Monday, March 19, 2007
Squeeze Bag Teaser
My lovely wife has a way with words. Not content with the hundred-thousand or so words we have in the dictionary, she will often mix things up and make new ones. These are called Heatherwords. She also switches the names of common things around the house. These are called Jumbles. She sometimes creates whole sentences using a combination of Heatherwords and Jumbles, to very interesting effect. This is called Heathertalk.
Really, Heathertalk must be experienced firsthand to appreciate. Sometimes it's just a word substitution game, such as in the way she habitually calls the "dishwasher" the "microwave oven". But other times these words are employed to create new products like the "Squeeze Bag Teaser", which most other people would boringly call a "Tea Bag Squeezer".
This way of talking isn't just fun and informative, it's catchy. The other day as we drove by a house we are considering buying, I said:
"...and it has a small mow to lawn!".
She laughed hysterically and high-fived me, knowing full well that Heathertalk will soon be a national craze.
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..or at least a family trait! LOL!
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