Friday, February 03, 2006

Nattering???

Well, I made my second appearance of the semester to French class on Thursday. Don't mind that we are in the third week of class, I don't. Anyways there is a girl in my class who used the word nattering in conversation. I called her on it, saying that you shouldn't just make up words. Anyways after further discussion I told her to go to
and make an entry for the word if there was not one. Well I went to wikipedia and sure enough there was an entry for natter.
Here is the definition given:
A word to describe talking without content (similar to 'yammer').
The girl in my class had said it was more like bird chatter except among humans. Anyways the situation was kinda amusing.

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