When did it become acceptable to say \u2018comfy\u2019 when you mean comfortable? I was thinking about it the other night. It struck me as add that by contrast you don\u2019t say \u2018uncomfy\u2019. It seems that if your feeling is a negative one then you have to be more formal about expressing it than if it is a good thing you\u2019re saying. It\u2019s interesting in the dog world, we don\u2019t have an equivalent of your slang or regional speech. With us, a woof is definitely a woof and a howl is absolutely a howl. We need to be clear so that we can communicate with unknown animals at some distance in any situation. It also struck me that ours is a language in the oral tradition. We have never seen the need to write the woofs down so that we can pass them on to our puppies in written form. We do pass stories on through the generations, but we do this through the spoken rather than the written word.<\/p>\n
It all just goes to increase my fascination with human languages. Perhaps I should write the reverse scenario to Dr Dolittle. Instead of having a man that can talk to animals, I could assign the role to an animal that has learnt to translate for the human. Oh sure, it\u2019s easy to understand a cat. They\u2019re usually just saying things like \u2018I\u2019m better than you\u2019 and \u2018leave me alone can\u2019t you see I\u2019m busy\u2019 but wouldn\u2019t it be great to have your dog translate what every animal around you was saying. The mice could let you know when they\u2019d run out of cheese and the spiders could ask you to leave specific cobwebs untouched because they\u2019re still using them.<\/p>\n
You know what\u2019s the most scary? I had all these thoughts just from thinking that comfy is an abbreviation of comfortable!<\/p>\n
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