Stick-to-it-iveness isn’t always a good thing!
Posted: February 16, 2019 in Six-Word SaturdayTags: cacti, cactus, humor, sharp, Six-Word Saturday, stick-to-itiveness
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Tags: cacti, cactus, humor, sharp, Six-Word Saturday, stick-to-itiveness
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This is a great image Janet. Wishing you a lovely weekend.
Thanks, Su. Unfortunately, I have to work today for six hours and tomorrow afternoon/evening for about 6. My weekend was Thursday and Friday. 😦
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You do an exceptional job with play on words. 🙂
🙂 I do enjoy it and it seems to be how my mind works.
Prickly business! Ouch!
Enjoy from a distance! 🙂
That’s an interesting new word! An a lovely, albeit prickly, image
It’s actually a word: “Sticktoitiveness—meaning dogged perseverance—regularly appears in three forms: the unhyphenated form, stick-to-it-iveness, and stick-to-itiveness. The three-hyphened form was most common when the word came about in the U.S. in the late 19th century (as attested by the OED‘s examples and in historical news searches). But today, the two-hyphened stick-to-itiveness is most common, and the unhyphenated form is still comparatively rare. The last form is steadily gaining ground, though, and is likely to prevail in the near future, if the word stays in the language.” I thought it was perfect for this image. 🙂
janet
I love, love this ~ reminds me of my mom who loved indoor plants – especially cacti. She had quite a few and they loved my bedroom window. Every time I went to window to either crack it open or close it – one of her little devils would bite me! I swear they can shoot their little needles! My mom insisted it was their way of blowing a kiss. Now, many years later…..I have a few cacti. Mine seem tame compared to my mom’s. Or maybe, I paid my dues thru years of tolerating their ‘signs of affection’. 🙂
Shooting their needles. Could feel like that. There are people who believe porcupines can shoot their quills, but I’ve never heard anyone thinking cacti can do that. 🙂
I know, I am certain they cannot however, it seemed as if they did – just a silly memory of when I was a kid. and your picture spawned it! I thank you for that 🙂
I understand!! 😉
Ouch! Oh that looks like it would be painful. Beautiful image, though.
It could be painful if you got too close, that’s for sure! But they certainly are beautiful.
janet
Aua! (= ouch in German, one falls back on one’s native tongue in situation like these 😀 ) But I like the photo very much. And if I’d used sticktoitiveness in a sentence, I’m sure everybody would have corrected me!
Veilen dank. Glad you like the photo. Reminds me a bit of those long German words that are three or four words al put together. 🙂
janet
Theoretically, we can make infinite words … 😀
I know! 🙂
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(one word, no hyphen) (die, 79 letters, 80 with the new German spelling that adds one more ‘f’ in …dampfschifffahrts…)
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Ouch!
Only if you get too close.
janet
Isn’t language a bizarre thing? I was astounded to read that this is a word, Janet. 🙂 🙂 Nice photo, though.
Language is quite interesting, that’s for sure. I think this is quite a good word, don’t you?
A bit clumsy 🙂 🙂
Pointillism at it’s finest.
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🙂 True.
janet
Ouch! I stepped on one of these needles in my brother’s yard in Scottsdale. Horrific pain!!!!
Ooo, I can’t imagine how that must have hurt!
Hehehe! You got me! When I read your title, I thought it would be about sticktoitiveness that crosses the line into pig-headedness! My kindergarten teacher used to use the word sticktoitiveness ALL the TIME. It was usually preceded by the descriptive phrase “good old American”. Brings to mind another odd word: jingoism.
Nice composition.
Thanks.
janet
LOL! Nope, it’s not.
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A rather prickly subject. 😳
Just so!