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adoptedwriter) wrote2025-07-05 07:52 am
adoptedwriter) wrote2025-07-05 07:52 am
ECCO Home Game Week 3
I didn’t get enough votes in the last round of Idol. I barely got by with enough votes the 1st round. I don’t think I have ever gone down in round 2 in all the years I have played, so that feels weird. Oh well.
This week’s prompt is the word ‘ecco’. I’m sorta glad I don’t have to officially post for this one, but being the “Wordie” I am, I still wanted to discuss it. Plus I am off school for the summer and I actually have the down time.
I’m a Spanish major, (or was when I was in college.) In Spanish we have a similar word “hay”, pronounced like “eye”. It means there is or there are. Ecco and hay are cool and useful little words because they can be both singular and plural. You can’t mess up number and gender with this term. Ecco / Hay is also what I tell students is a “fake verb” in that every complete sentence has to have a verb, but this is one you never have to conjugate in order to make subjects and nouns agree. That’s another plus. So for once, learners have a nice, simple word that’s easy to use and also hard to mess up.
Ecco (tm) is also a Danish shoe and leather goods company. Their products are high quality, functional yet still attractive. Karl Toosbuy, the Danish man who created the company in the 1960s came up with the name by modifying a Latin phrase , “ex corde ad corde” meaning “from the heart.” He felt it went well with his company’s philosophy of manufacturing goods made of quality and integrity. Ecco footwear is also considered orthotic-friendly. Foot pain can be a real issue for many people, especially for those who work long hours on their feet. Ecco is not a cheap brand, but if it’s any consolation, the quality and effectiveness of the product hopefully makes up for the price.
Hmmm…Quality, week 1’s topic.
Consolation…Week 2’s topic.
Well, “there it is!”
This week’s prompt is the word ‘ecco’. I’m sorta glad I don’t have to officially post for this one, but being the “Wordie” I am, I still wanted to discuss it. Plus I am off school for the summer and I actually have the down time.
I’m a Spanish major, (or was when I was in college.) In Spanish we have a similar word “hay”, pronounced like “eye”. It means there is or there are. Ecco and hay are cool and useful little words because they can be both singular and plural. You can’t mess up number and gender with this term. Ecco / Hay is also what I tell students is a “fake verb” in that every complete sentence has to have a verb, but this is one you never have to conjugate in order to make subjects and nouns agree. That’s another plus. So for once, learners have a nice, simple word that’s easy to use and also hard to mess up.
Ecco (tm) is also a Danish shoe and leather goods company. Their products are high quality, functional yet still attractive. Karl Toosbuy, the Danish man who created the company in the 1960s came up with the name by modifying a Latin phrase , “ex corde ad corde” meaning “from the heart.” He felt it went well with his company’s philosophy of manufacturing goods made of quality and integrity. Ecco footwear is also considered orthotic-friendly. Foot pain can be a real issue for many people, especially for those who work long hours on their feet. Ecco is not a cheap brand, but if it’s any consolation, the quality and effectiveness of the product hopefully makes up for the price.
Hmmm…Quality, week 1’s topic.
Consolation…Week 2’s topic.
Well, “there it is!”
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