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Username: 2c2bmore
Post Number: 43
Registered: 5-2006
Posted From: 66.170.157.240
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 - 1:40 pm: | 
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Curious but true, our fixation on food, goes beyond the almost daily 'evil' reports coming out of todays medical research labs.
Mind you the Sleeper curve mindset hopes to slow down the bandwagon somewhat.
A teacher/writer by the name of Lisa Goldberg wrote an article called a Slice of Life, in
the Saturday Star the other weekend. I thought you'd find it interesting.I've beefed it up a bit and passing it on to you is designed purely for informational entertainment.
"What does corney mean? asked an ESL student. (She helps intigrate newcomers with
the communication skills for life in Canada.)
"As I struggled to come up with a workable definition, [and that's easier said than done,]
, another student asked if it meant the same as cheesy , a word he had heard on TV."
"This lead to the question about the Big Apple- which is not to be confused with being a
BAD apple.
She's gets questions like this all the time, she says.
"The English vocabulary with its abundance of idioms and slang is quite often bewildering to
outsiders of street lingo- and after a recent barrage of questions I began to realize just how
much we rely on food to help us explain things."
"As we found ourselves immersed in this discovery, the blackboard was quickly covered with
EDIBLE, verbs, nouns, and adjectives."
"VERBS alone could fill a dozen pages".
EGs; "You can egg someone on, or butter someone up. You can milk a person or a situation.
You can fudge something. You can stew over something. You can take something with a grain
of salt while you cook the books. You can pepper a conversation with idioms. You can use your
noodle, or ride the gravy train.You can do doughnuts with your muscle car in the parking lot.
You might have your cake and eat it too but you can easily bite off more than you can chew.
Some people like to chew the fat or find themselves simply eating their words. And then,if you're
not fed up at that point you might decide you have to eat crow."
"Many food words, particularily nouns find themselves describing people.If you're tall and skinny
they might call you a stringbean. An adored child is the apple of his mother's eye. A ham is a
bad actor who's fowl language might be -sour grapes, at family gatherings.
An egghead is an intellectual. A good egg is not the same as an egghead nor is a bad apple
something you can take back to the store.
A couch potato is someone who finds difficulty in removing him/herself from the couch while the
BIG cheeze probably always has someone else make the coffee."
"Then there are the ADJECTIVES;
Some are easy enough ... syrupy?
How do you keep from scratching your head 'though with the idea that fishy can mean suspicious
and chicken means scared or cowardly.
Tell them how consuming certain oxidents can leave you fried or baked - (but not half baked, that's
something else entirely.) Oh, on the subject of baking? When asked the meaning of someone telling
them that they had nice buns?
Desuade them from thinking that "Nice rolls" is a workable synonym for it.
"No doubt about it' the English language, albeit richly expressive comes with its somewhat quirky
vocabulary and it's a tough nut to crack. In fact it's just no piece of cake ...
certainly not everyones cup of tea.
"If it weren't for these occasional moments of hilarity, I'd surely go nuts, or bananas or something."
To quote one torturously miss-quoted axiom,
"...THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING!"
And remember ... The best way to ease the anxity of being overweight is to stay off the scales |