Monday, August 29, 2005

I is home to dingoes.

I was thinking about the word "uniformed" the other day, and wow does it make a lot of sense. It means, of course, that an individual is wearing clothing colored and styled in such a way as to denote a rank or occupation, but it's so much more clever than that! Let's seperate it up into the three major componenets; 'un' 'i' and 'formed'. 'Un' is clearly just used as an inverting prefix, super. The interest lies in the other 66%, or 77% if you go by letter count barring misspellings. That part incoporates the ideas of creation and the individual, and if you can't see where i'm not going to bother telling you. Come to think of it, if you can see where i probably won't bother telling you either.
When a normal not-going-to-work, not-in-jail, or not-in-Catholic-school citizen gets dressed, he wears what he likes, and he likes what reflects his personality. The word you use to signify yourself is I, and our friend the citizen is creating or 'forming' his own outfit. Brilliant! So when you're wearing what you feel like, you are 'iformed' and it's delightful. When you're wearing something with the purpose of reflecting a job or station, it is not you, or, from the first person POV, "un-i". Un-I-formed! Uniformed! Amazing!
Sometimes this language just gets it right.







I is like Australia. Both have two different size-classifications without changing at all. You've got i the letter, and I the word (shut up!). You've got Australia the country, and Australia the continent.




If England begins using the Euro, there will be many countries with British queens on the coins and Britain won't be one of them.