A Word About the Word

My granny, Frances, loved connecting with other people the way most of us do: through good conversation and sharing a meal. She was a phenomenal listener and she loved decadent desserts. She also had a way with words.

“That was THE best pecan pie. It was absolutely larapin!”

Like many people of her generation in the South, she described delicious foods as being “larapin.” (Yes, it’s a real - ish word.) While our company focuses on connection through communication and not food—there is a correlation.

How we TALK about the way we communicate goes hand in hand with the relationship we have with food: how we prepare it and how we experience it.

Complex data gets broken down into “bite-sized pieces.” Why? So that people can “digest" the information better.

To push our agenda, sometimes we have to “butter people up.”

When we’re over-scheduled, we have “too much on our plates” so we “put things on the back burner” and then “sandwich” meetings in between other appointments.

To invite people to consider a new idea, we give them "something to chew on.”

We don’t remember every word said in an exchange with someone, but because memories are mostly emotion-based - we do remember their core essence, their true nature.

We recall a resentful person as being “bitter” and kind people are “sweet.” Disappointments make them “sour” and when people are coarse, we say they’re “salty.”

“In a nutshell,” the word larapin deserves a comeback. So much so, that we’re rebranding it. Spelling it with a “y” and expanding its definition to apply to all the ways we connect with purpose and passion.

At The Larapyn Group, we want everyone to consider the way they communicate with people. You don’t want their time with you to “leave a bad taste in their mouth.”