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thaigerstyle · 6 years

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Taste Buds

It occurred to her that she could remember her shopping list by priming herself from when the thought occurred to her that she needed to get them for groceries the next time. So she retraced her activities. She was chewing double mint gum as she was listening to Nine Inch Nails on the radio. It had just played after the Humpty Hump by Digital Underground. As she was chewing her gum, she remembered that she tried to pop a bubble but then it wouldn’t come to a precise Michaelangelican roundness, for she didn’t have the talent after last night, for she had previously had oral em-battlements after a verbal shouting match with her landlord.

So, she remembered the taste and smell of double mint. But nothing came to mind. So she thought that it might be the feeling that she needed. So she was at ease with the taste of the gum, but she was confused after listening to the contrast of sounds from the radio. It occurred to her that she was confused and didn’t know how to remember the groceries. Then, it hit her, all of a sudden. In her confused state, she was blank, and remembered a line that she needed to fill in on her shopping list. It was Oval-tine, of course. That’s what the fight with the landlord was all about. And she was chewing gum to remind herself that she also needed to pay rent. Of course!

#Refreshing #Remember #Bills #Groceries #Shopping #Blanks

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thaigerstyle · 6 years

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What’s in a name???

Ecseidgeraztshan Huudonnitte was a quiet and complacent boy. He was quite the skinny sprout. Running, jumping, playing with frogs, knocking down the bees nests, trying to outrun the baby crocodiles, all the things a little boy would do, while growing up in a “less developed country.” Ecseidgeraztshan Huudonnitte wasn’t just any ordinary boy though. Ecseidgeraztshan Huudonnitte was handicapped, lost in a battle to spell his name. This may sound strange, even to the modern man, but Ecseidgeraztshan Huudonnitte

was a handicapped boy in his youth because he had such a long and difficult name to pronounce, yet, even spell.

School proved to be very strange and weird for Ecseidgeraztshan Huudonnitte. While in class, the students were given the task to spell their names. Ecseidgeraztshan Huudonnitte

looked to his left, where a little girl, with dark hair and a unibrow, spelled her name in green marker, easily identifiable as the name Sue. To his right, he looked over and the young boy spelled his name in yellow, though difficult to see on white paper, he could understand that the boys name was Billy. As Ecseidgeraztshan Huudonnitte began to spell his name, he changed markers 11 times as he spelled his name. Identifying his name, the difficult pronunciation, the color changes, the phonetics, the cadence to pronounce it properly, all was utterly lost in translation because his name was so long and difficult. The little children in his class would not call him by his name. They would usually say, “Hey” and give him a pat on the back, because they could not remember, nor pronounce his name. You see, such simple, fragile minds are meant for learning. The educational system and society have such “rules,” such commonalities to know and understand one another, yet Ecseidgeraztshan Huudonnitte was completely isolated and ostracized from civilization. Acrostics proved to be a nightmare in class. When asked what Ecseidgeraztshan Huudonnitte name meant, there was no translation, nor any meaning to his name. Ecseidgeraztshan Huudonnitte would sometimes lose hope, wonder why he wasn’t important, why other children wouldn’t call him by name, why the teacher would just say “You” when he raised his hand. He felt completely hopeless and lost in the world, because his name was Ecseidgeraztshan Huudonnitte.

As of every year, the school had events that allowed the children to reach out for something more; contests, if you will, that allowed them to compete, raise the status quo, showcase the educational system and stand out among their peers. Ecseidgeraztshan Huudonnitte was very shy because of what he knew about his name. What did interest him, though, was the school spelling bee. He had his doubts, he didn’t know how it would go. Would the words be difficult like his name? He was very inarticulate in his speech when he asked the teacher if he could compete. Yet, the teacher encouraged him to enter the spelling bee. She even looked him in the eyes with a smile and said, sincerely, “You will be wonderful.” With hope in his heart and a smile upon his face, he thought he could win the spelling bee. She had been such a bright motivation for him, heck, Ecseidgeraztshan Huudonnitte even thought he could make an acrostic, the biggest that any kid had ever seen, and it would be glorious. His name, an entire popsicle box long, in 20 different colors of Sharpie, all to his glory.

The day came for the spelling bee. Each child, Billy, Sue, Ecseidgeraztshan Huudonnitte, and many other names that can’t be remembered at this time, stood with trepidation and solemn countenance as the words were given them to spell over the microphone, set forth by the speaker. Billy was given the word “exuberant.” Billy wondered, “Why would this country have such difficult English words to remember while being tested. Billy, earnest in effort began to deliver the spelling. The buzzer went off, Billy’s face turned red and upset, and he went to his seat. The next word was “inconceivable,” Sue had the responsibility of culminating her education over the past year to remember and spell this word, a 100 dollar word, as they would say in America. She gave it her best, yet, she did not remember I before E except after C. She grimaced, took her seat, and sat with a frown upon her face.

What happened that day, happens all over the globe. Children are given difficult words to spell and fail all of the time. Yet, something special happened that day. Ecseidgeraztshan Huudonnitte, spelled every word in his head that the other children had been given, and he was right, 100% of the time. He could see the words, each with a rule of pronunciation, the way that the tongue hits the roof of the mouth while saying it. When you teeth smile as you pronounce the words, you have to know where you are going in the sentence as you pronounce the word and how you have to say it when you are speaking. You see, Ecseidgeraztshan Huudonnitte had “unwritten” rules and different ways of learning when he was in school. EVERYTHING was extremely difficult for him to learn, because he was lost among his peers, yet in all of the chaos and confusion, ONLY HE could spell his name. Only HE could pronounce his name. Sure, the children would finish their assignments earlier than him, start faster and finish sooner than him because they had shorter names. But, every letter, every word, every syllable, every sentence was remembered by Ecseidgeraztshan Huudonnitte. In remembering every part of his name, his memory was trained to be greatest among his peers. He had a longer attention span, a fast trigger while speaking, and a recitation among the legends of thought and brain development. He went on to win the spelling bee. His classmates roared with adulation, cheers ignited the crowd. He even put the moderator to shame because the giver of all words spelled that day could not pronounce his name.

His parents, among the crowd, tearful and proud, raced to the stage to give him their congratulations and love. Ecseidgeraztshan Huudonnitte was dismayed. “I’m so proud of you,” said his father. His mother wept and hugged him as tight as she could. At that moment, Ecseidgeraztshan Huudonnitte began to wonder what was so special about his name. As he looked up at his father, he asked, “Why did you name me this name, Ecseidgeraztshan Huudonnitte?” His father winked at him and smiled, “Your name has a meaning. It means, Words cannot express how happy you have made me and how much you mean to me, as I watch my son, Ecseidgeraztshan Huudonnitte change the world.”

#guinness #linguistics #spelling #india #german #kids #school

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