Overheard this Week

Words fascinates me. I'm always listening to how people use speech in new, interesting, and often incorrect ways. When I catch myself making errors it's not as much fun. Just me being hypocritically honest.

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Repeat offenders get bumped to the front of the list. I've heard this one used on at least three separate occasions.

"I give good advices."

No it's not a typo.

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A young single friend was describing his latest girlfriend to me. Not that I was really interested. I was just being polite as I pretended to listen to him. It's the socially correct sort of thing to do when your not as excited about a subject as buddy, but you don't want to be a jerk and just tell them your don't really give a damn.

"She half German, half Italian and half Chinese!"

I slowly turned away from him snickering.

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I learned a new word listening to NPR this week. That happens a lot when I listen to NPR--learning a new word that is. 'Glocal' is created by combining global and local.

Learning this new word left me with a tingling feeling all over. It was a rather exciting moment. Then the light turned green and I pulled away from the stoplight. But a few miles down the road, as my mind was still trying to index and sort this new work I came to a conclusion. Global is all encompassing, while local is specific. So 'glocal' describes what exactly? I'm still not sure.

Is this how new words are created? Shesh, what a messy and random process.

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More clever stuff should have been entered here, but I lost interest in writing any more today.