Currently watching: The White Feather (Foyle's War)
My siblings have taken up Scrabble. Brother #3 in particular; everyone else got sick of the game after a few days, so he wages epic battles of Marshall vs. Marshall. I have taken over the couch as my homework headquarters, so I sit there listening to CBC Radio 2 and watching the excitement. It beats graphing exponential functions, anyhow.
But is this ordinary Scrabble? No. Oh, no.
My siblings have taken up Scrabble. Brother #3 in particular; everyone else got sick of the game after a few days, so he wages epic battles of Marshall vs. Marshall. I have taken over the couch as my homework headquarters, so I sit there listening to CBC Radio 2 and watching the excitement. It beats graphing exponential functions, anyhow.
But is this ordinary Scrabble? No. Oh, no.
"'Oxgole?' That's not a word."
"It is in this game. It means "Hi, dude."
"What about 'skaq'?"
"That's a sort of food. Really spicy. Ugh. A Q, a K, triple word score, sixty more points!"
"And 'Toca'?"
"That's a town in Marshalland. On the Marshall Islands. Of course."
"Er—of course. 'Rtenjr'?"
Marshall gives me a look of despair. "That spells 'janitor.'"
Think of all that you're missing by limiting yourself to words that happen to be available in the dictionary. How stifling of all natural creativity. Tragic.
Ah! This is hilarious, and the pictures are the perfect accompaniment.
ReplyDeleteHysterical!:-) Oh, the joy of having younger brothers and sisters around you all the time. They do make life just THAT much more comical:-). Only today I was reviewing my French explorers with Mom, and my sister walks up...."Jakwes Carteer? Oh, I know ALL about him!" (Enough to make a Frenchman roll over in his GRAVE, maybe! lol. Not to mention that my sister is 12!!)
ReplyDeleteLoved the pictures too. Yes, we INTPs are a dangerous generation. (Aside, do you bite too? Or am I the only one who uses that as my major defense mechanism???) lol. We definately are MAD - I didn't quite get a dose of the science part of it. Music took over in that capacity. And history. Maybe we're just KNOWLEDGE mad.
Anyways, wonderful post!:-)
Nastya
*bursts out laughing*
ReplyDeleteThat was highly comical and epochal and... Indeed. The pictures are perfect too.
My brothers are playing air soccer. "We have a dead ball." "Do we atleast have a guy that's not stupid?!"
:D Love em, Aly! :)
ReplyDeleteHaha, that's great! Wouldn't want to stifle creativity and damage self-esteem in young children, now would we?
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! I love the pictures.
ReplyDeleteNo, indeed, let us ever be non-stifling!!! *snickers at the pictures* So much for dictionaries. They're nice...to a point. But words like fobbish and randominity would never have been created had someone told me during an infrequent Scrabble game that I could NOT and was NOT capable of making up me own words.
ReplyDeleteOh, someone'd asked Momsie her opinion on whether or not reading books aloud to young children was important; I think it's nearly vital, it creates a bond between the reader and the listener, and makes memories, that sort of thing. I might not have become a writer had I not been read aloud to.
Hmm...good idea, I should do that for titles. But most likely my recent web history-thingy would throw my Reader into "deep and sudden shock", it'll have to be censored. >:-D
Have you ever read "Till we have Faces"? Awesome book! A few more sensual references than one would expect in a Lewis novel, but awesome nontheless.
I agree that old does not = good, per se, but the general standard of literature is failing right along with the economy. Those poor writers actually being published nowadays will have to fight harder and harder to go against the set standard for the written word...
[/is now off soapbox]
God bless,
~PIP~
Haha! Sounds like my family!
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