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The step-by-step guide to stop mistaking words for language

The step-by-step guide to stop mistaking words for language

 

Mistaking words for language is a common mistake. From early childhood we’re trained to mistake the two, by parents, preachers & teachers, school, university, the internet, social media, and last but not least by your smartphone. Despite all this, that doesn’t make the mistake right.

Word is already taken by word, and language by language. Mistaking one for the other only prevents you from knowing the first thing about either. There is no advantage to be gained. You can’t win with a losing hand.

Word (4 letters) and language (8 letters) don’t even look the same.

Language is based on the French langue, meaning tongue. Therefore, had language been translated from the French, it would now be tonguage in English.

Tonguage, imagine that!

But those are facts, and facts have never changed anything, with the possible exception of minor murder cases. But for the worst murder cases the world has ever witnessed, all the facts add up to one big lie.

As it is, here’s what your parents, schools, universities, internet, social media, and smartphones say about word.

  • “Word: There still remains no consensus about the proper definition of word.” – Wikipedia, the world’s most-read reference work with 2.5 billion unique visitors a month
  • “Word: A speech sound or series of speech sounds that symbolizes and communicates a meaning usually without being divisible into smaller units capable of independent use.” – The Merriam-Webster Dictionary
  • “Word: A single unit of language that means something and can be spoken or written.” – The Oxford Learner’s Dictionary
  • “Word: Speech, talk, utterance, sentence, statement, news, report, word.” – Etymology Online
  • “Enter a sentence with the word word to see examples in context.” – thesaurus.com
  • “An addicting languages-supported anagram game.” – Wordmaster https://octokatherine.github.io/word-master/
  • “An upbeat and lively public radio show and podcast about language as well as new words, old sayings, slang, family expressions, word histories, etymology, linguistics, regional dialects, word games, grammar, books, literature, writing, and more.” – A Way with Words https://www.waywordradio.org/
  • “Each guess must be a valid 5 letter word.” – Wordle https://wordlewebsite.com/
  • “A modern dictionary for a modern world that represents language visually.” – VISUWORDS™ https://visuwords.com/

Makes you wonder if our schools, universities, and our internet are run by 6-year olds high on drugs.

Should you mistake your friends for your enemies, your friends would tell you. But unlike you and your friends, words don’t possess the organs required to tell you anything. When you mistake a word for another, you must tell yourself. There’s no other way. When it’s about words, it’s all up to you.

Words are NOT language!

There exist many wordless languages, also known as non-verbal languages, including body, hand, music, sound, color, smell, mime, and sign language, to name a few.

Wordless communication, for example by sound, is common not only among the plants and animals, but also among word-users in North Africa, Spain, and Turkey, and probably at other locations, too.

“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?” – Marcel Marceau

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11 examples you can apply immediately to know you

By In You

11 examples you can apply immediately to know you

I’ve been a word fan ever since I rediscovered, in 2016, that everything I know is a word.

Over the last couple of days, I looked for 12 examples you can immediately apply to know you, found 11, and learned a lot in the process. Not bad for a start, says I. So here, delighted to share, are your 11 examples you can apply immediately to know you, or to know you better, as the case may be.

Example 1: Many word-users resist accepting that you is a word (I wrote about this in this previous post). Of course, it’s not just about you. Everything in this post is a word. Put differently, there are no truths here to be found. What you make of my words is outside of my control. When it’s about words, it’s all up to you.

Example 2: When you realise that you describes…

…what you are, what you do, and what you have — 3 different stories entirely — you know more about you than 99% of your fellow word-users know about them.

Example 3: Regardless of how many blames and faults you find with your fellow word-users, or alternatively with the wordless, it will not change you. Only when you stop blaming and faulting others will you change before the day is over.

Example 4: Be happy like a child for no reason at all. If you’re happy like an adult, with reasons, you’re in trouble because those reasons can be taken away from you.

Example 5: Believe that there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest. Believe that life happens for you, not to you. Words attract that upon which they are directed. “There is genuine magic in believing.” – Claude Bristol

Example 6: Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your heart, the blueprint of what you’re here for. “Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?” – Shakespeare

Example 7: Do not do what you would undo if caught by yourself, your friends, or your enemies. Put differently, keep your word and you shall know yourself faster than by any other way I know of.

Example 8: Be curious. Not only because it is the source of intelligence, but also because behind every horizon is always another you to discover. Get out of your comfort zone. “Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Example 9: I learned this from Mark Twain: “Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.” Embrace delayed gratification, the key to achieve your long-term vision, for when your ambition is gone, you may still exist, but you may as well be dead.

Example 10: Everything is energy, and so are you. “Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be changed from one form to another” – Albert Einstein. That is all there is to everything. Match the frequency of your words to that of energy, and you cannot help but get that energy.

Example 11: Changing what you have comes from changing what you do and have, and when you change how you look at words, you change what you do and have.

The 11 examples in a nutshell:

  • If you follow even just some of the 11, you’ll know more of you than 99% of your fellow word-users know of them.
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  • To practice the examples, leave your comfort zone behind. Be ridiculous. How much fun can that be? Nothing is more fun than making the exfearience for yourself. Because you dare. Because you can. