Three more things
Jun. 21st, 2019 01:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ng_moonmothThese are from redsixwing:
hue: I have encountered it most often in the context of color theory, where it denotes the axis of some additive color models that, in more colloquial terms, describes "what color it is". At the same time, though, it makes an appearance in the phrase "hue and cry", where it represents a public signal that a crime has just been committed. And Huế is a city in central Vietnam that was very much in the news when I was a teenager, being the site of one of the longest and bloodiest battles during the Tet offensive of the war in progress at the time.
passage: What comes to mind for me is its use to designate a small, cohesive part of a creative work -- a story, a poem, a piece of music. Identifying key passages and seeing how they connect is something that helps me understand the work. Also coming to mind was the well-known and very popular song, "Northwest Passage", by Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers.
wasps: We have a few in the neighborhood. One time, they built a nest under our eaves, which we left alone through the warm season and knocked down without incident in the rainier, colder part of the year. A significant component of the diet of the ones we have in the area is meat. This means that when I am outside (where we do the stinky stuff) grinding the chopped liver I make for Passover, I often get some wasps coming over because they smell something good to eat. Makes the job a bit more interesting.
redsixwing:hue: I have encountered it most often in the context of color theory, where it denotes the axis of some additive color models that, in more colloquial terms, describes "what color it is". At the same time, though, it makes an appearance in the phrase "hue and cry", where it represents a public signal that a crime has just been committed. And Huế is a city in central Vietnam that was very much in the news when I was a teenager, being the site of one of the longest and bloodiest battles during the Tet offensive of the war in progress at the time.
passage: What comes to mind for me is its use to designate a small, cohesive part of a creative work -- a story, a poem, a piece of music. Identifying key passages and seeing how they connect is something that helps me understand the work. Also coming to mind was the well-known and very popular song, "Northwest Passage", by Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers.
wasps: We have a few in the neighborhood. One time, they built a nest under our eaves, which we left alone through the warm season and knocked down without incident in the rainier, colder part of the year. A significant component of the diet of the ones we have in the area is meat. This means that when I am outside (where we do the stinky stuff) grinding the chopped liver I make for Passover, I often get some wasps coming over because they smell something good to eat. Makes the job a bit more interesting.
