oklahoma
ok just so everybody knows as i write this i can only feel half my mouth. i just got back from having a cavity filled. it was very unsettling because we were watching the today show in the dentists office and the new kids on the block were on there and the dentist ladies were all like “they’re so old blah blah blah a lady came in the a nkotb t-shirt and she was like 40 blah blah blah” all the time they were trying to numb me up and if i didn’t have a giant needle in my mouth perhaps i would have said HELLO! i would appreciate a little concentration!
but anyways…that’s not what i’m writing about. i was thinking about oklahoma. not the state exactly, just the shape. because in German class we have all these charts to memorise, where on the top row you have all the genders (masc. fem. neut. and plural) and down the left we have the case (nominativ:subject; accusative:direct object/ object of an accustive preposition; Dative: Indirect object/ object of a dative preposition; and Genitive [we laugh cuz it sounds like genital]:possessive pronouns and objects of genitive prepositions) and in each little box is an adjective ending. any of the adjectives that describe any of those things has to have an ending on it that is determined by what gender the noun is that your describing and what case that noun is.
the first time we learned that chart we notice that everything in nominative: masc, fem, and neut; and accusative: fem, and neut, were all the same ending, “e.” you probably haven’t figured this out, but that makes the shape of oklahoma.
anyways, our teacher was the one who pointed that out to us so we could remember it. unfortunately we only use that chart when the adjective also follows a definate article (der die das den dem des or in english- “the”) so we only use that chart about one forth of the time we used adjectives. so then this year, someone asked, “who came up with calling it oklahoma?” and someone said it had to be Frau Blount, but Herr Unruh said he rarely gets territorial, but he came up with it.
ok. so that isnt a very good example, but i was just thinking about how wierd people get about making sure they get credit for their ideas. like Tie tuesday for example. This kid in my german class wears ties every tuesday, and the goal was to get everyone to wear ties on tuesdays and i’m a big fan of ties so i wore them on tuesdays too.
Then, one day, i forgot to wear a tie, or i didn’t have time or something, and someone was like, “what happened to your tie tuesdays?” and then the kid who came up with it was all like “that was mine! i came up with tie tuesday! blah blah blah!” and i’m like hello! the goal was to get everyone wearing ties.
i mean isn’t that one of the goals any time you come up with things? to get them to cath on? like this girl who came up with “crap on a crap cracker” was like, “it’s gonna cath on and everybody’s gonna be saying it.” but then anytime somebody does she gets all demonic and says “that’s mine.”
so i guess anytime anyone comes up with anything they want it to spread, and they want everybody to say it, but they want credit for it everytime they do. which is incredibly unrealistic.
idk. it was just something i noticed.
