What does the “knee-jerk” part of the phrase “knee-jerk liberal refer to? Or, in other words, what is a liberal like myself supposedly jerking her knees about?
It makes me imagine a form of folk dance with lots of bouncing involved. And little bands of bells around the ankles to jingle while those knees are doing [...]
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I was just wondering:
Posted in deep thoughts, tagged folk dance, knee-jerk liberals, language, liberal, meanings, phrases on November 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
just the sounds
Posted in deep thoughts, tagged language, shoes, sign, sounds, words on September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I know that these are just the names of shoes, but I was rather attracted to the rich sounds of the language on this sign when I walked past it this afternoon. So many nice vowels. Ooooloooo. Uuugg. Uurth. Booooots. I guess reading a lot of poetry trains you to think like this? But I [...]
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