Monday, October 23, 2006

English, I tell you!

Men-struation.
Men-arche.
Men-opause.

If you're thinking this is going to be a feminist post.. well, I dont know yet. It may become one.
What the hell is wrong with this world where a woman's important bilogical functions all begin with 'men' ? Except 'Pregnancy' which is the only one where Men have anything to do with it at all.
And what's with the similarity between the words 'menstruation' and 'mensuration' anyway?
Two wholly different things altogether..
Well, dictionary.com says that 'menstrual' is Latin for 'monthly'. WhatEVA!

Wonder why people say that. 'whatever' means 'anything that'. But Dictionary.com also adds this meaning to it - used to indicate indifference to a state of affairs, situation, previous statement, etc.

Now you're probably thinking I should stop with going on about words.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

how about Preg-men-cy? lol..