My Relationship with Language in a Nutshell

Wikipedia: In dentistry, the posselt diagram is a diagrammatic representation …

Me: *swoons at the very mention of a diagram*

Wikipedia: … of a sagittal view …

Me: *nearly faints because saggital is such a yummy word*

Wikipedia: … of maximum mandibular movement.

Me: *gets heart palpitations from maximum mandibular movement because it’s like a waltz turning into a march and uses consonance as a mechanism for smooth forward movement*

Wikipedia: But wait. There’s more.

Me: *wonders if she can handle any more*

Wikipedia: Posselt postulated that in the first 20 millimeters …

Me: *trills at the mention of a specific unit of measure*

Wikipedia: … of opening and closing …

Me: *tears up at the visual of opening and closing, an essential motion in nature that’s layered and evocative*

Wikipedia: … the mandible only rotates …

Me: *loves the constraint the mandible is showing here, which kind of makes it like a poem if a poem could be a horseshoe-shaped bone*

Wikipedia: … and does not simultaneously move downward and forward.

Me: *puts on nerdy reading glasses to impress Wikipedia* Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. How interesting. *touches own mandible gingerly*