Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Language Lovers Rock

Interjections (Hey!) show excitement (Hey!) or emotion (Hey!).

Hey, hurray and wow!!! This blog has been nominated as one of Lexiophiles Top 100 Language Lovers Blogs in the "Language Professionals" category. I couldn't be more thrilled (and honored). Thank you to all who sent nominations. This means that A Walk in the WoRds made it to the official voting phase. Yippee!

Now...if it's not too much to ask and if you feel that this blog reaches my goal of promoting an appreciation and understanding of language through entertaining and educational posts, please enter your official vote for A Walk in the WoRds by clicking on the link below and following the voting instructions.



I will now leave you with the complete lyrics to SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK's Interjections!

(Cough! Cough! Cough!)
When Reginald was home with the flu, uh-huh-huh,
The doctor knew just what to do-hoo.
He cured the infection
With one small injection
While Reginald uttered some interjections..

Hey! That smarts!
Ouch! That hurts!
Yow! That's not fair givin' a guy a shot down there!

Interjections (Hey!) show excitement (Yow!) or emotion (Ouch!).
They're generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point,
Or by a comma when the feeling's not as strong.

Though Geraldine played hard to get, uh-huh-huh
Geraldo knew he'd woo her ye-het
He showed his affection
Despite her objections
And Geraldine hollered some interjections...

Well! You've got some nerve!
Oh! I've never been so insulted in all my life!
Hey! You're kinda cute!

Interjections (Well!) show excitement (Oh!) or emotion (Hey!).
They're generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point,
Or by a comma when the feeling's not as strong.

So when you're happy (Hurray!) or sad (Aw!)
Or frightened (Eeeeeek!) or mad (Rats!)
Or excited (Wow!) or glad (Hey!)
An interjection starts a sentence right.

The game was tied at seven all, uh-huh-huh,
When Franklin found he had the ba-hall.
He made a connection
In the other direction,
And the crowd started shouting out interjections...

Aw! You threw the wrong way!
Darn! You just lost the game!
Hurray! I'm for the other team!

Interjections (Aw!) show excitement (Darn!) or emotion (Hurray!).
They're generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point,
Or by a comma when the feeling's not as strong.

So when you're happy (Hurray!) or sad (Aw!)
Or frightened (Eeeeeek!) or mad (Rats!)
Or excited (Wow!) or glad (Hey!)
An interjection starts a sentence right.

Interjections (Hey!) show excitement (Hey!) or emotion (Hey!).
They're generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point,
Or by a comma when the feeling's not as strong.

Interjections show excitement or emotion,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah... YEA!

Darn! That's the end!

2 comments:

Tours of the Sistine Chapel said...

School House Rock brings back a lot of memories from grade school. Congratulations on the nomination! Hopefully your excitement will radiate into votes :)
Sara

Laura Payne said...

Sara - Thank you; I hope so too.

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