Sunday, September 23, 2007

Best. Baby. Ever.


Henry Calvin Marchionni was born on September 12 at 10a.m. weighing in at 8lbs. 2oz. The birth experience has planted seeds for several more posts, but for now, sleep deprivation prevails, and I shall sign off.

P.S.: His name has nothing to do with the Church of England or Swiss reformers :)

Saturday, September 08, 2007

Son of Ecclesiastes 6:11

Sometimes you just need to get things off your chest. I think blogs are the perfect forum for such chest-getting-offing. You can technically say that you've communicated something of your thoughts or feelings, but you get the risk-free, consequence-free anonymity that has made the Internet what it is today.

I therefore give you my second, (shorter), list of words in the Ecclesiastes 6:11 series. The category today: Words that I wish would come back into common use. (Forgive my simplistic definitions.)

1) Ere (= before). Say this outloud: "I should stop now before I make a fool of myself." Say the same sentence, replacing "before" with "ere." Sounds classier, no?
2) Whence (= from where). "I don't know where it came from." Awful, cumbersome English. "I don't know whence it came." Music.
3) Pate (= top of the head). Nothing fancy here. It's just much cleaner to say "my pate," than "the top of my head."

Anyone want to add to the list?