It's Tuesday, which means it's a good day to laugh. You're probably quaeritating, "Why is it a good day to laugh?" Well, I'll give you two reasons...

1. This video of Axis of Awesome's hilarious song, "4 Chords", which reveals the hidden-in-plain-sight truth that one only needs to know four chords to write a hit pop song.

It also explains why I like so many of these songs, which is both enlightening and embarrassing. (I thought my musical tastes were more sophisticated than a basic combination of chords, but I was sadly mistaken. Apparently.) On a brighter note, I'm feeling more inspired than ever to try my hand at songwriting.

(found via Neatorama)

2. Save the Words. It's a campaign dedicated to saving words that have been dropped from the dictionary due to disuse or to make room for new words. To keep these words from disappearing from the English language forever, the site encourages folks to adopt a word and use that word as often as possible in everyday conversation and correspondence.

Now, when I started researching this cause, I was rather skeptical, especially after looking at a sampling of the words (and their definitions). I mean, some of them were simply ridiculous. But then I thought, "What if they are real words? How could I let a word that made me laugh out loud die -- never to be said or read again? I wouldn't be able to live with myself."

That's why I adopted the word "quaeritate", which means "to ask", as in "There was a question he wanted to quaeritate her, but his courage failed him." It's a word that brings a smile to my face every time I mispronounce it. With any luck, it will be a word future generations will be able to mispronounce, too.

(found via Digital Inspiration)

Happy Tuesday.