The Hidden Evil
Jun. 16th, 2012 08:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisySo here is a new and interesting thing: you can sign up to learn a word of Bininj Gunwok (a family of Aboriginal languages from Northern Australia) a few times a week.
This week's random word:
7. Purse
I have been puzzling about this all week, because I did not think I had any thoughts about purses. By 'purse', I mean a small pouch for holding coins or keys or whatnot. I know some people use the word to mean a bigger bag too, but that, to me, is a handbag. You can put a purse in a handbag, but you can't put a handbag in a purse. There is a grey area where the two intersect, and that is the clutch bag or clutch purse, but you can avoid problems by just calling it a clutch.
I have a purse in my handbag. It's a green-sequinned affair for holding three sets of keys. It's all right. I mean, it does the job. When I think of purses, the first one I think of the one my grandmother had in the 1970s, which I used to play with during Mass when I was very little. It was a gold Glomesh number, which I thought was the height of elegance (after looking at a large number of photos, I believe it to be the square gold purse in the first photo on this page). It had a beautifully smooth clicking mechanism, and I loved rubbing my finger over the purse itself and feeling the mesh rippling. For a very long time, I thought chain-mail was made of Glomesh. Imagine how funky those knights would have been: ready to battle by day, disco by night.
Next week: Ripple
This week's random word:
7. Purse
I have been puzzling about this all week, because I did not think I had any thoughts about purses. By 'purse', I mean a small pouch for holding coins or keys or whatnot. I know some people use the word to mean a bigger bag too, but that, to me, is a handbag. You can put a purse in a handbag, but you can't put a handbag in a purse. There is a grey area where the two intersect, and that is the clutch bag or clutch purse, but you can avoid problems by just calling it a clutch.
I have a purse in my handbag. It's a green-sequinned affair for holding three sets of keys. It's all right. I mean, it does the job. When I think of purses, the first one I think of the one my grandmother had in the 1970s, which I used to play with during Mass when I was very little. It was a gold Glomesh number, which I thought was the height of elegance (after looking at a large number of photos, I believe it to be the square gold purse in the first photo on this page). It had a beautifully smooth clicking mechanism, and I loved rubbing my finger over the purse itself and feeling the mesh rippling. For a very long time, I thought chain-mail was made of Glomesh. Imagine how funky those knights would have been: ready to battle by day, disco by night.
Next week: Ripple