The English language fascinates me.  I’m sure other languages would too but I really only know ‘Hola’, ‘Ciao’, ‘Lasagna’, and ‘Hasta La Vista, Baby’ so I don’t have that much to go on.  But the English language is pretty ding-dang interesting.  For example, did you ever notice that someone is a ‘danger to themselves and others’ but a ‘menace to society’?  No one is ever a ‘danger to society’ or a ‘menace to themselves’.  Of course, I’ve gone on before about ‘plummet’ in that you can only really ‘plummet to your death’.  Nobody ever plummeted off their chair in the caf or plummeted to their scratched up elbow.  Nope.  They plummet to their death.

And what’s up with ‘high heaven’ and how you can stink to it?  Or ‘two left feet’?  If someone with two left feet is super clumsy would the opposite be true?  Are the Olympic track teams loaded up with people that have ‘two right feet’?  Oh, and how about ‘battening down the hatches’?  I don’t think I’ve heard of anyone battening down anything else.  Have you?  Do you even have a hatch?  I know I don’t.  Well, ok, I have that one, but that’s a secret, k?

Why is Nellie always so nervous?  What makes McCoy so real?  Why are apple carts always getting upset?  And why the hell are smiles constantly being wiped off of people’s faces?

These are the thoughts that I woke up with this morning.  Thought I’d share.

You’re most welcome.