Monday, September 8, 2008

Lexicographically Speaking: Recloving.

Words are meant to be discovered.

What does "recloving" mean? I wager its meaning to be the repetition of "cloving," perhaps after a failed attempt. What is cloving? Well, it almost sounds like clothing, so cloving might mean a more infantile version of clothing. I prefer a different definition though: cloving is what clovers do.

What do clovers do, then? According to folk legends, if you find a four-leaf clover, you are extremely lucky. Three-lead clovers, which are ten-thousand times more abundant than four-leaf clovers, can still represent that potential for luck. I suggest then that cloving is to wish someone luck, especially if that person is up against immeasurable odds. For example, "I cloved him to win the lottery."

Recloving, then, must mean either to clove someone a second time (which I find to be a somewhat lame definition), or to clove someone after a round of bad luck (which is a definition I love).

So, if you're feeling down, I reclove you to get back up on your own two feet and take to your new life -- the one starting today -- into the realm of the sublime. May your hapinesses be plenty.

If you aren't feeling down, I clove you to find it in yourself to help others who are less fortunate than you. If you believe a good or doable way to achieve this is by writing for New Happinesses, drop me a comment.

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