Saturday, January 7, 2017

Which Reminds Me

I remember hearing a very learned person talking about how the Spanish language is maybe 40 percent rooted in the Arabic. Thus we see that the word "el" which means a deity or Lord in the Hebrew or Arabic Semitic languages, in Spanish is a simple but indispensable article of speech. How can we indicate the thing without the preceding article? Yes, I always find it interesting to read about these interesting language things. If I could do college over again perhaps linguistics would have been a college major to consider, but never mind. I am fluent in two languages so I am able to appreciate some of these language anomalies even just from general reading, unlike you who have only one language to speak of. Oh, the language jokes that we used to tell, not that one, but the other ones that were all about the occasionally awkward and humorous moments that sometimes arise when one is learning a new language and is grasping for the right word and somehow comes up with the wrong word, or at least one that is misunderstood by the hearer. Strange how we no longer tell or even remember those funny language jokes that we used to tell. With all these dreary Coneheads running around randomly shooting at people, it becomes dangerous to even open one's mouth in regards to these matters. And why are we allowing them to do that? Do they imagine that this is the Faulklands Island War and that they are just going to evict us from our houses with so little resistance from the mightiest country on the planet? What is an army for if these wimpy Coneheads can just trample underfoot we, the citizens of the United States of America? I feel like the Apostle Paul when I  tell you that some people pay big money for their U.S. citizenship but mine is a natural born thing. Either way, a U.S. citizen is a U.S. citizen. But of course the Apostle Paul was Roman citizen, which was the superpower of his day, a providential circumstance.