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I really like the word multiplicity. There's an elegance to it.
Tonight I'm going to write about the dying sounds of cheerios before they sponge up all the milk and become gooshies rather than the crunchy honey lifesavers of love. It's a tiny sound, nobody really hears it unless they listen up really close to their cereal bowl. But if you do, it's the most tragically beautiful sound in the world- due to the fact of what it is and also due to the fact of the higher-frequency a sound is, the more pitiable it becomes. just as low frequency sound waves are massive, majestic, and mind-bending (really! look it up!), high frequency waves are tiny, newborn, mewling little things that beg us for our alms like urchins in a victorian alley. If LF sounds are Rocs, giants, and dragons, than HF sounds are pixies, gnomes and brownies, all riding spiders and making mischief.
Now that we're done with the science lesson, I'd like to point out something: the life of a cheerio is actually a really hard one when you think about it. It's made from grains and shaped into it's characteristic lifesaver shape, and then, before it has the chance to breathe it's pouring with thousands of it's siblings, cousins and relatives into the infinitely portable gulag we call a cereal box, it's only respite being it's inevitable destruction. Again, why their barely noticeable death rattle before they succumb to drowning in an ocean of bovine byproducts is so, so very sad.
In other news, French is an incredibly misogynistic language. This all has to do with the multiple articles in French. If it's a multiplicity of females (or female nouns) it's elles. The multiple article of males or male nouns is ils. However, the multiplicity of neutered nouns or males and females is ils, as well. So their could be a crowd of ninety-nine females and one male and the term used would still be ils. German, on the other hand, places it's multiple article as die, which is also the article for females and female nouns (der being the male article and das the neuter). True equality would, of course, be to use the neuter form as the multiple article, but at least German is STRIKING A BLOW FOR WOMYN EVERYWHERE.
dorkyNow that we're done with the science lesson, I'd like to point out something: the life of a cheerio is actually a really hard one when you think about it. It's made from grains and shaped into it's characteristic lifesaver shape, and then, before it has the chance to breathe it's pouring with thousands of it's siblings, cousins and relatives into the infinitely portable gulag we call a cereal box, it's only respite being it's inevitable destruction. Again, why their barely noticeable death rattle before they succumb to drowning in an ocean of bovine byproducts is so, so very sad.
In other news, French is an incredibly misogynistic language. This all has to do with the multiple articles in French. If it's a multiplicity of females (or female nouns) it's elles. The multiple article of males or male nouns is ils. However, the multiplicity of neutered nouns or males and females is ils, as well. So their could be a crowd of ninety-nine females and one male and the term used would still be ils. German, on the other hand, places it's multiple article as die, which is also the article for females and female nouns (der being the male article and das the neuter). True equality would, of course, be to use the neuter form as the multiple article, but at least German is STRIKING A BLOW FOR WOMYN EVERYWHERE.