Woids! Woids! Woids!

If, when you're all worn out, you're exhausted.....
........when you're bright and chipper and full of pep, are you hausted?

If taking a bad situation and making it worse is exacerbating it.....
.......is the process of improving the situation acerbating it?

If, when it's time for bed, you extinguish the candles......
.......when it's time for romance, do you tinguish them?

(Alternatively, if to stand out from the crowd is to be distinguished....
......is to be just like everyone else to be tinguished?)

If you drive 45 mph past a school, and are exceeding the speed limit....
......do you keep your mama from complaining from the back seat by ceeding?

Just more of the weird word wonderings I do when I'm overtired and underslept.... :)

Linguistic Oddity: Intermission

[I'm fascinated by language. I think I'm going to start interjecting the odd bit of wordplay in this blog; they'll all be labelled "language."]


Two words. Cognate equivalents. But they aren't even the same part of speech. What does that tell us about gender equality?

effeminate
emasculate

One's an adjective: effeminate is how something or someone *is*. No matter what you do---remove her ovaries and breasts, change her behavior to super-macho, you cannot "effeminate" a woman.

But the other is only a verb: see a rather butch female walking down the road, you don't say "Ooh, doesn't she strike you as a bit emasculate?"

Something to ponder.........