Wednesday, April 6, 2011

The Word "Blue"

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For the sake of this blog I'm going to spell the word "blue" or "blew", "blou".  I'm only doing this because I recently gave some thought into the many words we use that sound the same as "blue", "blew", or any other similar sounding but different spellings of this word.
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The words that sound like "blou" have such a huge range of meanings and I can't really figure out how they go together.  In many cases it appears to have some kind of relation to pressure, such as: he blou his top, or blou up a balloon.  But then we can add more meanings to the mix, like the color blou, and how some people like their meat. You can also say that a comic's material is blou.  Does that come from the meat reference, meaning it's raw?
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The point I'm trying to make is next time you complain that someone else's language sounds confusing and is hard to learn, just remember the word "blou"

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