The Way Things Ought (Not?) To Be

Today my grandmoms and regularmom came out for lunch and visit. At lunch, our crossing conversation had me and my mom discussing a new addition to her sewing machine (it is, to my credit, a very high tech sewing machine) while my grandmas, one in a pink sweatshirt the other wearing a soft white sweater, discussed the weekend's playoff football action.

Palindrome Speaking

Two guys sitting next to us were talking about home furnishing and one said to the other, "They are the nicest wood floors I have ever seen. And I said that to him, I said, 'These are the nicest wood floors I have ever seen.'" I do this occasionally but it made me smile to know others fall into the trap as well. Palindrome speaking (a term which I just invented and hope to use regularly) is an awkward, dull and clumsy part of rhetoric, but there is something... neat about it.