***WARNING*** This post also strives to be a part of the "I need to write SOMETHING" series. It falls slightly short and rather awkwardly on its face by becoming only a string of mostly unrelated and almost certainly (what does that even mean?) incoherent sentences. You are obviously reading at your own risk but the question is - why?
Articulation is defined as "The action of putting into words an idea or feeling of a specified type" by one or the other online dictionaries which abound on the interweb (yes, because interweb is way cooler than internet (because one is in reference to the cunning device spun out of the glands of an arachnid and the other is to the cunning device developed by the humans to catch the pisces). Also, since I learnt the tips and tricks of googling, and managed to remember only that define:
The point that I've been meandering my way to, is this - I've lost all sense of articulation. One look at the previous post will tell you as much. I started out with an agenda in mind but by the time I was done writing, I was left wondering what on Earth I was smoking (It is a metaphor, I don't smoke. I'm a mind-numbingly goody two shoes person. I clarify a lot, sorry. I also apologize a lot, sorry.)
Hence I decided, solely for my benefit, to try and pinpoint where exactly this loss occurred. Turns out it wasn't thievery, I seem to have lost the ability all on my own.
Level of articulation in "I Just Learned Forming Words" era : "Mommmeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Cart wheel toe owwwwwwwwwwwwwwww" (I wasn't injured while doing a cartwheel (although I could have been), but a cart wheel rolled over my tiny toe).
Level of articulation in "Words Are Fun" era : "You shouldn't hit me. I've heart disease. When I run very fast, I become breathless and my heart pounds like anything" (This to a bully who stole (or rather forced me to give up) my food and threatened fellow students with dire consequences if her targets (there were quite a few of us) were allowed to leave the classroom during the recess without her permission. It ended when she was transferred to another class because some of the targets' parents had words with the teachers. It was a short episode and I probably wasn't scarred for life).
Level of articulation in "OHMYGOD ILOVETHEDICTIONARY" era : "...This parvenu was flung into the limelight and this caused inexplicable paroxysms in the intelligentsia, not to mention the aphorisms he helped spin..." (Do I even need explain this? I took the teacher's "five words from the dictionary each day" quite seriously and plunged headlong into a life riddled with (long) moments of debating with oneself if a thing was (or was not) a catachresis).
Level of articulation in "English Is No More A Real Subject" era : "... Giggle giggle giggle... Formula for calculating the attenuation in fiber optics is... Oh God! The lousy lecturer is allowing us to bunk classes. How lame. Let's go lunch outside... Giggle giggle giggle... Oh Man! I misplaced the microcontroller chip again. My lab partner will murder me..."
Level of articulation, present day : "That is so...."
Suggestion 1 : "Infuriating?"
"No."
Suggestion 2 : "Frustrating?"
"No. No."
Suggestion 3 : "I give up."
"Dumb! That's the word was looking for!"
Hand to God, if the verbal skills deteriorate any further, I'll have to wire the jaws shut and explain via the medium of pen and paper that the vestigial organ previously known as my mouth was causing a lot of problems by getting my foot in it all the time. Also, I really need to learn to finish sentences. The "let it hang in the air" only works if both the parties involved understand the... the... *Oh man!*
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