Wuzzles
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Angels and Mariners...bottom of second...one down...and, a ground out...two down...Angels go from playing first place World Champion Astros to last place Mariners...a contrast that doesn't have the same certainty of losing or winning in baseball that it does in other sports...Mariners made out...to top of second...more double words: just any two things side by side is a match cut, even if they are identical, I'm thinking...even if they are twins...twins invite scrutiny to see which is which!...our thoughts can't be at peace with two things...two things stir a reasonable observation, a caption...hmmph...I dunno...two down for Angels...words themselves are made from words blending together...single words that are double words...bumblelions...Angels make out...to bottom of second...
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The Wuzzles is an animated television series created for Saturday morning television, and was first broadcast on September 14, 1985 on CBS. An idea of Michael Eisner for his new Disney television animation studio, the premise is that the main characters are hybrids of two different animals.
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The Wuzzles features a variety of short, rounded animal characters (each called a Wuzzle, which means to mix up). Each is a roughly even, and colorful, mix of two different animal species (as the theme song mentions, "livin' with a split personality"), and all the characters sport wings on their backs, although only Bumblelion and Butterbear are seemingly capable of flight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wuzzles
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Angels made out...to bottom of third...two down...Trout back in the outfield, Ohtani back at DH...'wuzzle'...???...coined...not a scrabble word!...Mariners make out...to top of third...having imagined takes on double words, I'm reaching for double images...which in fact are match cuts...there's something kind of metaphysical philosophical about the notion of double words...like our stream of consciousness is stepping from match cut to match cut...very quickly to be sure...but if slowed down, like the frames of a film strip...hmmph...anyway, blended words:
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One of the reasons I like blended words so much is because they show linguistic creativity! Blended words are symbols of how languages grow, change, and reflect current culture.
Here are is a list of common blended words in English:
blog (web + log) = a regularly updated website, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style – this is a BLOG!
brunch (breakfast + lunch) = a large meal eaten at a time between breakfast and lunch, replacing the two meals with one instead. (Eating brunch is very common on weekend days in America.)
https://blogs.transparent.com/english/blended-words-in-english/
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Angels made out...to bottom of fourth...Mainers made out...to top of fifth...Trout up...fly out...Ohtani up...K, and the inning is over..to bottom of fourth...
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In linguistics, a blend word or a blend is a word formed from parts of two or more other words. These parts are sometimes, but not always, morphemes.
Blends abridge then combine lexemes to form a new word. Defining a true blend is complicated by the difficulty of determining which parts of the new word are "recoverable" (have roots which can be distinguished).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blend_word
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right away in this, I reach the limit of my being able to grasp the gist of complicated things!...
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The most essential part; the main idea or substance (of a longer or more complicated matter); the crux of a matter; the pith.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gist
dictionary entries can be encyclopedic...lead off runners for the Mariners on two walks...don't know but my posts are dictionary like, encyclopedia like, very much wiki like...I have some 'gist' in mind, my 'reach', reach in the sense of climbing from one rung to another, one hand hold to another, one stepping stone to another...actually, reaches are like a sequence of match cuts...fump...three run home run for Mariners...Mariners 3-0...baseball games go along from one swing of the bat, one pitch to the next...the gist of baseball is baseball!...lol...a dictionary gives all the aspects of a word, its meaning, history, everything, and, it seems, every word somewhere emerges from a misty past...but, consider what makes understanding...food and hunger, thirst and water...things always come in pairs...oh, there's a philosophical take on this...somewhere...we only perceive the familiar, because we are always pairing things...this thing is like that thing...in animals sometime blind spots show...on the Galapagos was a scene of a sea bird fighting off another hawk like bird to protect their egg, which was just set on open ground...then a lizard, and iguana maybe, comes along and eats the egg...and the sea bird did nothing...narration has it that the sea bird has an adaptive blind spot...it hasn't yet connected iguanas with being a threat to their eggs...all the creatures on the Galapagos are new to one another, evolutionary speaking!...or some such...easier to see the gist here is the circumstance of birds flying willy nilly into electricity generating windmills...they haven't learned yet they are dangerous...Deer in the Valley sometimes looked to know how to wait for traffic, and then cross a road...blind spots...this almost to say, if we haven't seen something before, we really don't even see it...Astros made out...Astros 3-0...well, I could go a dozen different ways here...top of fifth...two down...three down...to bottom of fifth...blended words for sometime...for now, blended images, blended motifs, blended enigmas, match cuts!...trying to think of examples of what images the ancients blended together, the Moche's Strombus Monster first came to mind!...
