My son and I were talking about the grim times America s in, and we tackled a question, “If you could do one thing to make things better, what would it be?”
The answer was easy, since I was a kid of the 1970s. I said: “I’d like to buy the world a home, and furnish it with love.”
My Gen Z boy said: “That’s cringe, dad.”
I continued: “Grow apple trees and honey bees and snow white turtle doves.”
“What does that even mean?” he said.
Ignoring him, I continued: “I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. I’d like to buy the world a Coke, and keep it company.”
50 Famously Misheard and Misunderstood Song Lyrics, Explained
By Madison Troyer, Stacker News
On 1/17/21 at 10:00 AM EST
The word
mondegreen is defined as a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your head, but is, in fact, incorrect. The term was coined in a November 1954
Harper s Bazaar piece, where the author, Sylvia Wright, recalled a childhood mishearing. According to the author, when she was young her mother would read to her from a book called
Reliques of Ancient Verse. Her favorite poem from the 1765 book went like this: Ye Highland and Ye Lowlands / Oh where have you been? / They have slain the Earl o Moray / And laid him on the green. Wright, however, heard the last line as And Lady Mondegreen.
Noteworthy –WHAT WE LOST, part 2
Jan. 14, 2021 at 6:00 am
OUR TERRIBLE MUSIC LOSSES
With Trump soon walking away (we pray!), our great relief has to be muted by the incredible carnage he left behind. As we all know, he did nothing about the coronavirus when it was so needed in the beginning, when it would have made a huge difference. He saw it as a political calculation, not hundreds of thousands of American lives lost and the pain of all those families.
If he had done nothing it would have been so much better, than the damage done by calling it a hoax and making simple, vital precautions a sign of weakness and opposition to him. He was a catalyst. Mocking masks, dozens of super-spreader events in his name. He just didn’t care.
Relatives and relative strangers. A vicious virus united us with a prevailing sense of loss. It got to the point when we cringed every time the phone rang or we turned on the television, fearing that there would be news of yet another person passing away. This year has seen the deaths of legends and loved ones alike. Many across the country, and close to home, were claimed by COVID-19, while others succumbed to the ravages of illness or time. Others were children who barely had time to make their marks in this world.
As a rough year ends, The Sacramento OBSERVER takes a minute to reflect and acknowledge some of the many Blacks who died in 2020. They are gone, but not forgotten.
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