Are the English Verbal Androids??

Tilly is floating in her own little world again try to make sense of it all

We don’t speak in that female mescaline way of other tongs ‘you’ is the person who is being addressed ‘you’ is a bit of an android word don’t you think? Is this why our language has taken bits from here, there and everywhere? As a consequence we have built a complex language for sure but one in which forgets the sexuality of the people who it is referring to. Is that why we Brits have a stiff upper lip? We are just pondering on whether we are talking about a man or a woman that our lips stay in a stiffened state.

            But our tapestry of speech goes way back and is very eclectic. With each generation adding their own usage, words change their meaning as we go. Some academics do not like this one little bit, believing language should be set in stone and hung around the neck of each of us, to understand the universe as they see it, with clarity and meaning. I like change, although I admit there are some changes to our language I do not approve of, mostly the words that I do not understand or ones that are unnecessarily abusive to my ears and thoughts but I keep it to myself.

            It seems to me each time we were invaded, as they pilfered and plundered we rummaged through their language and used it against them. They say that Chinese and Mandarin will be the next language invasion. Can’t wait to see what effect that has on our lingo and for the esteemed language boffins to blow their collective gaskets. Come to think about it, if they were ever to read my blog, they will surely have a coronary explosion.

            Don’t get me wrong we need people to tell us how it all began, why we use the words we do and indeed how to use them properly. But the joy for me as a dyslexic writer is the sound of them, not their patterns on the paper. Those patterns and their changing rules, on a good day, make a hazy sense, on a bad day totally confuddle me.

            Now let’s take the word confuddled (while skipping over the usage of ‘let’s’ instead of ‘let us’), It is a blend of confused; Tilly’s meaning- unable to think or reason in any logical or sensible way and befuddled; Tilly’s- meaning; to make someone in a state of perplexed and muddled mind. Neither word would suffice or convey how I feel on a bad day with dyslexia. I can spend hours looking and not seeing a word, sounding out each letter but as my eyes track them I will miss a few and not be able to make sense of the word written. I also get this when people speak but have learnt a trick of lip-reading so that between the ear and the visual I can, pretty much, guess what is being said. You see the words befuddle me with confusion so I need to be able to use confuddled!!!! Nothing what so ever to do with the fact I’ve always liked its soft sound of ticklish fun that it produces in my mind and ear.

            So us English may be verbal androids but with our stiff upper lip, we do like to have a bit of verbal fun, albeit in an android sort of way!

Albeit, is a conjunction word a fusion of thoughts and a connective word like a door between two rooms of the same house. Apparently, it is going out of fashion which is sad as I like its sound and it is better than furthermore which is harsh and boring!! Furthermore is an adverb that modifies verbs, which leads onto another thought. So it does connect but not in the same way so can’t be called a conjunction word? I’ve blown a gasket and am having too much fun? So I will quietly go for a lie down.

From your English android Tilly x