Posted May 13, 2022

It's The Journey That Counts!
Life's journey is not to arrive safely at the grave in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, "Wow! What a ride!"
Anna-Grams
​● Never paint your entire house at one time! It's been a minor disaster. A person accumulates so much (that had to be moved) in 22 years in the same house.
  Weekly Anagrams  ● A free lunch = Chef: "Unreal!" ~ Mike Tully (2008)

● A trip down memory lane = No time warp, only dream. ~ Mike Mesterton-Gibbons (2012)

● "Diapers and politicians should be changed often -- both for the same reason." = Unappealing fecal odor, bad scent, and therefore booed. No sham - shit is shit!
~ Aronas Pinchas (2012)

Weekly Quotes 
● “At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.” ~ Gore Vidal

● “Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.” ~ Ulysses S. Grant

● “Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” ~ Adam Smith

● “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” ~ Helen Keller
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Weekly Literary Term
HYPERBATON
​DEFINITION
Hyperbation is a figure of speech in which the typical, natural order of words is changed as certain words are moved out of order. The word hyperbaton is derived from the Greek phrase hyperbatos meaning “transposed” or “inverted.” Although the device can be used in literary text and particularly in dialogue, it is most often found in poetry.

 EXAMPLES
Hyperbaton can be dramatic or strange or it can be subtle and poetic.
● Example 1
“Sweet, she was.”‒ In changing “She was sweet” to “Sweet, she was,” the writer emphasizes sweetness in a unique hyperbatonic sentence structure.
● Example 2
“Ever so lost and confused, I felt just then” ‒ Similar to example 1 above, this hyperbaton emphasizes lostness and confusion.
● Example 3
“Always with you it cannot be done. You do nothing that I say. You must unlearn what you have learned. Try not! Do. Or do not. There is no try.” In this scene from Star Wars, “It always cannot be done with you” is turned into a hyperbatonic phrase. “Don’t try!” becomes “Try not!” Yoda’s strange way of speaking gives him a unique way of speaking that highlights his wisdom.

THE IMPORTANCE OF USING HYPERBATON
Hyperbaton is unique device that allows writers to bypass typical grammatical expectations and rules in order to create sentences and phrases that are more complex, intriguing, and challenging for the reader. This can be as complicated as a sentence entirely rewritten and jumbled or as simple as the movement of one adjective or noun.

RELATED TERMS
● Anastrophe
Anastrophe is a specific type of hyperbaton in which the adjective appears after the noun rather than before it. Here are a few examples of anastrophe:
  ●Past time à time past
  ●She was gracious à Gracious, she was
  ●He was hurried à Hurried, he was.

● Tsmesis
Tsmesis also involves unique and typically grammatically incorrect constructions. Tsmesis is the separation of a word into numerous words in order to emphasize the idea. Here are a few examples of tsmesis:
  ●Impossible à Possible.
  ●I disagree à I dis agree.
  ●Never à Ne! ver!

Like hyperbaton and anastrophe, Tsmesis shows that breaking the rules can sometimes create interesting and exciting formations.

Sources: With some variations, trimming, additions, and deletions, this is an almost word-for-word quote from: https://literaryterms.net/hyperbaton/










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​Observation Days 
​May is:
​● International Respect for
   Chickens Month
● ALS Awareness Month
● Asthma / Alergy Awareness
   Month
● Arthritis Awareness Month
● Better Sleep Awareness Month
● Better Speech and Hearing
   Awareness Month
● Borderline Personality
   Disorder Awareness Month
● Brain Tumor Awareness Month
● Cystic fibrosis  Awareness
   Month 
The Coming Week is:
● ME/CFS Awareness Week
● Williams Syndrome Awareness
   Week
May 13 is: 
● Friday the 13th (the only one
   in 2022)
● National Crouton Day
● National Frog Jumping Day
● National Apple Pie Day
● National Fruit Cocktail Day
● Great Prayer Day

​Words To Expand Your Vocabulary
New Dictionary Words in 2022
● rebirding (n) = the process of helping to return an environment to its natural state by bringing back birds that used to live there.
● climate doomism (n) =
The belief that climate change is now irreversible and that there is no point making any effort to stop it getting any worse.
● water neutrality (n) = the principle that the total amount of water used in an area after new houses, shops, etc. have been built must not be more than the amount used in the same area previously
● folx (n) = “folks” when used to explicitly signal the used especially inclusion of groups commonly marginalized. A new way to spell an old word (Folks meaning people in general). Folx exists only in written form. 

● Second Gentleman 
(n) = the husband or male partner of a vice president or second in command of a country or jurisdiction. 

Sources:
https://www.rd.com/list/new-words-dictionary/?msclkid=01eaf80fcfe211ecbbdb7cd082528a52https://www.rd.com/list/new-words-dictionary/?msclkid=01eaf80fcfe211ecbbdb7cd082528a52
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2022/04/18/new-words-18-april-2022/?msclkid=aa64bd9acfe511ec9b9c5c911022233e