The Gift of Tongues

No….not the one in your mouth silly. Languages.

Without the ability to converse verbally, some of us would not be very capable of getting our point across except by grunting, using sign language or whistling.

A supernatural ability of speaking an unlearned language is not in my cards.

Some people that have the gift of gab can learn a language on the fly.

Ziad Fazah, born in Liberia, brought up in Beirut and now living in Brazil, claims to be the world’s greatest living polyglot, speaking a total of 59 world languages

Others like myself struggle speaking one and a half languages semi-fluently. Oui, c’est vrai.

My sis Woozle and I actually invented a language when we were younger which we still use somewhat today.

It’s a spelling language and goes like this:

The word (mother) for example: Mop-O-Top-Hop-E-Rop.

The word (love): Lop-O-Vop-E

The word (FCUK): Fop-Cop-U-Pop

As you can see it is an easy language to learn and use! No one without the common knowledge of the key to unlock it will ever understand what you are saying. It’s like Pig-Latin, but a lot easier (Bro) Bop-Rop-O!

Kids can learn this from 4 years and up. Go on, (give it a try): Gop-I-VoP-E I-Top a Top-Rop-Yop…

In every language there are oddity examples, here are two :

English:

Rhythms” is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u

“Ough” can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: “A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.

Hungary: Te tetted e tettetett tettet, tettetett tettek tettese te! - this is a grammatically correct sentence

Fun Facts:

There are over 20,000 French words created each year

The language of “La Gomera” spoken off the coast of Spain consists entirely of whistles.

Cambodia has the longest alphabet…74 characters to be exact.

Getting back to tongues, ya, the one in your mouth, your tongue needs to practice curving itself when forming words. Tongue twisters are a form of exercising it:

Try this: A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

What’s in a word?

One word can heal or kill. Your choice.

This is as simplified as it gets. Positive or negative words have power. The in-between words are just fluff. Fillers. The power words are what matter. FK, N, Love, Care…

Tones matter when speaking these words. It's interesting… when you inject a tone when pronouncing a word it can invoke laughter, awe, hatred…

Add spittle to the said word and insaneness rears its ugly head...

Say the same word with giggles and it's just trash talk. Lol

Pronouncing words are just as important as the words themselves, for instance, a drawl, a lisp, can change a word's character even if it's not meant to be.

"The Spoken Word" People tend to sit up and take notice when these words are recited. The word of God so to speak.

I speak with forked tongue. Dishonest people use this method accompanied with "to tell you the truth…" The dreaded 4 "T’s" … They dress and look the part except when their eyes dart while speakin’

CONFUCIOUS SAY: Man who speak with forked tongue is probably a snake in the grass.

The most powerful word in the world is "Yes"