Thursday, January 13, 2011

creolize \KREE-uh-lahyz\, verb:

1. To combine local and foreign elements into a new, distinct whole.

2. To render a pidgin into a distinct, spoken language.

Creolize is a verb alteration of creole, which derives from the Spanish criollo, "a person native to a locality."

hahaha

• To express on AIM when something was funny, because just 'haha' isn't that dramatic and can be used as just aknowledging when someone has said something.

Bobby31: ...they call it cheese and quackers!

Annette85: haha

Bobby31: oh come on it was funnier than that

Annette85: hahaha

Trivia

Which letter in the Greek alphabet is represented by a symbol that resembles a pitchfork?

• Psi, the 23rd letter. Its symbol is ψ.

History

• J'accuse: French journalist Emile Zola published his defense of Alfred Dreyfus, the army captain falsely convicted of treason because he was Jewish (1898)
• Henry Ford: patented his plastic car, which ran on ethanol; the plastic was soybean-based, and the car was unsuccessful (1942)
• L. Douglas Wilder: became the first African American elected governor of a US state — Virginia (1990)
• The Fantasticks: the world's longest-running musical ended its off-Broadway run after 17,162 shows and nearly 42 years (2002)

Birthdays

• Anna Marie Goddard (41): actress, Playmate
• Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873): Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; his picture is on the $10,000 bill
• Horatio Alger (1832-1899): writer of "rags-to-riches" stories; plus, gossip columnist Army Archerd (1922-2009)
• Félix Tisserand (1845-1896): astronomer for whom the Tisserand Crater was named
• Patrick Dempsey (45): GA's McDreamy, and the real-life prince charming of Enchanted; also, actors Sophie Tucker (1884-1966), Gwen Verdon (1925-2000), Frances Sternhagen (81), Charles Nelson Reilly (1931-2007), Rip Taylor (77), Richard Moll (68), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (50), Penelope Ann Miller (47), Nicole Eggert (39) and Orlando Bloom (34)