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Frogs
So what? Said the first frog.
So jeely, said the second frog. It’s a word I’m trying to invent.
What does a frog want
to invent a word for? Asked the first frog.
I will tell you why I
want to invent it once I know what it means, said the second frog. I can’t tell you why I want to invent it
until I know what it does.
Whuh stuttered the first frog.
Whuh stuttered the first frog.
I mean if it is a
great word that really catches on and lots of people use it then I want to
invent it so that I can get rich off royalties…
That’s not how words…
...the second frog
continued: but suppose it’s an evil word? Then I must
want to invent it because I am up to no good.
I’m a bad frog. Maybe an evil frog, maybe.
But…
Then again maybe I
have just realized that there is a thing or action or emotion in this world
that exists but has never been accurately described, and jeely is the word that will let people know what it is they
have been looking at, the second frog said.
Or doing or feeling, the second frog added, after a pause. And then that
would mean that I want to invent a word to help people better understand their
world.
They sat in silence for a moment. A dragonfly flew by.
Well? Asked the first frog. Which
is it?
The second frog told him: How should I know?
4 comments:
I know what jeely means...
So maybe YOU invented it?
Are you calling the second frog a plagiarist?
Can you plagiarize a single word?
Watch out. Andrew may sue for all those royalties from folks using jeely all the time. Maybe if one of the 'e's were silent or something the frog could get away with it.
Seriously, that was an amazing story. It really had the feel of one of those old stories I read as a child. What was the one about the two toads? I forget now, I just have this vague memory.
Regardless, good stuff.
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