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According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

Roy Blount, Jr.
Arbitrary, Relation, Scholar
Roy Blount, Jr. (2009). “Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory”, p.10, Macmillan

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

Roy Blount, Jr.
Thinking, Scary, Lines

I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.

Roy Blount, Jr.
Weed, Thinking, Solitary

Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at the printout and snarl and curse and scribble almost illegibly all over it with a ballpoint pen. Go back to the machine and enter the scribbles. Repeat this procedure until I hate the very meaning of every word I know.

Roy Blount, Jr.
Hate, Machines, Keyboards

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

Roy Blount, Jr.
Running, Thinking, People

I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.

Roy Blount, Jr.
Writing, Thinking, Smooth

Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the flavor that I grew up with. I enjoy saying some things with a Southern accent.

Roy Blount, Jr.
People, Southern, Flavor

New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.

Roy Blount, Jr.
New York, Exercise, Walking

It was easy to make fun of Bush, but it was sort of like shooting fish in a barrel and it didn't really feel all that good because it was so easy to do. I would much rather live under a thoughtful president. Even if it makes it harder to be funny about politics, it makes it more interesting to be funny about politics.

Roy Blount, Jr.
Fun, Thoughtful, Interesting

I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them.

Roy Blount, Jr.
Fun, People
"MoJo Podcast: Roy Blount Jr.’s Southern Fried Language". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2009.

I do some eccentric dancing.

Roy Blount, Jr.
Dancing, Eccentric

When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.

Roy Blount, Jr.
Weed, Wife, Trouble

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