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#66 - Breakfast & Negativity

posted August 18, 2009 - 12:12pm
#66 - Breakfast & Negativity

I’ve been thinking...

I'm NOT always negative, actually I'm rarely negative, but my notes are NOT always negative is what I meant. In fact, the majority of them are not. More of them are poetry, about movies, advertising other's work, listing things that are awesome, etc. If you read one note, like maybe the way this one will end up, and then think you can classify my entire existence, you are a fool. Scratch that, odds state you are a fool anyway. And in the words of Eminem, "If you don't like me, blow me." I'm not forcing anyone to read these.
Ok, question: What the hell is going on with the word 'breakfast'?

It is supposedly derived from the concept that sleeping is a form of fasting, and therefore eating when you wake up is ending that fast. You are trying to 'break' the 'fast', or at least that’s what the first etymology site I came across said. But anyway, I'm fine with that, in fact I like it--I think it sounds pretty spectacular. My query is in why we say it the way we do.

It's commonly pronounced, ˈbrek-fəst, which as we all know sounds like a festival for brecks (whatever those are). Oktoberfest usually causes my family to have a large Breckfest the next morning.

I've even heard some people say 'Brefiss', but I don't really know what to do with that one.

Now, if I started saying "Would you like some break-fast" everywhere I went, people would think I was either retarded or pretentious, so why/when did it become acceptable to instead pronounce something wrong? Sure, there are lots of words in English that do not follow the rules, but they usually don't derive from two other words that do. I just don't understand how putting two words together changes the way they are both said. That would be like every time you say 'grilled cheese' you have to instead say, "grialed chess".

Oh yeah, and for the record (I'm not sure which record): My notes are awesome! If you don't agree with them, you must be wrong.

Have you ever peed in a dream, and been worried you were peeing in real-life?

-Gerald A. Dinkel (He just says things.)

http://sardonicconnection.blogspot.com/2009/04/66-breakfast-negativity.html



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