I like your face.

So in Canadian French, which is quite different to the French that they speak in France, the expression "I like your face", means that you like someone as a person/friend. Do we hve an expression like that in English? There are alot of things that we don't have words for in English. There is no word for the plural of you, so you have to put words together. I learned from watching a recent vlogbrothers video on YouTube that there is no word in Romanian that means "shallow", you have to say "not deep". There is no word in English for the ring of water that is left on a surface by a cold glass, but there is in Italian, is that strange?

I think that it is also strange that there is no opposite for some things, such as rolling. You could that argue that sitting is the opposite of standing and that white is the opposite of black, but what is the opposite of rolling? Does it need to have an opposite? The word for when there is no word for something when there should be is "lacuna", or you could call it "a lexical gap", but that is not a word.

Even though there is an absence of words when there should be, there are words out there that we really don't need to have, such as "Samba", it means to rub the sides of your belly button together....?????????????? The word "dibble" means to drink like a duck, are there actually people out there who study the science of duck drinking??? "Rigicide" means killing a king, who uses that word, do you know anybody who has killed a king recenty and told you about it???

Think things over, and tell me what you think of this.

Love Laura

New Beginnings.

I felt that I needed to post this to commerate my first and only and last September 1, 2010, how exciting!!!!

Love and one thyme things,
Laura

Let's make rainbow cakes and swing on swings.

So today I made the bestestest rainbow cake ever, it had 6 different colours and tasted great, I was super excited!!!! Before I did that I went back to my old elementary school to the playground. Since I have gone to school there they have added two new swing sets, a total of 10 new swings, it was terribly exciting. I swung so high that I felt a little sick. They also put in a new jumbo slide, it was very wet, but I slid on it anyway!!!!!! They put in these spinny things while I was still in school there and they are soooooo much fun. You can feel like you are spinning super fast, when you are really spinning really slowly, harding spinning, almost stopping. It is a little strange. I had a lot of fun today while I was babysitting, did I mention that I was babysitting???? Well I was, all day, and I thought that it would suck, but it was pretty great. And..... I get paid, even better.

Better go, I am being called to duty, basicly tea making, lots of work to do here....

Love Laura