Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Words

Devolution, Revolution, Absolution, Resolution, Institution, Dissolution, and last but not least, Evolution.

Sometimes I will be doing mindless things and suddenly a word will pop into my cranium. Uh, Maybe it is more that a word is trying pop out and escape. Understandable, knowing that it is jungle in there.

The first word will be uttered creating a waterfall effect of words that sound similar or rhyme. With each word, my mind scrambles to connect them by other means than phonetics, roots, prefixes or suffixes. I try to find a mutual theme or direction that will tie them together to form some kind of point or clever arrangement of ideas and thought.

Once I have played this word game long enough to find the boredom behind it, I move on to the next piece of glitter that catches my eye. I very seldom take the time to write them down. But for some reason, the words at the top have popped up more than once in recent days. Hmm.

Since I only paid the slightest bit of attention I could muster back in the days of chalk boards and tight lipped teachers wearing winged glasses, I have never been much of a scholar of words. I like them immensely. But I have never gone gaga over them to the point of becoming lost in them for longer than most anything else I find interesting.

No, that is a lie. I am a closet Dictionary addict. There. I said it. I actually pick up the dictionary from time to time, not to find a word, but to find a new one or just bask in the glow of all those words we use to describe our condition, our lusts, our peeves, our reason for carrying on. Words are so cool. Without them, I am sure we would have killed each other off long before this.

Words can seduce. Words can produce. Words are the juice that keeps humans moving from where they were to what they will become. Without a written language, we would still be masturbating in trees. Uh, well maybe some still do. But that is more in spite of words, not because of them.

So what conclusion or connection have I managed to button up regarding the words, Devolution, Revolution, Absolution, Resolution, Institution, Dissolution, and last but not least, Evolution? They all seem to be ideas or concepts we humans cannot avoid. We either desire them or wish to tear them down. Regardless, they are all important in the matrix of exchanges we Homo sapiens have with each other.

As ever, now moving onto the next bright light...................

(428 / 2364)

10 comments:

Gary ("Old Dude") said...

oh my, a self confessed word addict----aw hell-----we still loves ya!!

Utah Savage said...

Oh crap, I wrote a long comment and it vanished. We are having the fist windy thundery bit of rain all summer and my big dog is about to come unglued. I'll be back.

Utah Savage said...

There was a game/dictionary that came word by each word, lamenated on a magnatized strip. They came all in a box and it was so fun to rearrange them day by day into poems. The set was sent to me by a man who was wooing me and knew I loved words.

You are an extraordinary editor. I have been doing another edit of the novel and as I went through the later chapters I thought 'what would MrMACrum think of this?' I was in a hurry and wished you'd really been there saying yea or nay.

Demeur said...

Tis sad that we find ourselves dumbing down our posts for fear that readers may think we're some kind of word brains. Eek he's a word geek run!

What surprises me is all the words I know but never use. Many forgotten for lack of use.

If you'd like to test your metal I found a great word game site and the beauty of it is that when you answer correctly each correct answer gets one poor soul a free grain of rice.
http://www.freerice.com/index.php

Randal Graves said...

Me like words.

The worst is the OED, a word geek can get lost in that thing for hours. Good thing the library has one, sucker costs around a grand, methinks.

BBC said...

Words and wordsmiths that keep making up new complicated words for simple words that have been around for ages is really stupid.

I guess it gives them the delusion of higher intelligence, I just tell them to fuck off.

I keep my words as simple as possible because others in other country's often read them and it's stupid to assume that they have English mastered.

Let alone assume that they have an English dictionary or thesaurus. When these high smug wordsmiths talk to others they tone it down. Every notice that?

Meaning, we don't need those fancy words to communicate well with each other.

Utah Savage, always copy your text before sending a comment, then if it gets lost in the fray you just have to paste it into the comment box again.

BBC said...

Words and wordsmiths that keep making up new complicated words for simple words that have been around for ages is really stupid.

I guess it gives them the delusion of higher intelligence, I just tell them to fuck off.

I keep my words as simple as possible because others in other country's often read them and it's stupid to assume that they have English mastered.

Let alone assume that they have an English dictionary or thesaurus. When these high smug wordsmiths talk to others they tone it down. Every notice that?

Meaning, we don't need those fancy words to communicate well with each other.

Utah Savage, always copy your text before sending a comment, then if it gets lost in the fray you just have to paste it into the comment box again.

BBC said...

Words and wordsmiths that keep making up new complicated words for simple words that have been around for ages is really stupid.

I guess it gives them the delusion of higher intelligence, I just tell them to fuck off.

I keep my words as simple as possible because others in other country's often read them and it's stupid to assume that they have English mastered.

Let alone assume that they have an English dictionary or thesaurus. When these high smug wordsmiths talk to others they tone it down. Every notice that?

Meaning, we don't need those fancy words to communicate well with each other.

Utah Savage, always copy your text before sending a comment, then if it gets lost in the fray you just have to paste it into the comment box again.

BBC said...

Words and wordsmiths that keep making up new complicated words for simple words that have been around for ages is really stupid.

I guess it gives them the delusion of higher intelligence, I just tell them to fuck off.

I keep my words as simple as possible because others in other country's often read them and it's stupid to assume that they have English mastered.

Let alone assume that they have an English dictionary or thesaurus. When these high smug wordsmiths talk to others they tone it down. Every notice that?

Meaning, we don't need those fancy words to communicate well with each other.

Utah Savage, always copy your text before sending a comment, then if it gets lost in the fray you just have to paste it into the comment box again.

BBC said...

Have I made my point? :-)