{"id":3253,"date":"2014-03-23T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=3253"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:37:30","slug":"sesquipedalia-and-the-meaning-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=3253","title":{"rendered":"Sesquipedalia and the Meaning of Life….."},"content":{"rendered":"

This has all happened before and I know it will all happen again. It’s Sunday morning and I haven’t an idea in my head for a post \ud83d\ude42 There was lots of “stuff” on FB, but again, much of it was repetitive – trite memes, boring lists, not-so-cute animal tricks – sigh.<\/p>\n

I flipped around on a few blog sites, looked at some YouTube videos and finally ended up in one of my favourite places – Word of the Day. If all else fails, utter something sesquipedalian. It means polysyllabic and it does cast a new light on the situation.<\/p>\n

I’m sure that we all remember “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” It’s not that I need to sound “precocious,” as the song suggests, it’s just that I need to come up with something interesting!! Now the word for the day from wordthink.com <\/a>was “bifurcate” – to divide into branches or fork. It’s a new word for me, so this is good. It seems to be used mainly in the sense of a river splitting into separate streams, as in – The river bifurcates at the base of the mountain. It made me think, though, of anything liquid, splitting apart. I saw the mind dividing into different streams of consciousness, or the soul slipping into other realms. Can you go to these places and come back a different person? Something to explore another time.<\/p>\n

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Then again bifurcate doesn’t actually sound like a mental or spiritual event. The hard consonants and the growling “r” suggest a negative, as in, “I wish he would bifurcate himself.” Well, maybe and perhaps it is better than some of the alternatives \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The other word place I visited was the Merriam-Webster<\/a> site. I’ve forgotten their word for today, but, I liked their definitions on mugs, aprons, T-shirts and pet dishes. Yes, if all else fails find a word to define and put it on a mug or in a post \ud83d\ude42  Not many, though, were sesquipedalian, maybe it says something about what we buy to define our lives!!<\/p>\n

The picture? an unbifurcated stream \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Have a wonderful day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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