The Word "Yeah"

Some of us are slower than others at picking up on things that maybe should have been understood as a 13 year old, and I'm not saying whether I fall into this category for this particular topic. But really, how is anyone supposed to know that the word "yeah" is spelled "y-e-a-h"? When you first said or heard the word "yeah," is "y-e-a-h" the spelling that comes to mind? I don't think so. Is it even close? It can't be "yah" because that must be pronounced like "Hannah." I always thought it was "ya" because it's perfectly set up for a short vowel sound, but I guess that must be reserved for the slang for "you" in "see ya" and "luv ya." Even still, that pronunciation leads you to a speeling mor along the lines of "yah" or "yuh." "Yea" is pronounced "yay" because that's how is was always pronounced in readings of the 23rd Psalm.

So, we're left with "yeah." I don't know what other words with "-eah" might produce the same sound, but for all those who to text "yeah," you might get away with "ya" sometimes, but if you want to convey it the right, you're gonna have to give in to the "majority rules" rule and spell out all four letters of it.

The Inmundane

Wow it's been a long time since my last post. I guess I just got caught up in doing stuff in NZ that I lost interest in thinking or writing about it. It was a culture that I was more familiar with compared to that of Nepal, so I think that had something to do with it as well. We are much better at absorbing our surroundings when we are in an unfamiliar place, so having been back in the States for almost two years now, I am sensing a lack of appreciation for my surroundings here.

So let's take this blog in a new direction. Let's make the mundane into the inmundane. You will have to bear with me at first because I am not as good at it now as I will be. We must do our best to create around us the life we want, so let's consider this to be a minor (or possibly significant), version of that.

Organic bananas aren't near as good as non-organic ones. I am more for the 'au natural' than most people I know, but honestly, the non-organic ones just taste better, and they're bigger. Actually, the organic ones didn't have much of a taste at all. So I wonder... is "banana" a taste that we've created? Chew on that for a while.