Comedy
Barnacles and vowels12.14.00: Sometimes I wonder if barnacles tell whales stories. I can just picture the barnacles hanging out near the whale's head, telling it about how it was once on a ship that sank, or of this one really cool other barnacle that it once saw but never said "hi" to. I mean, they say that barnacles just live on whales, but don't cause any harm nor good. I could easily see how the barnacles could tell the whales stories, and then just not tell us about it. I mean, come on, how else can whales be so wise?12.14.00: I've actually been thinking about this one for a LONG time... It's a big thought, so I don't know if I will get it all down in just one sitting. But, I have thought that it would be neat, and more efficient, if we were to eliminate most vowels from written language. If you think about it, you don't really need them in all instances. With just a few basic rules, we could eliminate having to add all those perfunctory "e's" and "a's" that seem so pedestrian. The basic theory is that words are just links to certain concepts in our minds, and that it really doesn't matter what form the word takes on, just so long as it conjures up that specific image or meaning. For example, when you see the word "conflagration," you probably think of a very clear image in your mind that goes along with the word's denotation. Now, imagine that you had just seen the word "conflgrtn" in a sentence. Granted, just seening "conflgrtn" doesn't really help to bring about the thought of a burning inferno, but imagine if you had seen the word in a sentence that includes some contextual references, such as "we were runnng away frm th conflgrtn. (we were running away from the conflagration)" I don't know about you, but I picture two scared children running away from a burning building.A better example is "brkfst." I think most can just look at those letters alone and see the word behind it: breakfast. Cutting the vowels out of this word makes it just over half as many letters as before. If we could do that will just a handful of words in each sentence, think of all the time we would save.