What's Up?
Thursday September 11, 2008
Honestly, I’m not a big fan of forwarded emails. Though sometimes an interesting gem or two pops up, either intellectual, witty and/or humorous, I just have to share it. If you love wordplay and the english language, then you’ll probably enjoy this. Whatever it is, someone somewhere seriously needs to get a life. Great read nontheless!
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is ‘UP.’It is easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we are awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? Yet at a meeting, why is it so hard to stay UP? So why does a topic comes UP? Why do we have to speak UP, why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? If you think about it, it is pretty screwed UP.
We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, to warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don’t give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP. When it doesn’t rain for awhile, things dry UP.
One could go on, but I’ll wrap it UP as it is about time to shut UP.
// Filed under: Stimuli
# amirahlee
Sun Sep 14, 07:05 AM
Goodness gracious, true enough; one could go on and on so the Shut Up was a really good ending! Never had I given much thought to the word “Up.” This cheers me UP!