Little Farquaad hands.

Button Lust →

I started a button porn tumblelog.  It still needs a design and some more members.  So if you love buttons as much as I do, email me and I will make you a member so you can post about buttons too. (tiffanyarment@gmail.com)

Etymology in the Morning

Several similar linguistic concepts are related to homonymy. The term ‘homonym’ is ambiguous because there are a number of ways that two meanings can share the ‘same name’ and because the term is used in different ways by educated speakers, and these variant meanings are recorded by dictionaries. The terms homograph and homophone are however usually defined the same way as meaning “same spelling” and “same sound” respectively, and heteronym and homonym can be seen as respective subclasses of these.

• Homographs are words that share the same spelling regardless of how they are pronounced. Homographs may be pronounced the same, in which case they are also homophones – for example, bark (the sound of a dog) and bark (the skin of a tree). Alternatively they may be pronounced differently, in which case they are also heteronyms – for example, bow (the front of a ship) and bow (a type of knot). (“Homograph” also has a specialized meaning in typography, where it may be used as a synonym for homoglyph.)

• Homophones are words that share the same pronunciation regardless of how they are spelled. Homophones may be spelled the same (in which case they are also homographs) or spelled differently (in which case they are heterographs). Homographic examples include tire (to become weary) and tire (on the wheel of a car). Heterographic examples include to, too, two, and there, their, they’re.

• Heteronyms can be seen as the subclass of homographs (words that share the same spelling) that have different pronunciations. That is, they are homographs which are not homophones. This means words that are spelled the same but with different pronunciations (and meanings). Such words include desert (to abandon) and desert (arid region); row (to argue or an argument) and row (as in to row a boat or a row of seats). Note that the latter meaning also constitutes a homophone. Heteronyms are also sometimes called heterophones. (“Heteronym” also has a specialized meaning in poetry; see Heteronym (literature).)

• Homonyms can be seen as the subclass of homophones that are spelled the same, which is logically the same as the subclass of homographs that are pronounced the same. This means words that are spelled and pronounced the same (but have different meanings).

• Polysemes are words with the same spelling and distinct but related meanings. The distinction between polysemy and homonymy is often subtle and subjective, and not all sources consider polysemous words to be homonyms. Words such as “mouth”, meaning either the orifice on one’s face, or the opening of a cave or river, are polysemous and may or may not be considered homonyms.

• Capitonyms are words that share the same spelling but have different meanings when capitalized (and may or may not have different pronunciations). Such words include polish (to make shiny) and Polish (from Poland).

In derivation, homograph means “same writing”, homophone means “same sound”, heteronym means “different name”, and heterophone means “different sound”.

( copied from wikipedia )

I’m so into this kind of information.  I feel like it wakes up my mind. 

If you also like this, check out a great podcast, The WordNerds. 

You’re such a nerd!

TeaBeans: Snowy Day Sweater Dress

My friend Katie makes beautiful things and I wish she sold them on Etsy or somewhere, because I would buy one of everything.  

An Evening on Etsy

Vintage Circular Button Bracelet

seller  vintagerehab

Tara, we found your future Brooklyn apartment.

“Omegle sounds like a boardgame where the object is to win penicillin.”

— lonelysandwich

Even the boxes are gleaming.

My new Ginghers arrived today! (spring-action dress shears, snips, and leather scissors.)

Where did you get that amazing swimsuit? 

(via jellyfrances)

Marco and Tiff go to Brooklyn, Part 2 (see Part 1)

With a more in-depth tour of Park Slope, we saw our first apartments and narrowed down the parts of the neighborhood that we prefer. We also learned some useful information from realtors.Most 2-bedroom units are priced with the assumption that they’ll be split between roommates, and they don’t tend to be significantly larger than 1-bedrooms. This is in line with what we’ve seen, even in Westchester over the last few years — we’ve never seen a 2-bedroom that seemed spacious. There are too many walls and doors and hallways. Even the 1100-sq.ft. 2-bedrooms we’ve seen have been cramped and poorly laid out.

We only wanted the second room for an office/guest bedroom, but many 1-bedroom units have enough space or extra alcoves to accommodate that. So we’re broadening our search to large 1-bedrooms, and the listings already look significantly better. Hopefully it turns out that way in real life, too.

(via marco)

marco:

The camera gets better, but the purse stays the same.

And I switched purses three times this morning before choosing this one. 

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”

— Susan Sontag (via thresca)

Red sky at night, sailor's delight

Tonight there is a red sky…

"When we see a red sky at night, this means that the setting sun is sending its light through a high concentration of dust particles. This usually indicates high pressure and stable air coming in from the west. Basically good weather will follow." 

-fun science facts from The Library of Congress

I was analog all day today. When I got home I was about to get my camera out to dump the pictures onto my computer. Oops.

And I just bought a dress from the shop next door (teddy). I love Brooklyn!

This is offically my new favorite coffee drink (maple latte) and new favorite clothing store. We need to move to Brooklyn right now.

This is how Marco decided where he wanted us to go for our Brooklyn tour part 2.  (He sent this to me in an email while I was at work yesterday.)

“SALLY ANN PARSONS (TDF/Irene Sharaff Artisan Award.) has owned and operated Parsons-Meares Ltd., a full service costume shop, since 1980. Broadway shows for which costumes have been created include: Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, The Lion King, Sunset Boulevard, Starlight Express, Will Rogers Follies, Guys and Dolls, Wonderful Town, Kiss Me Kate, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Wicked. Film and televison work includes: Fame, Far From Heaven, Bram Stoker´s Dracula, The Cotton Club and Captain Eo and the Space Knights with Michael Jackson. Ballet company clients include: The Joffery Ballet, Feld Ballet and Ballet Tech, ABT, Alvin Ailey, Houston Ballet and San Francisco Ballet. Spectacle and circus costumes have been created for Bette Midler´s The Showgirl Must Go On, Siegfeid and Roy, Disney Ice Shows, Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus, Walt Disney Theme Parks and Busch Gardens. A member of the United Scenic Artists Guild 829, Sally Ann´s design work has included the Joffrey Ballet and much of the downtown dance world.”

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Sally Ann and Parsons-Meares, will be receiving an award tonight! 

TDF - Theatre Development Fund  

Marco and Tiff go to Brooklyn, Part 1

We’re thinking about moving to Brooklyn, but we don’t know much about it, so we took a quick tour of some neighborhoods that our friends had recommended and looked nice from Craigslist: Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights, and Park Slope.

Verdict: Park Slope wins.

Ignoring opinions on pricing (which actually seems very reasonable to us), why shouldn’t we live there?

(via marco)