Comments on: some missing words http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/07/13/some-missing-words/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:51:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: susan morrison (garden-chick) http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/07/13/some-missing-words/comment-page-1/#comment-3030 susan morrison (garden-chick) Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:07:43 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=6631#comment-3030 I don't know exactly how to comment on this one. My love affair with words began with the very first books I could barely sound out as a toddler. Words like violets, melons and cowslips fire a child's imagination. Disappointing. I don’t know exactly how to comment on this one. My love affair with words began with the very first books I could barely sound out as a toddler. Words like violets, melons and cowslips fire a child’s imagination.

Disappointing.

]]> By: lostlandscape http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/07/13/some-missing-words/comment-page-1/#comment-3029 lostlandscape Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:51:53 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=6631#comment-3029 Ryan, it's yet another symptom of our increasingly distanced stance from nature. I'm generally a pacifist, but I'm ready to defend "melon" and "tulip." Tina, or they could make the print smaller. It's mainly oldsters like me that have a problem with little words. Greg, yah. I'd have thunk that the culture of where Oxford is located would be more symptomatic towards words for plants than--I don't know--Wasilla? It's up to us to keep these good words alive! Ryan, it’s yet another symptom of our increasingly distanced stance from nature. I’m generally a pacifist, but I’m ready to defend “melon” and “tulip.”

Tina, or they could make the print smaller. It’s mainly oldsters like me that have a problem with little words.

Greg, yah. I’d have thunk that the culture of where Oxford is located would be more symptomatic towards words for plants than–I don’t know–Wasilla? It’s up to us to keep these good words alive!

]]> By: Greg http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/07/13/some-missing-words/comment-page-1/#comment-3024 Greg Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:06:38 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=6631#comment-3024 Wow, that's painful. I'd expect a little better from the folks at Oxford. And I guess I'd be disappointed. Sounds like we garden bloggers have our work cut out for us, then, eh? Wow, that’s painful. I’d expect a little better from the folks at Oxford. And I guess I’d be disappointed. Sounds like we garden bloggers have our work cut out for us, then, eh?

]]> By: tina http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/07/13/some-missing-words/comment-page-1/#comment-3022 tina Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:58:43 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=6631#comment-3022 That's pretty messed up. No, I don't think the words cease to exist but why wouldn't they just make the dictionary larger? That’s pretty messed up. No, I don’t think the words cease to exist but why wouldn’t they just make the dictionary larger?

]]> By: Ryan http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/07/13/some-missing-words/comment-page-1/#comment-3020 Ryan Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:18:16 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=6631#comment-3020 It's rather a sad state of affairs isn't it?! I'm with you on this one. I feel rather disturbed that the fundamentals of life are being overridden by such trivial things as 'chat rooms'! With the recent government backed health promotion campaigns you would think that a melon was an important part of any child's education. Quite saddening really. Ryan It’s rather a sad state of affairs isn’t it?!

I’m with you on this one. I feel rather disturbed that the fundamentals of life are being overridden by such trivial things as ‘chat rooms’! With the recent government backed health promotion campaigns you would think that a melon was an important part of any child’s education.

Quite saddening really.

Ryan

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