In response to last
week’s question, "How do you conjugate "woof" (or
"meow")?", my neighbor Al concluded, "How about Woof - Weft
- Weave..... As for "meow" - I think its Meow - Hiss and spit -
scratch and claw." My cousin Valarie then shared her understanding,
"Just running through the first, second, and third person singular and plural
present tense, you'd have woof, woof, woofs, woof, woof, woof. I won't present
other tenses because that would be a lot of barking, and my neighbor's dog
might become alarmed. I won't even begin to meow lest said dog come after
me!"
My writing and sailing friend Rich declared, "Dogs
and Cats conjugating! Can Armageddon be far behind?" to which my
equestrian friend Royce asked, "Is conjugate like, and/or similar
to conjugal?" Then my dad's beach buddy Bob replied, "If
it is to procreate, forget it. You might end up with a
werewolf." (See bottom of email for more on this).
My sailing friend Norm shared, "My dog Gracie
can definitely conjugate "woof". If I were to send you an
audio file, you can tell when her "woof" means 'feed me,' or
"woof" means my water bowl is empty, or "woof' means 'you left
the gate to the back deck stairs closed and I gotta go badly'.
Here's photo of her looking at me wondering why I don't understand
what she is woofing".
My friend Alan responded,
"Milo says Ruff! Ruff! while Joanna didn’t respond when I asked
her." while my cousin Wes wrote, "Rosie says, 'I woof. You
woof. He/she woofs. We woof. They woof. So woof, woof-woof,
woof woooooooof.' "
My neighbor Al also wanted us to know "the different
forms of conjugate? Conjugation or conjugate may refer to:
Grammatical conjugation, the modification
of a verb from its basic form
Conjugate (algebra), used to rationalize the
denominator of a fraction
Conjugate (graph theory), an alternative
term for a line graph, i.e. a graph representing the edge adjacencies of
another graph
Conjugation (group theory), the image of
an element under the conjugation homomorphisms
Conjugated
systems of p-orbitals in chemical molecules
Conjugation (acid-base theory), a system
describing a conjugate acid-base pair
Conjugation (biochemistry), the turning of
substances into a hydrophilic state in the body
Conjugation (microbiology), a mechanism of
exchange of genetic material between bacteria.
Please share your thoughts about this
week's "things that make you go 'Hmmm' “:
Why can't we all just get
along?
Live. Love. Learn. Laugh ..
Lighten up!
Hal
In
addition to his "I Have a Dream" speech, here are other
things said by Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
·
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively
and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true
education.
·
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as
fools.
·
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
·
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same
boat now.
Thanks to Demetri
Martin, Steven Wright and George Carlin for the inspiration for Hmmm.
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