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http://imagenyfotos.blogspot.com/2015/08/monstruo-mochica-strombus.html?spref=pi
http://treeinthedoorvideo.blogspot.com/2018/07/otinotes71818.html
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disconcerting to find my copy/pastes in google's images under 'moche strombus monster'!...but the ancients seem to have been just crazy for blendings...Calhoun with a diving catch...one out, one runner on...sphinxes, chimeras, wuzzles galore...hybrids!...that's the word...each word a kind of hybrid of previous words...don't know but an eagle is a kind of bumblelion...forelegs become wings...evolution a combining...another home run by Volgelback...six rbis in last two innings...Astros 8-0...baseball has these weird coincidences...patterns...
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Hybrid beasts are creatures composed of parts from different animals, appear in the folklore of a variety of cultures as legendary creatures.
Assyrian Shedu from the entrance to the throne room of the palace of Sargon II at Dur-Sharrukin (late 8th century BC), excavated by Paul-Émile Botta, 1843–1844, now at the Department of Oriental antiquities, Richelieu wing of the Louvre.
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Partly human hybrids appear in petroglyphs or cave paintings from the Upper Paleolithic, in shamanistic or totemistic contexts. Ethnologist Ivar Lissner theorized that cave paintings of beings combining human and animal features were not physical representations of mythical hybrids, but were instead attempts to depict shamans in the process of acquiring the mental and spiritual attributes of various beasts or power animals.[2] Religious historian Mircea Eliade has observed that beliefs regarding animal identity and transformation into animals are widespread.[3] The iconography of the Vinca culture of Neolithic Europe in particular is noted for its frequent depiction of an owl-beaked "bird goddess",[4] although this interpretation is being criticized as feminist archeology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_beasts_in_folklore#Paleolithic
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well, no...what's going on is word blending...pictograph blending...the gist of a bull gets blended with the gist of a king...a match cut...Angels made out...to bottom of sixth...Mariners made out...to top of seventh...
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Theriocephaly (from Greek θηρίον therion 'beast' and κεφαλή kefalí 'head') is the anthropomorphic condition or quality of having the head of an animal – commonly used to refer the depiction in art of humans (or deities) with animal heads.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theriocephaly
Therianthropy is the mythological ability of human beings to metamorphose into other animals by means of shapeshifting. It is possible that cave drawings found at Les Trois Frères, in France, depict ancient beliefs in the concept. The most well known form of therianthropy is found in stories concerning werewolves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therianthropy
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it all seems strange, but, in truth, no stranger than what we do with words all the time, combining things as we do to make a word...Angels made out...more runs for the Mariners...Mariners 10-0...I watched a youtube clip about making a replica statue in marble...thought being to see how stone work is done now, and learn how maybe the ancients did it...as it happens, clips were of Daphne and Apollo, Bernini's take in stone of the Greek myth retold by Ovid in the Metamorphosis...
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Apollo and Daphne is a story from ancient Greek mythology, retold by Hellenistic and Roman authors in the form of an amorous vignette.
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Between 1622 and 1625, Gian Lorenzo Bernini sculpted a Baroque life-sized marble statue entitled Apollo and Daphne.
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In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book I: Apollo and Daphne, Ovid uses animals to make the emotions of characters more relatable to the reader. Ovid characterizes Apollo's pursuit for Daphne as more animalistic than human, and creates the metaphor of a predator and its prey to show the connection between the two. Ovid writes, "sic agna lupum, sic cerva leonem, sic aquilam penna fugiunt trepidante columbae," meaning, "Thus a young lamb flees the wolf, thus the doe flees the lion, thus the dove flees the eagle, wing trembling."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_and_Daphne#The_myth
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here's clip about Bernini's statue...really good...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdnPdZMZ9PU
Trout up...there's one down in the top of seventh...lines out, again...third time this game...two down...Ohtani up...ground out...to bottom of seventh...Mariners working on a perfect game...no hits, no walks for the Angels...
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Boios (Βοῖος), Latinized Boeus, was a Greek grammarian and mythographer, remembered chiefly as the author of a lost work on the transformations of mythic figures into birds, his Ornithogonia, which was translated into Latin by Aemilius Macer, a friend of Ovid, who was the author of the most familiar such collections of metamorphoses. In the 2nd century CE, Antoninus Liberalis gave extremely brief summaries of the contents of some of the myths collected in Ornithogonia.
