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The girl who silenced the un.

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This young lady silenced the world for six minutes in 1992…

She is the daughter of someone who i see as a great leader for Canada… a hero, and a wise man, a kind man, and as i learned when i saw his daughter speaking with such passion and conviction… a great father. Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Allegory

From Greek allos meaning “other” and agora meaning gathering place (especially the marketplace). In times past, it was common to do one’s chatting at the marketplace. Some of the topics discussed were clandestine in nature and when people spoke about them, for fear of being punished, they would speak indirectly. That is to say, they would speak about one thing in such a way as to intimate the actual information to the listener. Thus, the persons discussing clandestine matters were said to be speaking of “other things” in the marketplace. Eventually the words joined and became associated with the act of speaking about one thing while meaning another.

Haptodysphoria;

It relates to the uncomfortable sensation one gets when touching soft things, like cotton balls or peach fuzz. I just love that a word exists for such a feeling; also, *I often experience haptodysphoria, and it’s nice to have a word to describe it.

(*no; “i” don’t really ‘often experience it’… but that is solely because i don’t like the feeling of cotton balls and generally avoid them..)

(you MUST visit “myfavoritewords” which allows people to write in their “favorite” words.. full of oddities, “Sesquipedalian” words, rarities, and generally a collection of words leaving you with an *all-overish(*it’s in the oed) feeling of giddiness… or nausea.