Thursday, October 22, 2009

Oct. 22, 2009 - Jabberwocky Convention

I attended the fourth annual Jabberwocky Readers’ Convention tonight in Dayton Ohio.

I sat, I listened, I went to the bathroom, and then I sat and listened some more.
What I heard was that they love the postings, but I do not post often enough.

I explained that retirement hasn’t been easy with the golf vacations, the gambling junkets, and the baseball field trips.

At the end of the meeting, I apologized and stated it was “My Bad.”

I promise to post more often, starting tomorrow, or the next day.

Cheers.
JJ

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Wednesday, January 02, 2008

January 1, 2008 - Happy New Year Jabberwockers

Happy New Year and Welcome to 2008.

Wordsmith.org sends me a word each day. On December 21st, I was delighted that they sent me the word JABBERWOCKY.

Other words that week were:

Anthropomorphize
Kafkaesque
Excursive
Dysphagia

jabberwocky
(JAB-uhr-wok-ee) noun

Definition: Meaningless speech or writing.

It became a word after Jabberwocky, a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking Glass.

The poem Jabberwocky is filled with made-up words, yet it has been translated into dozens of languages. Not bad for a nonsensical poem.

Original: http://www.jabberwocky.com/favicon.ico
Translations: JV: Translations

My master plan is that the definition for JABBERWOCKY will be changed at some point based upon the MEANINGFUL WRITINGS that appear on this blog, JAY’S JABBERWOCKY.

BTW, if you forget the URL for this site or if you are traveling without your bookmarks, you can simply GOGGLE “Jay’s Jabberwocky.” It is rated the #1 search result by Google.

HAPPY NEW YEAR JABBERWOCKERS

JABBERWOCKERS
(JAB-uhr-wok-uhrs)

DEFINITION:
people that read Jay's Jabberwocky

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