Friday, December 7, 2012

Parseabilty...a word by any other name...

     Ability, now there's something everybody tries to possess, demonstrate or maybe celebrate, if not in yourself, then others. Yup, abilities are handy to have and if one is lucky to have the right ones, they can be quite profitable, or have a profitability. Now this shows what happens when you grab one noun and stick it on the back of another, two nouns for the price of one, yeah yeah yeah like a bogo, but don't tarry here because there may be a point coming up, but then again don't get your hopes up because my points sometimes provoke head scratching. It seems to me that all you have to do is pick a topic...ummm senses, add ability(sometimes it might be ibilty, I can't control this stuff) and bingo you're in ...sensibility, or market...marketability and there are others. Also it seems that its usually used in a positive form, as if adding ility makes it sound.(?) But wait, corrupt would become corruptibility, and you can't have corruption without it, ,man this is getting way too deep for me, and so I must divert, or as is normal in this blog, revert.
     In an earlier facebook posting I quoted from the Robert Burr Spoken English Dictionary, well fear not, that  is still in print, and ever expanding, however; I feel that now would be the right time to cede all rights and authorities to B2BNN for they are better equipped to handle all the finer points of language and its misuse.---note to those who may not know, B2BNN  is the title of this blogs' news division, and if the news director and field manager(me), can get the rest of the staff(me) to agree on what to cover and expound on things might happen. Anyway, it is without trepidation that B2BNN now has a Dictionary division, and that again means new appointments of editors and staff as I am a job creator. So...after going over the above logic dealing with language it seems imperative to the staff of the Dictionary division(me) that a unique melding of word suffixes and possibly prefixes is called for, and the newly titled B2B Spoken Dictionary is the place these words will call home.
     Here's the deal...if something exists that would cause something else to react to it, it then has a value to that other object. Granted this isn't new thought as it applies to just about everything in life(simple example---a stone in a river makes the water flow around it). Let's work on that in our point of view....watching a cat make her way along a counter top,  a counter top that has the usual trappings, trappings adjusted for PEOPLE use, not cats, watching her try to maneuver from one end to the other...oops a stumble and fall and here we go....stumble, the cat couldn't make it  so she showed her stumblility...wasn't that easy. Continuing...this can also apply to saaay....movies, actually movies work doubly well here because....say a movie doesn't cut it, or you might say...stinks, well it now has garbageibility and so then as a rating system one could apply a garbageibilty rating, something like a little trash bag icon with wavy lines over it, say one line for bad but could be worse and five lines for get out the deodorizer. What's that, you want me to use it in a sentence, okay, fair enough...At nighttime leaving objects on the floor increases a persons stumblility level.
      Enough of that, I hope you get the picture, well that picture anyways, because there are others. Again I sense a feeling of apprehension, understandable, but dare I say, needless. This is an old thought of mine, and it goes back to my school days and singularly Latin class. There are some of you that have heard this, but here it is. In Latin the plural form of some words is achieved by replacing the suffix us with an i, that part is easy. Now plural means more than one, more than one in most explanations, but maybe not in the B2B,  in the B2B plural also means deeper or mayhaps more intent. Example? Well my point is the word ridiculous, if something is well beyond what are considered the boundaries of your normal everyday ridiculous, it is the plural of ridiculous, or ridiculi. See, it can work. Isn't it easier to say ridiculi than 'the utter ridiculousness'. Try saying them three times quickly and you'll see how the longer phrase increases the stumblilty of you tongue.
     Sometime back B2BNN  announced the start-up of a new format of reality show. Well the process has been stalled due to the ineffectiveness of the staff to gather up the required cast. It is with confidence that I can now say that improvements have been made and some adjustments in the staging have been decided on. It will simply be referred to as 'The City' and will mainly be a running, rambling of their everyday lives. The issue is, these people think they are going to be on your standard reality show, but we at B2BNN are just going to be following them through some of their normal days, with our special equipment that gets all the inside stuff. So far there's a family that's somewhat wealthy, a widowed mother who has remarried to a former athlete and they have a blended family, mostly hers and mostly daughters. Also a right wing talk show host and a family that hails from the hills. There will others along the way, but basically it will just be daily comings and goings in bursts, starts and stops so to speak. As always it will be unscripted, so...well we'll see.

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