I was sitting up last night, playing Amateur Surgeon on adult swim (great game!), and for some reason unknown to me heard the phrase “long time” followed by “milk bone.”
So for my own amusement I’m going to trace how I got from one to the other. Read the rest of this entry »
So I was talking to my mother about this new blog of mine. I sent her the address the other night and she read the whole thing. She started talking about reading my posts on the word thing I do in my head. The following conversation then happened (more or less): Read the rest of this entry »
Since I vowed to start keeping track of my word stuff, here’s one that I was just doing in my head.
“To pull them” turns into “Be dell fun”
The l stays, says I. And everything else is a CV cluster (consonant, vowel) and there is a bit of repetition here. Without mentioning long or short, the clusters are tu, pu, de. Read the rest of this entry »
For the first time ever, I am going to attempt to explain what the hell it is I do in my head. Let’s start at the beginning: I used to count letters in words. All the time. First I counted steps, and then when I got over that I counted letters in words and phrases. After I counted them, I would subdivide them (EVENLY! It only counts if it’s evenly!) into new syllables and then listen to the new syllables. This worked up into longer words and phrases and I’m just saying I probably walked around 2nd grade with a constipated look on my face as I tried to keep track of the letters. Read the rest of this entry »
