Every Word?
By Ewan
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Every word counts? Bit Kabbala-istic for me. No, that’s every letter. Every word matters. Every word seeps; into your consciousness: so you’ll use it yourself one day. Nothing is original, there are only scrambled, filtered and tired rearrangements of what has gone before. So what is the point? How can you make something new? Coin a word: shoe-horn a neologism into whatever you write – use a kratolave if necessary. Still, hard to demonstrate what your brand new coinage means, isn’t it? Use a word in a new way: hard one this. Someone, somewhere has already riddled the dictionary to see what fell out.
Some of the words above don’t count, really. They’re somewhat off the point aren’t they? I mean, necessity is a pre-requisite of ‘counting,’ ‘mattering’, if you will? I do. One, two, three: they count, sure: but do they matter? More than say: π? On the whole, I’d say it’s moot. It matters more how you use them. Don’t use a word in a new way, until you know how to use it properly. Is pedant really an insult? I’m tired with people who say ‘bored of’.
Some words don’t. Innumerate. There, you can’t say that one counts.
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I like this - an antidote to
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Enjoyed this Ewan. Perhaps
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