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It's helping me pick up on the meaning of words.
For example, sometimes Rebecca asks us to think laterally, instead of vertically.
Duncan just couldn't figure out what she was talking about, because he was hearing her asking him to think ladderaly.
He couldn't figure out how the metaphor of a ladder which goes upward, can help him think about something that goes in a line horizontally, as she was gesticulating with her arms that it did.
Just about every day somebody here discovers a word from the past, one that was not making sense, how it wasn't making sense because we didn't really know the meaning or spelling of the word. All this comes from us making the mistake of talking to each in our bubble, something we do more and more.
Arta
From Ria:
ReplyDeleteI read your blog post for today – words ... the richness of words, the mess that are words, the confusion .... And that is when we don’t mis-hear a word or mis-pronounce!
Euthanasia – I can never get rid of the thought that this is actually a church group in some third world country – ie Youth in Asia.
Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing!
But flexible and inflexible are opposites.
Row and Row – one is a noun, one is a verb – it is all about context.
Rows, rose and rose; two, to and too; house and houses, but louse and lice.
I could go on.
I am always amazed that we can actually communicate!