tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post7854673779965897908..comments2024-03-07T14:43:21.888-08:00Comments on Whatever I want to write about: That was no cat on a hot tin roofSriram Khéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907731254833435446noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-24722084046480934082014-06-24T00:30:50.510-07:002014-06-24T00:30:50.510-07:00Ramesh, there is rain and there is rain, as Anne h...Ramesh, there is rain and there is rain, as Anne has explained it. <br /><br />"Bill" apparently did not invent words as much as we think he did ... he was a master at keeping track of the changes in the lingo and knowing when to use those new words ... a genius at word play, among a gazillion other things. <br /><br />We in the US had our own inventor of words: Jefferson.<br />http://sriramkhe.blogspot.in/2013/10/is-there-word-for-that.html<br />Jefferson also invented the word that means to invent words: neologize ;)Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-84566298369313095272014-06-23T21:18:14.251-07:002014-06-23T21:18:14.251-07:00How many of those words did Shakespeare make up? ...How many of those words did Shakespeare make up? Did "puking" exist before him?<br /><br />Ramesh, yes, it rains much here, but it is more the drizzly, misty, annoying rain, not the wonderful downpours I imagine happen during India's monsoon. There's usually not enough rain to bother wearing raincoats or using umbrellas. Being a native Midwesterner, not a native Oregonian, I completely understand the urge to run into the rain. Sriram, I hope you get soaked soon!Anne in Salemnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-75862969786951414242014-06-23T08:44:39.772-07:002014-06-23T08:44:39.772-07:00God. Do you have to say "Bill" ??
I won...God. Do you have to say "Bill" ??<br /><br />I wonder what your numerous Eugene friends have to say on this post. Running into the rain, coming from a land where it rains all the time ??<br /><br />Rameshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.com