potayto, potahto

This is one of those posts that you'll have had to have read my previous posts to understand.

I had one of those experiences in Sunday School today where I started to talk about something then realized that I would have to explain a lot of foundational information for most anyone to understand what I was saying. I ignored that because I didn't want to hog much class time, said what I wanted to say anyway, and let everyone think I was a confusing person.

This afternoon, after discussing this with Mrs Dust, I concluded that I am often a literalist (not the same as a realist), but moreso I am unwilling to stay on the surface level of a topic if I am truly involved in a discussion about it. I will often regale Mrs Dust with detailed (and typically irrelevant) information about a topic that we are discussing because I view conversation as a time to solve issues or learn rather than relay feelings. I'm working on that.

Anyway, I have a short song that I think illustrates this quite well. I hope Louis Armstrong won't mind the edits.

You say either and I say either
You say neither and I say neither
Either, either
Neither, neither
Let's call the whole thing off

You like potato and I like an edible tuber native to South America
You like tomato and I like a widely cultivated South American plant having edible, fleshy, usually red fruit
Potato, an edible tuber native to South America
Tomato, a widely cultivated South American plant having edible, fleshy, usually red fruit
Let's call the whole thing off

But oh, if we call the whole thing off
Then we must part
And oh, if we ever part
Then that might break my chambered muscular organ that pumps blood received from the veins into the arteries