Word

Words derive their meaning from the surrounding words, just as human beings derive their meaning from interacting with other humans around them.

Have you ever noticed that the only difference between »word« and »weird« are the vowels?

The best way to discover new words is by reading a book.

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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

--The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
(trans. Edward Fitzgerald, 1st ed.)

'Right again, quite right,' said Mr Swiveller, 'caution is the word, and caution is the act.'

What I feel for you,
I can't put in words,
language won't hold
my desire.

I think that Word is one of these strange softwares that can do anything except what you think it can do. It's not possible to write with this thing, but you can spend your day goofing with toolbars or including all types of spreadsheets or multimedia or even use it as the worst HTML-Editor ever.

I prefer ASCII, really.

Which is more useful to you: a dictionary that tells you how to use a word or a dictionary that tells you how a word is used?

Rotor is a fine palindrome, thought Frank Leigh Dearie as he ambled down the Lost Highway.

A man of words and not of deeds
Is like a garden full of weeds.

on Mar 22nd 2001, 02:07:31, Natasha Jordan wrote the following about

word

Think how much acceptance Mary showed when she said:

»Let it be done to me according to thy word.«

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And how much courage.

The word is powerless yet powerful. The word can be a mere 8 bits, or the flame that burns a city to the ground. Words sting, caress, re-assure, and destruct.

We become wordsmiths innately, learning language before we learn to walk or talk. And still, we continue our development, our love affair with words, until the day we die.

Words are the best toys you can give your brain.

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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

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 – Horace (65-8 B.C.)
 – Epistles, bk. I, epistle xviii, l. 71