Saturday, 8 January 2011
Language Timothy!
Lovely Man and I were just sitting watching a film this evening, well he was watching I was half watching. I'm not good a TV, I'm easily distracted - by the laptop, my own thoughts, half finished paintings in the studio, an idea for a purse design, or some other whimsy that pops into my head. Suddenly at end of one of the short clips, before the adverts, he announced "Well that is a dichotomy isn't it?" I thought for a moment. I liked the feel of the word, on my tongue, in my head, I repeated it several times to myself and then declared "I like that word"! I do. I love words, the English language. I love the feel of them, the sound of them and the pictures that they conjure up in our mind. I love how, with the right word, or a different word to the norm, you can make a sentence, even a whole story sound so much more interesting. Would you believe I have a huge dictionary at the side of the bed, and sometimes when I have a mind to, I like to pick it up and wander through it to see what I can find before I go to sleep? My good friend, Lorrie, loves words. My favorite word from Lorrie was 'propensity'. So now I have two. Propensity and Dichotomy. I think I will start another challenge for myself, to find a new word that I like the feel of and use it in a blog post each week! Ha ha! Is there anyone else out there that loves words?
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I love words but have trouble using them in my writing, or speaking for that matter. It will be fun to see what words you choose to use.
ReplyDeleteYep me too! My favourites are serendipity and synchronicity. I'm sure there are others that don't start with S ...!
ReplyDeleteI like serendipity too but I have trouble pronouncing synchronicity, I do think tho that if I practice saying it I would come to like the feel of it!
ReplyDeleteHaahahaaha. Just saw this, brilliant.
ReplyDeleteFave word of the moment is...verisimilitude. Which means, 'having the appearance of truthfulness'.