Tape

Glyph of the word 'tape'.

tape

  • (n.) net, netting
  • (v.) to catch someone or something in a net, to net something
  • (adj.) caught in a net

Tape ti ivupu; itava’u ti inoto.
“Caught in a web; removed from the world.”

Notes: Everybody! “Hanging on by a thread; spinning the lies; devised in my head!”

That’s the ol’ Dream Theater song “Caught in a Web”. I actually didn’t like it all that much the first time I heard it, but it’s grown on me…

Anyway, what word is this? Oh, right: tape. Yeah, that’s a net all right. Where would we be without nets?

Hey, you know what I find incredibly unconvincing? Every movie or television show wherein someone has a net thrown on them and suddenly they can’t move. Know what I would do if someone threw a net on me? I’d take the net off and ask them why the heck they threw a net on me. I mean, honestly: It’s a net! What are we, fish?! Use your freaking arms! I tells ya’…

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