… MORE "Learning"

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In "SPEECH-Therapy" RECENTLY, my Therapist COMPLIMENTED my IMPROVING tongue-movement!
I was FLATTERED … but CURIOUS … about the MOUTH:
I KNOW the word for "OF or PERTAINING TO the LIPS" is "LABIAL".
The word for "OF or PERTAINING TO SPEECH" is "LINGUAL".
The word for "OF or PERTAINING TO the MOUTH" is "ORAL".
The word for "OF or PERTAINING TO the TEETH" is "DENTAL".
So, WHAT's "OF or PERTAINING TO the TONGUE"?!
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My "Therapist" CONFIRMED that the word IS, in FACT,
"LINGUAL"

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"With its SELF-depricating humor, 'Milk Duds' are the MOST CALMING of the boxed-candies."
(--Sheldon, 'The Big Bang Theory')

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So, I attended a LECTURE today … AT my former SEMI-"graduate school".
(… What a GREAT "talk"/lecture!)
(… 'Cuz it was about SCIENCE)
(… Well, "SCALING", to be specific)

-- During the lecture, ONE slide "broke it down … for the 'LAYMAN'":
"Science we can ALL Understand:"

-- … ANOTHER slide "highlighted" a … FAN-tastic point:
"To be 'Scientifically-LITERATE'
is to 'EMPOWER yourself' to KNOW when someone else is 'full-of-CRAP'."
(--Neil DeGrasse Tyson)
(… Ergo, you've GOTTA be able to "READ … people".)

-- For/In a CUBE, the "surface-area" is INVERSELY-related to its "volume".
(… 'Tis VERY-TRUE!  But, I'm A BIT disappointed … in MYSELF … for NOT "putting TWO & TWO TOGETHER" & realizing this "relationship" earLIER!)

-- The speaker CONFIRMED my INTUITIVE-"gut-feeling" that
"a smallER MASS (GENERALLY … & RELATIVELY) denotes a greatER STRENGTH".
((… Said speaker DID this by citing the FASCINATING work of Jonathon Swift (specifically ''Gulliver's Travels'').))

-- I told my buddy that I KNEW EVERYTHING the Speaker said--about MATH (which was ~66.67% of what he "COMMENTED-ON").  So, my housemate--who (THANKFULLY!) set me up with the "LECTURE"--commented to ME:
"DoN'T you think you're thinkin' VERY Brobdingnagian about YOUR--SUPPOSED--MATH-expertise?!"
MY reply: "WHAT was that DESCRIPTIVE-word you used for MY FACTUAL MATH-PROWESS?"
Him: "Brobdingnagian."
ME: "WHAT?!  Say it again."
Him: "Brobdingnagian."
ME: "Now, THREE times FAST."
Him: "Brobdingnagian.  Brobdingnagian.  Brobdingnagian."
(… I chuckle.)
Him: "WHAT was the POINT of YOUR 'SCREWIN'-AROUND'?!"
MY response: … "To 'PISS-you-OFF'!
Him: "'Tou-CHE'!"



P.S. "Brobdingnagian" means
"of HUGE-size; gigantic; tremendous".



In CONCLUSION, this GREAT lecture INSPIRED ME to POSSIBLY "give a 'LECTURE'--WITH my (SPEAKING) buddy … "down the line".
(… Say … about "NOT 'judging' a BOOK by its COVER"?)
(… He replied in the AFFIRMATIVE!)


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