Hi Josh! More language fun: reek is smelly and wreak is havoc-related. "Reak" is unfortunately not a real word, unless it means both smelly and destructive... which it could!
Excellent, this is wonderful. Reminds me of the time I released a small EP album with an airplane on the cover, I thought it would be artistic and witty to name the album corresponding to the altitude planes generally fly at. I looked up the information and then named the album "The Window Seat 10,326 miles off the ground". I printed and distributed copies. A few weeks later, after playing a show, a member of the audience while pointing to the album cover asked me if I intended to orbit the moon, soaring at such an altitude as that. I looked at him questioningly, then slowly began to realize the "gravity" of my mistake. Somehow I mistook feet for miles. I responded with great laughter, a reddened face, and a humbled heart. Apparently I had shot for the moon, while setting my sights on a much lower plane. A guilty department of the male gender I suppose. However I am grateful you have given me yet another path out, another opportunity to shoot for the moon, another opportunity to laugh and be rather red in the face exposing and simultaneously overlooking my extreme shortcomings in education. So it is, a new word is born. Reak: Smelly and Havoc related.
Hi Josh! More language fun: reek is smelly and wreak is havoc-related. "Reak" is unfortunately not a real word, unless it means both smelly and destructive... which it could!
ReplyDeleteExcellent, this is wonderful. Reminds me of the time I released a small EP album with an airplane on the cover, I thought it would be artistic and witty to name the album corresponding to the altitude planes generally fly at. I looked up the information and then named the album "The Window Seat 10,326 miles off the ground". I printed and distributed copies. A few weeks later, after playing a show, a member of the audience while pointing to the album cover asked me if I intended to orbit the moon, soaring at such an altitude as that. I looked at him questioningly, then slowly began to realize the "gravity" of my mistake. Somehow I mistook feet for miles. I responded with great laughter, a reddened face, and a humbled heart. Apparently I had shot for the moon, while setting my sights on a much lower plane. A guilty department of the male gender I suppose. However I am grateful you have given me yet another path out, another opportunity to shoot for the moon, another opportunity to laugh and be rather red in the face exposing and simultaneously overlooking my extreme shortcomings in education. So it is, a new word is born. Reak: Smelly and Havoc related.
ReplyDeleteWay to keep it optimistic, friend!
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