June 12, 1999

Idiot

There are days when no matter what you do, you succeed. The pitch goes over the plate, the toast lands butter side up. This was not one of those days. Instead, it was a day of idiocy. Not the good kind even. What or who was the culprit--- the English language.

If we never had to communicate, there would be no war in this world, no strife. Every word we say in this life has multiple ambiguities in meaning. We say "Okay" because we are content with something and it's taken as a sarcastic whine of displeasure. We hear a compliment similar to that of the same words spoken by a person we fear or cannot stand and react the same. We apologize or try to help and we just push the detonation button marked 'Do not press, bucko!'

All these problems came from communicating. You know, the deaf, blind, mute people out there may be on to something.