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Games, activities and teaching ideas > Word of the Day - 11/15/2010
Word of the Day - 11/15/2010
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elderberrywine
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You know the way we all have passwords all over the internet? I have great trouble remembering mine although I tried to limit them to three or four different ones.
So I �m forever forced to apply for new passwords when trying to order something somewhere and fighting with diverse mail accounts to get them.
One night I had gone through them all, could remember none and was beyond myself with fatigue and anger. Life just didn �t make sense any more.
Sense? Was there a password including "sense"? I was sure there was.
Not remembering exactly what it was I murmured "sense-sense-sense" to myself Slowly my eyelids began to close, my chin neared the keyboard, my pronunciation became less distinct as sleep entered my brains. That �s where memory begins to fail me.
My children claimed that the next morning they found me fast asleep in front of the computer murmuring
zenzizenzizenzic
and that only after three cups of strong coffee did they manage to make me talk sense again.
Ever since, this word zenzizenzizenzic has expressed a notion of confusion, fatigue, inability to remember and dizziness in my family and I have no idea how gabitza came to know about it.
I thought this was one of our special family words.... known to nobody outside the family ... but there you are ...
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15 Nov 2010
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Jazuna
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It is the famous pub in the old part in the Zanzibar City .
Seriously, I have no idea ...... perhaps a word used in science. |
15 Nov 2010
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juliag
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It is the chant Zen Buddhists use to aid their meditation, "zenzizenzizenzizenzi..." The "zic" is caused by a sharp inhalation when one of said Zen Buddhists achieves Satori and makes an involuntary gasp or when one of said Zen Buddhists gets the hiccups during meditation. |
15 Nov 2010
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LeaS
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a rare plant, said to induce euphoria only in A2 level English learner and making them spontaneusly recite irregular verbs backwards.
For all others it induces straggling walk and outbursts of the Lumberjack Song, ending in "zenzic! p �kow!" screamed over and over again.
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15 Nov 2010
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David Lisgo
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Julia came close, but the word really means "A Buddist priest who stutters".
I �m off to meditate on the deeper meaning of the word. |
15 Nov 2010
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elderberrywine
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You should devise some therapy for him instead, David!!
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15 Nov 2010
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edrodmedina
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the act of falling asleep while meditaing...that �s why all the zzzzzzs |
15 Nov 2010
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douglas
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What happens to monks when they try to meditate while at sea:
Zen sea, (as the ship goes up a wave)
Zen sea, (as the ship comes back down the wave)
Zen sick (when the monk turns blue-green-pale all at once and empties his stomach onto the deck)
Douglas |
15 Nov 2010
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almaz
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Old Zazou lingo for three times as cool. |
15 Nov 2010
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