Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Spelling, suffixes

In a twist of fate that is enough to make Ayn Rand believe in the hand of God, Forrest inadvertently turned prophet earlier this week by misspelling 'Ottawa' as 'Ottowa'. For truly, my brethren, the land has indeed become indelibly marked as Otto-wa.

Maybe we shouldn't read too much into this though, as Forrest has a surprising amount of difficulty with the English language considering his relative familiarity with it. Otherwise, he would understand suffixes and the crucial difference between -ed and -ing. As in, 'died' and 'dying'. The difference is slight but, and I believe dying people would agree with me here, important. So, no investing in crucifixes yet I guess. Except when Evan wants a midnight snack.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

new game:

What else does FWP stand for?

So Far my favorites, or favourites depending on where you live:

Fictional Whitewash Painters
Fact Wielding Phillistines
Forrest's Wife Psychiatrists
Freedom without Prisons
Frosted Wheat Pastries
Foxy wildebeast Passions
Fringe Writers Problemmakers
Future Weather Patterns
Five Water Pistols
Free Wifi Packetsnatching
Festively Wrapped Picnics
Famous Waddling Penguins

Also I would have put Forrest's Wifery Psychiatrists, but apparently there is midwifery but no wifery (there may be in Europe where you can just be whelmed)

GOOD NIGHT CANADA!