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 A tentative blog to test the temperature. |
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Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end. So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.     |
| Light the Blue Touch Paper Thatās what it used to say on the instructions to fireworks when I was a kid. What the heck is ātouch paperā? Still beats me, but Iāve always known what colour blue is, so I figured it out. Today I remembered another little cracker bugbear of mine so letās do some lighting. It all concerns the difference between ādiffuseā and ādefuseā (the second turns out to be quite appropriate). It was when I was watching one of those little short videos that are all the rage on YouTube at the moment. Probably because our attention spans are so degraded now that shorts are about all we can cope with - but thatās another post. Anyway, in this video a guy starts on about a situation being ādiffused.ā Which means the situation got spread out all over the place and, as a result, became diluted. Now Iām prepared to bet that the guy didnāt mean that at all, judging by the context. What he should have said was that the situation became defused, meaning that the heat was taken out of a potentially explosive matter. And now we get the point of the title to this post. How can I be certain that I did not mishear what the feller said? The two words sound pretty similar when part of a sentence, itās true. But those short videos all seem to have captions so that, if the sound effects arenāt good, you can just read whatās said. And these confirmed that the guy was diffusing matters somewhat. Itās the kind of thing that gets my goat. So, if you donāt want this particular firework to blow up in your face, remember to diffuse your information but defuse any possible sources of trouble. Word count: 290 |
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But anyway, this was so well-written. Again, thank you.
now I have to unglaze my eyes 
