April 28, 2011 Theme: Proverbs and Myths

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

At this past Thursday's Linguists of Listowel, we had yet another great meeting. We had 14 members in attendance. Keith McCluskie called the meeting to order and Richard Boertien was our chair for the meeting. Rich introduced our theme for the evening of "Proverbs & Myths" by telling us what proverbs and myths are. Throughout the meeting he shared with us some very interesting and funny examples.

Lorna VanderPloeg held the role of Toast and Timer and she gave our toast to Canada. Rich also held the role of Grammarian and he challenged us to use the word "Pecker-wood" which means a rural white southerner. It was used 7 times. For Literary Corner, Jane Stoltz read some happiness proverbs and myths that she found on the internet.

Our first speaker was Sharon D'Arcey with her speech called "Listowel is Leading the Way" and it was very informative in persuading us to shop locally. Our second speaker was Audrey Orth and gave a very informative and interesting speech called "Cellulitis" which was about her battle with it. Next, Jane Stoltz did an HPL Report about how she went about setting up the Area's International Speech and Evaluation contest.

Diane Bender took on the role of Table Topic Master and had us all pick a proverb or myth out of the envelope. Then we had to determine if it was fact or fiction and defend our decision. The winner was a 3 way tie between Keith Stoltz, Keith McCluskie and Rich Boertien. Lucy D'Arcey took on the role of general evaluator, where she introduced our evaluators and went over what we did well and some grow points during the meeting. I evaluated Sharon's speech, Leo Brisebois evaluated Audrey's speech and George Stevers evaluated Jane's speech.

Hope to see everyone at our next regular meeting on Thursday which is our "Election" night for our next year's executive, so have all your campaign speeches ready.

Brent