Today, i saw a friend not once but twice. She looks veri familiar but i cant remember where i known her from... When i saw her for the first time, i was quite bothered that i cant remember where i got to know her, n much less her name.. I couldnt link her to any of the people who entered my life before. But after a while, i gave up... went back to trying to understand DNA cloning... lol..
Then, during the later part of the day, i saw the same girl in ARTS again. fated ya.. haha. So, i was determine to recall at least where i got to know her from rite?? By elimination method, at last i remembered.. a friend i got to know when i went back to nuh to work during my 2nd stint. But still cant remember her name la. paiseh.
well, wats in a name?? i read from somewhere before. Tat a name is created for something if one uses it often enough and is able to influence others to start using it... Wat do you call rain that hits on the window?? Is there a special name for it?? no rite? not currently... but if i decided to call it 'pitter patter pit'. And if i am determined enough to say,' hey! look at that pitter patter pit..' to every stranger i see (well, if they don tink that i'm mad) whenever there's rain, who knows, mayb a few months mayb a few years later, i would have fans for 'pitter patter pit'. =p
Otherwise, how do u think the words, 'webcast' , 'negative marking', 'repeat again' and 'tucking out of shirt' came about?? Negative marking??? wats that? Actually it doesnt make sense at all.. Marking is an act, n yet we are negating it.. Imagining saying negative running... Shld i run backward for that instead? Or mayb i shldnt even bothering running at all.. LOL..
Repeat again?? Huh? repeat means to do another time, with 'again', shld i now repeat once or twice?? *scratch head*
And lastly, school students' favourite phase, 'tucking out'.. Tucking is an act where u put something in, so how can u 'out' it?? See!! Some of these words doesnt make sense at all yet we hear them being used all the time... so.... maybe there's realli hope for pitter patter pit. =p
3 comments:
What's in a name? A lot.
This was my first paper that I wrote on last year. My very first paper.
Well, in a name, you have sounds that are produced but cease to exist once the utterance has completed. In that sense, it does not live on, but only as a vague memory so that sometimes, you can't really remember, even the name!
Names are arbritrary. Their consonants and vowels that produce meaning have no relation to the actual semantics of the word itself. Why is it that way? Well, that's a tough question to be solved by the linguist.
I'm no linguist. Just a human who experiences lapses in memory when I see a person and forget their name. Or even points of enlightenment when the name rings on in my head.
Names... Haha, don't worry, I remember some things so well that I'll never forget them. Which explains why I keep on visiting your blog.
hey shaun, was reading ur comment n thinking wat has ur uni done to u.. till i read ur last paragraph... k u r still shaun-y.. lol.. i also read urs k!! jia you!!!
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