Amber and Scott: Radvent Day 19: Speaking

Irony is: writing about "speaking" when I've lost my voice again. My poor larynx.
I could go on and on about my larynx, which just can't seem to catch a break ... but I won't.

I do have a couple of interesting items to mention regarding this topic.

Say what you?ve been meaning to say.

Today I'm going to tell someone how much I want to be in their life again (after essentially being absent for the last few months). I'm going to tell someone else how much I want to shoot their show again. And I'm going to tell a third person my reservations about becoming involved with their show again. People deserve to know what I'm thinking; silence isn't always golden.

Think about the way you use language.
I was thinking yesterday on the bus about how I want my words to be more intentional in 2013. I have a ?habit of blathering on about everything and anything, and I want my words to be more meaningful and purposeful next year. I know there's probably only so much I can stem the tide of my babbling, but as I am so fond of mentioning ... if I don't try, I'll never know what I'm capable of.

Of course, now that I've said that, I don't want to say any more, because once I start going down that?road, almost all communication seems frivolous.

Add something to your vocabulary.

I checked my email right after reading this to find a truly bizarre word of the day. I've subscribed to the Dictionary.com word of the day for ... it seems like the better part of 15 years, though I'm not really sure if that's true or not. Anyway, sometimes it's more useful, and sometimes it's ... not. Today's word could go either way, actually, so I guess that's a good thing (and also ... up to me).

Today's word of the day is a linguistics term: antepenultimate.

Word of the Day for?Friday, December 28, 2012

antepenultimate?\an-tee-pi-NUHL-tuh-mit\,?adjective:

1.?Third from the end.
2.?Of or pertaining to an antepenult.

noun:
1.?An antepenult.

When I looked up "antepenultimate" online, I eventually got to some more interesting information:?In linguistics, the ultima is the last syllable of a word, the penult is the next-to-last syllable, and the antepenult is third-from-last syllable. In a word of three syllables, the names of the syllables are antepenult-penult-ultima." (Souce: Wikipedia).

So there you have it. The more you know?

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I'm participating in Radvent this year via the ever-awesome?Princess Lasertron, and you should too!

Source: http://marriedcatpeople.blogspot.com/2012/12/radvent-day-19-speaking.html

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