Boiai, Latinized Boeae, was a village in Lacedaemon, at the head of the Gulf of Laconia, that, as Pausanias was informed, had been founded by the eponymous Boeus, one of the Heracleidae (Pausanias, iii.22.12).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boios
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two down...I gathered that in as I wanted to look at:
"The iconography of the Vinca culture of Neolithic Europe in particular is noted for its frequent depiction of an owl-beaked "bird goddess",...
Vinca culture bird goddesses:
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The term Bird goddess was coined by Marija Gimbutas with relation to figurines attributed to the neolithic Vinca culture. These figurines show female bodies combined with a bird's head. The interpretation as "goddess" is part of Gimbutas' program of feminist archaeology depicting the European neolithic as a "gynocentric" culture which would be ousted by the "patriarchal" Indo-European cultures with the onset of the Bronze Age.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_goddess
ral...and there I am back to 'feminist archaeology'!...
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Gimbutas also identified a "Lady of the Beasts" (the female analogon of Pashupati), a bear goddess and a snake goddess.
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what's that?...'analogon'...Mariners made out...to top of eighth...one down...Calhoun grounds out...Fletcher up...Fletch get a hit!...eesh...ground out to third...to bottom of eighth...
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- analogue (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (philosophy) According to Sartre, an equivalent of perception (such as a painting or a mental image) that is necessary for the process of imagination to take place.
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that, that looks like my musing above:
"oh, there's a philosophical take on this...somewhere...we only perceive the familiar, because we are always pairing things"
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Sartre says that what is required for the imaginary process to occur is an analogon—that is, an equivalent of perception. This can be a painting, a photograph, a sketch, or even the mental image we conjure when we think of someone or something. Through the imaginary process, the analogon loses its own sense and takes on the sense of the object it represents. Again, we are not deluded. But at some level the photograph of my father ceases being merely colors on paper and instead stands in for my absent father. I then have a tendency to ascribe the feelings I have about my father to the picture of him. Thus, an analogon can take on new qualities based on my own intention toward it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imaginary_(Sartre)
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I dunno...Simmons came out of the game...Fletcher at short...last Sunday Angels wooped the Mariners 15-0...now, behind 10- 0...and being perfect gamed!...it was against the Mariners that the Angels just had their combined no hitter...providence is a palindrome!...
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https://wiki2.org/en/Palindrome
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top of ninth...Regnifo up...base hit!...oh, that's mean to fans hoping for no hitter perfect game...such is fate...that image is a word square...sense to be had reading across, down, up, diagonally...and it's in Latin from Herculaneum...W...two runners on...Thais ground out...looking at Vinca culture figurines...and, those for tomorrowmorrow!...pop out...Trout up...2-2 the count...crowd booing the last call...needless to say, fan wear hats with trout on top...K...Mariners 10-0...one hit shutout...
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Palindromes date back at least to 79 AD, as a palindrome was found as a graffito at Herculaneum, a city buried by ash in that year. This palindrome, called the Sator Square, consists of a sentence written in Latin: "Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas" ("The sower Arepo holds with effort the wheels"). It is remarkable for the fact that the first letters of each word form the first word, the second letters form the second word, and so forth. Hence, it can be arranged into a word square that reads in four different ways: horizontally or vertically from either top left to bottom right or bottom right to top left. As such, they can be referred to as palindromatic.[citation needed]
Palindromes date back at least to 79 AD, as a palindrome was found as a graffito at Herculaneum, a city buried by ash in that year. This palindrome, called the Sator Square, consists of a sentence written in Latin: "Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas" ("The sower Arepo holds with effort the wheels"). It is remarkable for the fact that the first letters of each word form the first word, the second letters form the second word, and so forth. Hence, it can be arranged into a word square that reads in four different ways: horizontally or vertically from either top left to bottom right or bottom right to top left. As such, they can be referred to as palindromatic.[citation needed]
Palindromes date back at least to 79 AD, as a palindrome was found as a graffito at Herculaneum, a city buried by ash in that year. This palindrome, called the Sator Square, consists of a sentence written in Latin: "Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas" ("The sower Arepo holds with effort the wheels"). It is remarkable for the fact that the first letters of each word form the first word, the second letters form the second word, and so forth. Hence, it can be arranged into a word square that reads in four different ways: horizontally or vertically from either top left to bottom right or bottom right to top left. As such, they can be referred to as palindromatic.[citation needed]
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