I’ve been meaning to make a post related to silhouette art, having collected a bunch from various archives and then this work came into my life. I dig it. I also dig the fact that the medium is transitory, the leaves aren’t permanent and what is created does not endure (at least, in the physical sense). It’s some delicately crafted, aesthetically pleasing pieces that I’m happy to pass along.
fun fact: pigs can metabolize alcohol slightly better than humans, and they of course enjoy grains. this means that a pig can drink a beer as a treat. Rufus usually gets one a year, for his birthday. and he won’t let the label stop him.
i don’t know anything about what’s actually good or bad for pigs, but this does lead me to wonder…if pigs can metabolize beer better than humans…how much fermented corn did that one fucking pig eat to be so out of it that she could roll down the hill to hell for bbq with the devil? you know the one i’m talking about
“The simultaneous borrowing of French and Latin words led to a highly distinctive feature of modern English vocabulary: sets of three items, all expressing the same fundamental notion but differing slightly in meaning or style, e.g., kingly, royal, regal; rise, mount, ascend; ask, question, interrogate; fast, firm, secure; holy, sacred, consecrated. The Old English word (the first in each triplet) is the most colloquial, the French (the second) is more literary, and the Latin word (the last) more learned.” (Howard Jackson and Etienne Zé Amvela, “Words, Meaning and Vocabulary: An Introduction to Modern English Lexicology.” Continuum, 2000)
Though I like how John McWhorter phrases it better:
But language tends not to do what we want it to. The die was cast: English had thousands of new words competing with native English words for the same things. One result was triplets allowing us to express ideas with varying degrees of formality. Help is English, aid is French, assist is Latin. Or, kingly is English, royal is French, regal is Latin – note how one imagines posture improving with each level: kingly sounds almost mocking, regal is straight-backed like a throne, royal is somewhere in the middle, a worthy but fallible monarch.
