USE YOUR WORDS
Thursday, April 22, 2021
How many ways of combing words could you concoct with 170,000 + 9 variables? Reordering 26 letters and nine punctuation semiotics – how many variables could there be?
There are about a million words in the English language, of which 170,000 words are in current use, of which the average person uses 20-30,000.
I don’t have that math skill, and I doubt it is essential. My point is that we don’t work very hard at using what is available. Could we not communicate better and have more effective relations with our world if we knew and used more words?
Or, should we use fewer?
Would that be better?
What if we had only ten fingertips to touch ten fingertips, two eyes to look into two eyes – would we love more or fight more?
What matters?
I turned on the news, talk shows, read newspapers, watched TV, read up on op-eds – local, national, international – and it seems ubiquitous fear and greed are in ample supply.
Truth is obscured, always brutally challenging to find and pick out of the fly-excrement of media/political establishments as everything is spun, re-spun, and re-cycled to sound as if it was being said for the first time.
Skeptics among us know well that governments move slow and talk fast. They announce and re-announce every initiative every chance they get – and by the time it eventually happens, it’s often rubber of a different tire hitting the road.