"The hills are avive..."
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Why isn’t there a word to differentiate between being alive as in, “I’m a sentient being” versus, “I’m alive but i’m a vegetable that uses CO2 and photosynthesis to grow my cell walls?”
This was one of the many topics that were tossed around at Jannine’s birthday dinner at Penang Restuarant. Why not differentiate between the vegetable and the animal?
Sensing that the English language has been lacking this very word for centuries, i put my Mensa-level brain to the task...and came up with....
This word has both Germanic and French roots. Well, actually, it’s mostly a bastardization of the word “live” and the French word “vive” which...well, which means to live. So let’s face it, I stole it from the French but just made a new meaning. Vegetables alive = Veg - alive = v-a-ive = AVIVE
GENIUS!
This can be easily conjugated into many other parts of speech. “Viving” (pronounced with a short ‘i’) as in “All viving plants need water.” “Vive” (long ‘i’) can be used like this - “Vive plants somehow use soil without depleting it.” And how insulted would you be if someone said to you, “Buddy, you’re so brain dead that you’re barely AVIVE much less alive!” oooh, that one stings!
So make sure you add this to your vocabulary! I’m going to go have a nice little chat with Merriam-Webster now…
Ya, uhm, good luck with that. At least the topic “does the pope crap in the woods” didn’t come up. Or why cows don’t step on cattle gaurds. and would the internet still work if everyone on the planet died at once. i’m gonna get some sleep now.
Posted by on 10/07 at 10:46 PMWell Kat, it sounds like you found some pretty good peeps out there if they are carrying on conversations like that with you. Sounds like the Loma Linda crew to me! ;)
Thanks for the pictures, too. It’s cool to see everyone you’re talking about. In fact, you really ought to have a page called the Cast (or Kast - to go with your Kat theme) so we can see who all these folks are.
Posted by laura on 10/08 at 11:54 AMUm, stop stealing my lines Ryan. I mean really, what if everyone died? Well my job wouldn’t get done, but that would be about the same as now.
Great page Kathy.
Posted by on 10/11 at 08:44 AM