Saturday, February 23, 2008

Muffin top and other misc thoughts

Muffin top: (noun)
Literally, this refers to the top of a muffin. In the context of popular culture, "muffin top" figuratively refers to the flesh that pours over the top when women wear extremely tight jeans. Personally, I don't understand the appeal, but to each his own. Anything goes in San Francisco.

Keeping in line with random thoughts... this morning as I was sitting in the classroom one hour before Italian class was to start, I was wondering why some languages like Italian and German among others give inanimate objects genders, while English just uses the word neutral word "the". This is fascinating. I'm sure a linguist would be able to answer this.

The picture above was taken in the new Westfield shopping center on Market Street.

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