melinthropy

I’ve already sent this out to a bunch of people, but I wanted to post it here because I find it so amusing. I’m afraid I identify with quite a bit of it!

Weird Al’s White and Nerdy video

(This is higher res than the youtube version. I got it off Weird Al’s official site.)

I was just writing my “About” page and talking about how I like languages — I’ve tried to learn French, Japanese, Irish Gaelic, Cantonese and German at various times through various means with varying levels of success. I will probably add Italian, Esperanto, Latin, and who knows what else to my list in the future.

But the most recent one is Spanish. Living in Smyrna, I have a lot of need for it, really. I’ve actually had two particular instances that stand out in my mind when it would have come in handy. It would have been good to be able to say “You can activate the gas pump by pressing the green button” and “Oh my god, why is your car sticking out of my neighbor’s house? Do you need an ambulance?”. These were separate occasions, by the way. Also, I would like to be able to understand the zany dj’s on the Spanish radio station (Viva! 105.3 Tan Latina Como Tu!).

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mel·in·thro·py /mel’ ən throh pee/
–noun.
Melinda’s cool new blog.

Yes, that’s right, it doesn’t even get any hits on Google! That means no one ever thought of it before! John said there was a reason no one ever thought of it before… Clearly he means because I am an innovator. Honestly, people should hire me to come up with names for their companies.

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