Outdated Slang
Language changes. Slang in particular has made a significant impact on the world’s languages. English slang in the U.S. has contributed much to the spoken lexicon. But like fashion, slang words, terms and phrases go in and out of style. That’s why, every now and then, we wonder about slang – in particular, the slang […]
Too Many Ancestors
Everyone has 2 parents – biologically speaking. Which means 4 grandparents, 8 great brand parents, 16 great great grandparents, etc. If you follow that progression back 30 generations, that would be 1 billion people. And if you go back 40 generations, that would be over a trillion people. Generations vary in length – between 22 […]
You Can’t Think of “Anything”
A great many people believe that the mind is so powerful it can literally think of anything. But that’s not true. For example – imagine in your mind, the sound of the lowest possible musical note; an extremely deep bass made by any instrument or device you can think of. Keep imagining that note and […]
