This is coming up on Saturday week. In preparation we dug out our wedding album (which did involve some actual excavation) and found that it finished with photos of two of us sleeping rough in Boulogne at the end of our honeymoon (don’t ask – maybe I’ll tell the story some other time).
I also tried on my wedding dress (blue silk, not traditional) and found that I could just get into it.
Private language
Mark and I went through a phase of inventing our own words, like imagining typos and referring to “our welding”. Here are some examples:
sping - something so clean that it shines
mursum - a word used to comfort someone who is unreasonably upset
tacob – thank you
ningok -don’t mention it
Mar brought a couple more with him to this lexicon:
nistled – being very young in a cold place
neonaxadren – a drug or hormone (this one came to him in a dream)
Move over Dr Johnson!
Incidentally, have you read Douglas Adams and John Lloyd’s Meaning of Liff? lib.ru/ADAMS/liff.txt
They take place names all over the world and make up words to go with them.
Example:
Scraptoft - a few strands of hair combed over a bald man’s head
Got to go – etymology waits for no woman
Neither does breakfast
I’m also a big fan of Douglas Adams. Read all his books. Perhaps you will enjoy reading some of my science fiction stories: http://scifiwriter.wordpress.com/ Please let me know what you think.
Comment by Peter Grant — August 11, 2008 @ 7:09 am |