Friday, September 3, 2010

gorgeous?

I am in the car on the way to Philadelphia right now. Typing in a car is strange, and I've never done it before, but it felt neccessary a minute ago. I was looking out of the window and thinking, and somehow I started thinking about spelling, and then I thought about how the word "gorgeous" is spelled, which led me to think about Gia, which makes me sad. But anyway, I came to the conclusion that gorgeous is a strange word. It's gorge+ous. Gorge? I now have this image in my head of people looking at something beautiful, and gorging themselves on its beauty. If it's gorgeous, it's something worth gorging on. Realizing that this whole concept is really silly and inaccurate, I looked up the etymology of gorgeous. It turns out that gorgeous is from the Middle French gorgias, which means elegant and fashionable, perhaps literally meaning "necklace", because all of that comes from Old French gorge, which means bosom or throat. All of which I learned from dictionary.com, by the way. We didn't exactly bring our dictionary on the trip. And I looked up gorge by itself, and it comes from the same place. So I'm totally wrong, but also sort of right, in a way. I think.

This is one example of the several useless kind of things I think about constantly, and I apologize for its dullness. Then again, I can write whatever I want. I'll write something actual soon, most likely.

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