Do you know what Jenga is?
If I used it as a verb--he had a stack of tapes Jenga'd in the corner--would that make sense to you?
Insights appreciated. I thought everybody in the world knew and loved Jenga, but perhaps I am mistaken.
It's impossible bliss
RR
Rebecca Rosenblum...
is a writer and editor who likes a lot of stuff. This is a blog about that stuff, and also her writing. Rebecca is the writer-in-residence at Jean Vanier High School, and was a juror for The Journey Prize 21. Her work has been short-listed for the Journey Prize, the Danuta Gleed Award and the National Magazine Award. Her first book of short stories, Once, was published by Biblioasis and was one of Quill & Quire's 15 Books That Mattered in 2008. Rebecca's stories are occasionally seen in Canadian periodicals and her second collection, *The Big Dream,* is forthcoming from Biblioasis.
4 comments:
Of course, Jenga. Noun, verb anyway you cut it! Who has forgotten "you take the one from the bottom and you put it on top"??? FYI, you do know Christine is a Jenga Grandmaster? She is remarkably skilled.
I totally get it. Once we drove behind a legendarily-chaotically loaded flatbed truck which we still refer to today as "jenga", only because we so narrowly lived to tell the tale.
It would make sense to me. I love jenga. Jenga is a Swahili word, by the way. The infinitive is "Kujenga", which means "to build."
I knew my Swahili would come in hand outside Kenya one day.
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