For the longest time, my profile quip on Steemit has been "I like words."
On Twitter it is: "Creative. Bearded. Individual. Photographer. Digital Artist. Human Being. Believes firmly in the right to daydream and have provoking, philosophical discussions."
All of the things that you've just read are of course, words. When you string them together in a certain order, they can make you feel one way, in one moment, and completely different in another.
They need context, too.
She looked at him in contempt.
Who is she? Who is he? Are they in a relationship, or is she the survivor who witnessed, from the passenger seat, him drunkenly ramming his car through a red light and into her son? Is she the judge handing down a sentence?
There are certain words that sound like magic when spoken. Here's a short list:
Cathartic - you can't help but feel catharsis when you say it.
Vulnerable - It has a certain beauty as it rolls around your mouth.
Mayhap - Half way between maybe and happen - perhaps not a real word, but widely used.
Ephemeral - It doesn't stick around forever.
Fragile - It could break apart at any moment, or wouldn't take much to break.
Perhaps - I like this just as much as mayhap.
Why are these words magical when spoken? To me, it is because they provoke thought; and a sense of urgency. You can't possibly ever do everything you ever want to do, because you simply won't have enough time.
Some unambitious people may have a "bucket list", or as I prefer to call it - a list of menial tasks to do. or things they want to experience before inhaling their final breath.
Me? I'll take every chance to knock over the bucket and send its fluid contents spilling out onto the surface of the Earth. It's because words seem to be the most permanent and enduring things that we have. The language of the ancient Egyptians, Romans, and Greeks are still studied, and through those words, we can learn; we can story, and we can experience.
Words are, beyond genuine experience, the most vivid way to render an event or occurrence to another. It's a storybook with no end, and infinite possibility.
To me, it is different when I read the words in my head than reading them out loud. The feeling is different. You are right, words are infinite possibilities - because the way we put words together affects the reader and makes him/her feel a certain way when reading it. For example, most of the time I will notice bad grammar first haha, but even with the bad grammar, I will concentrate on the subject if I'm interested in it. This is the first long post I saw without pictures so it's a great experience for me! I enjoyed reading it.
There's a place for pictures to enhance words, as well; there's just a lot of content on this platform that relies on stock pictures for its "attention grabbing factor". The goal is that good writing shouldn't come second. :)
"To me, it is different when I read the words in my head than reading them out loud"
never thought about it... its so true to me too
I've never told anyone this; but every time I say, 'in the meantime'; in my head I think, 'in the twixtwhile'.
I realise Twixtwhile isn't a word, but it's heaps better than meantime.
I like to mix words, too.
Flustrated, Frustered, Specsational, Senstacular
In the twitwhile sounds like a great way to start a story about a car crashing going in slow motion. :)
Mimsy and I were taking the vorpal up to Tulgey Wood, when we burbled through a bandersnatch just past Twillig.
The momeraths outgrabe, and we gyred and gimbled right across the borogoves, coming to rest hard up against a tumtum tree.
Sounds very old English! Lol!
Words are so powerful aren’t they. I could not imagine getting around using a series of gestures and mono-tone grunts, and on that note I just did! When you read a written word do you say it in your mind or do you just see it and know it’s meaning
It's spoken in my mind. Seeing a word and knowing its meaning works on things like signs (or even shapes, ie a stop sign); the shapes of words are also a very interesting area of study - not only in how they work in your mouth, but how they look on a page, on a screen, in a notebook, etc.
Oh I see what you’re saying, literally :P
Is that why some people dislike certain words and like others do you think, like the way it sits in your mouth ie cake and luscious. Cake to me sounds dry and unappealing and no matter of tonal adjustments could make it sound appealing hahaa
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I love it when I come across another with a passion for words! I was having a conversation with someone, many years ago now, about how some words just dance around your head or how lovely some foreign words sound. "Zanahoria" (pronounced Thanahoria) was one of the few Spanish words that stuck with me because of how lovely it sounded to me. Its translation is "carrot!" Another is "pizarra" (pronounced pitharra).
I love the origins of words too. So many words in the English language are from other languages.
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