We're so bored in our cubicles today, we're going to collectively amuse ourselves by:
b) teaching those new words to our coworkers.
Look around you. (Well, poke your head out of your cube and glance up and down the hallway.) These people need shaking up. They need to be challenged intellectually. And they especially need a few new descriptive words.
Start with the 10 best foreign words the English language needs, pick a good word and start using it in sentences. (I like the last one on the list - desenrascano - which is Portuguese for "pulling a MacGuyver.")
After you've casually dropped the word into conversation three or four times, one of your coworkers may say, "That's Portuguese, right? Are you sure you're pronouncing it correctly?" He/she is obviously not going to respond to your efforts to edify the office. In the future, avoid this coworker. Keep working on the others. Just don't become a backpfeifengesicht.
Would passing off the lyrics to the theme of "St. Elmos Fire" in faux-Sanskrit pass muster for this exercise? Given that they make little sense in English, ancient Indian devotional language seems appropriate.
Not to mention that the song ROCKS! In any tongue!
Posted by: Anthony | April 22, 2009 at 08:25 AM
St. Elmo's Fire? Really? Boy, I once joked that you stopped listening to new music in protest the day Van Halen broke up; now I think I was more right than I realized at the time.
Posted by: pam | April 22, 2009 at 09:53 AM
I stopped listening to "new music" when The Apples in Stereo refused to cut a CD in 7.1 Surround.
So I'm to assume that the year long (or longer as I recall) period where you and Dietrich-Fischer Jr had my 7-Disc Rhino set of the 80s greatest hits was spent totally NOT LISTENING to any of the songs in the collection, inlcuding, obviously, the theme to St. Elmo's Fire??
And who said that van Halen broke up? LIES, I tell you, LIES!!!
Posted by: Anthony | April 22, 2009 at 11:05 AM