Superfluous
Being more than enough, excessive, and this
included my pronunciation of super –flu –ous , as opposed to sue perf-e- less , in fact when the word
surfaced in my mind I actually referred to it by the first pronunciation and
later corrected it in my mind to the second pronunciation although the spelling
never changed, as I have had issues with this word before to an excessive
amount. Hope you followed all that. Sorry folks these last couples of blogs
haven’t been for you, instead for me as I grapple with some vocabulary issues
here running rampant in my head.
Conflagration
was a word I had used before successfully, as no one actually said I used it
wrong, and this was before the last blog, or readership was low and you just
passed over it. Or mostly I would like to believe you were trying to find out the
real meaning of what I was trying to say. It was in an earlier blog and may
have been in “Trip to Sequoia,” as Guy and Darla are driving through the
firestorm in the Road Warrior. I just remember using it and checking it out through
the dictionary and out of that encounter that I may have come up on it.
Then out of
the blue a conflagration of burning desire to come up with a new blog after my
World Trade piece was set to mold forever in the confines of the digital palace
which it now resides in, that it hit me as I was starting to write and
conflagration came out of nowhere. I checked it out and sure enough wrote the
blog conflagration.
So yesterday I saw
on an ad from a personal site of a woman who needed to be brusque about what
she wanted.
Now I had an
idea of what brusque meant and when I heard it I needed to make sure of the
pronunciation and to assure that my definition of brusque matched hers and it did, as if all that matters to you as one superfluous or brusque sounds like
another superfluous and brusque, if you are reading it. But when you talk to yourself and
pronounce these words you sure don’t want to sound like a frigging idiot, as it
kind of lowers your self-esteem. So pronunciation is obviously an OCD- obsessive
compulsive disorder, issue with me. Some people collect, cars, thimbles, cats,
and I collect words and at scary times like this, I just climb down a dusty
cobwebbed hallway in the back of my mind that is stacked to the ceiling with a
multitude of verbs and adjectives and dust one off and bring it back out to the
light and try and use it again in some superfluous way. Just the mere mention
of brusque invoked in me a creative desire to possibly incorporate it into my
blog also and hence yesterday’s blog about brusque.
So out of
conflagration of events that led to this brusque confession of how I write and
what really drives me you will find not anything of it being purpose driven, as
it is really no big thing. A superfluous chain of events built on chance and
happenstance. I take a simple topic and build on it as if I actually might have
planned a few of these blogs. There is no outline, just an idea. Sometimes it works,
and then sometimes you never know.
Today I promised
to move on as my title suggests as this word association thing is getting a bit
superfluous or is it superfluous at this point. Instead I started going there
again in my mind and at one point I figured I would copy it on to a post it and
then save it for a future blog. Much the same as I saved my World Trade blog. Truth
is I can never find that stuff when I am looking for ideas to write and so I figured
I would write a few lines and the next thing you know I am here , writing and
telling you the reader all I have to say about these words and promise you to
move on tomorrow to a new subject . So in some superfluous way I managed to explain,
the why and how, now I need to sum up. The end.
or is it?
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