Sunday, January 22, 2006

People vs Persons

People
n. pl.
ples for 2

persons indefinitely or collectively
the body of persons who constitute a group by virtue of a common culture
the persons of any particular group or number

strange definition for a strange word.

while onomotopoeia is my favourite word in the English Language, not because of its definition, but because the way it feels and sounds when you pronounce it. To speak onomotopoeia you need ennunciation, yet it flows off the tongue.

people, on the other hand, is an ugly sounding word.
pee pull. strange.
what are pee pull?
persons

person
n
a human being
the individual personality of a human being
the body of a living human being
a human being or other entity, as a corporation, recognized by law as having rights and duties.
a grammatical category applied esp. to pronouns and verbs, used to distinguish between the speaker, the person addressed, and the people r things spoken about, - idiom.
in person - in one's on bodily presence.

person or persons sounds better than people.
I'm going to make a concentrated effort to replace the word people with persons as much as possible.

pee pull
per sons

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i'm throwing some yiddish isms in here. just got a great book. Yiddish is almost a dead language, yet so full of feeling.

farmisht - mixed up emotionally.
but farmisht implies so much more - it is really untranslatable.
when you are farmisht, you are so beside yourself that reason is impossible.
farmisht. (in my family dialect you didn't pronounce the r so it sounded like famisht and there is also flablunged and fakrempt. flabunged connotates confusion, and fakrempt connotates messy. Yiddish words are german language based written with the hebrew letters.
Yiddish was the spoken language, as was Aramaic, whilst Hebrew was not a spoken language.

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i like playing with the dictionaries.
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1 Comments:

Blogger Shaggy said...

In first, great... Well written. I was with you on this one all the way.

Have a good one.

9:10 AM  

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