Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Brachylogy
Brachylogy is conciseness of speech or excessively condensed speech. I'm sorry to say I'm not a brachylogist! I find them sometimes worth of admiration and sometimes frustrating. Thanks for your innovative possibilities for brachylogy. We have two winners - again. This time, it's Sandy Shoes and Thesaurus Rex. Great work, both of you.
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Brachylogy is the study of brachysaurus, one of the flying dinasaurs. Poor Brachy. was a very timid little creatures who lived in trees in the mistaken belief that he would be safe there. However, there was a very fierce dinasaur called Thesaurus Rex, who was tall and skinny and lived exclusively on a diet of Brachysaurus. They were the first of the dinasaurs to become extinct.
Lorenzo.
p.s. I think Raelha's explanation for blindage was the best. It was so good that I am going to use it from now on for this very personal defect in myself. Thanks Raels!!
Lorenzo T.
A person who stares at their food while they eat is a brachyologist. Not being a formal discipline of science, brachyology is the nearly unconscious study of the food on one's plate. Brachyologists often begin quite young by pushing their peas around on the plate.
Brachylogy is the formal name for a tree's silhouette. It is helpful for identifying trees at a distance -- an aspen's brachylogy is readily distinguished from a willow's, for instance. But because nobody is ever really compelled to distinguish trees at a distance, it's not a term often heard outside landscape painting classes.
Brachylogy is a specialized area of child psychology. It is the study of how children who've broken their mother's favorite vase, figurine or lamp labor to glue it together and how long it takes for Mother to notice the cracks.
Brachylogy comes from the Ancient Greek word "Bracho" - "I rattle", and is the study of the effects of repetitive noises, for example someone constantly tapping on a table. It is well known that cats' brains shut out such sounds, and brachylogists are seeking to find a drug that will make humans do the same thing, instead of the more usual reaction of going crazy and trying to kill the tapper.
Brachylogy is the study in boxing (pugilism) of broken jaws sustained from a punch on the chin. It originates from that quaint old english phrase -'I'm gonna punch you up the bracket, mate!' - oft occurring in Shakespeare's plays.
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Brachylogy; the study of the history of women's winter underwear through the ages. (The mind boggles)
Brachyology is the study of tree stumps. (I came up with this because I was so stumped!)
Brachylogy is a pattern of speech that is stilted and arranged to imitate the sounds of underaged adolescents.
Brachylogy refers to the collection of unbelievably boring and pointless items, such as toothpaste caps, sardine can keys and 1" squares of leatherette. The term arose in the 1930's thanks to Reg Sedge and his persistent collecting of small wall brackets. The collection of 980,002 brackets of various sizes were destroyed in 1934 when his distraught wife set light to the garden shed in a fit of hysteria.
Brachylogy is the study of slow motion and it's effects on the body, even speech. Some people who master this like to go on the dance floor with strobe lights and really look robotic and slow.
Brachylogy is a large college lecture class that offers students anonymity and tempts them to frequently skip class. This temptation is often called the brachylogy effect.
Brachyology (n)- The study of classical music, and the effect it has on people- whether making them smarter (as in babies) or making them pound their fists on the wall in rage (certain people who can't stand any music that isn't hugely popular now)
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