What is Oral Hash?

First let's look at the definition of Oral as it pertains to this class:

o⋅ral

/ˈɔrəl, ˈoʊr-/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [awr-uhl, ohr-]
–adjective

1.	uttered by the mouth; spoken: oral testimony.

2.	of, using, or transmitted by speech: oral methods of language teaching; oral traditions.

3.	of, pertaining to, or involving the mouth: the oral cavity.

4.	done, taken, or administered through the mouth: an oral dose of medicine.

-from dictionary.com

Now let's look at the definition of hash as it pertains to our word oral:

hash

1 [hash]
–noun

1.	a dish of diced or chopped meat and often vegetables, as of leftover corned beef or veal and potatoes, sautéed in a frying pan or of meat, potatoes, and carrots cooked together in gravy.

2.	a mess, jumble, or muddle: a hash of unorganized facts and figures.

3.	a reworking of old and familiar material: This essay is a hash of several earlier and better works.

4.	Computers. garbage (def. 7).

5.	Radio and Television Slang. electrical noise on a radio or snow in a television picture caused by interfering outside sources that generate sparking.

–verb (used with object)

6.	to chop into small pieces; make into hash; mince.

7.	to muddle or mess up: We thought we knew our parts, but when the play began we hashed the whole thing.

8.	to discuss or review (something) thoroughly (often fol. by out): They hashed out every aspect of the issue.

-from dictionary.com




Now it should make a little sense what I'm trying to accomplish here with Oral Hash. (No, sorry... not really talking about the drug... but I have an inkling that drugs may be very influential to some of the Oral Traditions we may encounter....maybe I'll blog on that later.)

I'm going to try to bring together a little bit of everything (thoughts, ideas, tidbits, quotes, notes, etc.) on Oral Traditions into one big hash, and hopefully pop something out benefitial to the masses, something wonderful and yummy, good for the body, great for the brain, like a nice good morning Hash. I’ll be getting to it in no time at all. ;) Be back soon, C