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| First text | on Apr 12th 2000, 06:47:58 wrote julianne about word |
| Latest text | on Dec 2nd 2014, 10:43:04 wrote Salman about word |
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My favourite word in the English language is »language«. However, if you gave me a slightly larger set of words to choose from I might have more difficulty expressing a preference.
Words are like prodigies. They may want to stay inside where it is safe and warm but they'll never live if they never play outside...and find themselves lost in the cold.
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?
Have you ever noticed that the only difference between »word« and »weird« are the vowels?
The >>Word of the Day<< today over at dictionary.com is >>oblation<<.
>>Oblation<< comes from the past participle form of the Latin verb* >>offerre<< meaning >>to bring<<.
So, an oblation is an offering or a gift.
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* A Latin verb is traditionally cited by giving four forms, in this case: offero, offerre, obtuli, oblatum.
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Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
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Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt. II, l. 109
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Words like winter snowflakes.
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Homer (c. 700 B.C.)
The Iliad, bk. III, l. 222
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.
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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.)
The web of words wraps round the whole wide world, concealing the secret numbers underneath.
1001 1001 0110 1001 1010 1001
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.
What I feel for you,
I can't put in words,
language won't hold
my desire.
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