Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Prompt Intuition

Prompt is an adjective and means to be on time, punctual.

Prompting is much more interesting!
The action of saying something to persuade, encourage, or remind someone to do or say something.

They pay people in the theater and possibly on movie sets to prompt to the actors.
The verb form of prompt would be synonomous with urge, persuade, instigate.

Do you ever sense an inner prompting? To do or say something? I think this could be called intuition. Do you listen to your intuition? Promptings are messages that are so urgent we act on them promptly, sorta like we can't ignore them. But we do anyway. Why do we ignore our promptings? I will expand on this on Musinglog. In this article, I would just like to prompt you to listen to your inner promptings and act on them promptly. You won't regret it.  Thank you!

Monday, February 18, 2013

Presidents Day

Is it Presidents Day today? Officially we are celebrationg George Washington's birthday, which was February 22, 1732. So is it President's Day with or without the apostrophe? Common usage says its OK not to use the apostrophe, since we now use nouns as adjectives anyway. But the dictionary and word historians say it should be Presidents' Day, even though legally and officially it is only Washington's birthday. Lincoln's Birthday was never a federal holiday, though many states celebrated it and all the car dealerships have commercials with both Lincoln and Washington. Four US presidents have birthdays in February: Lincoln, Feb. 12, Washington, Feb. 22, William Henry Harrison, Feb. 9, and Ronald Reagan, Feb. 6. So I conclude that Macy's is correct when the advertise their sale as
Presidents' Day One Day Sale.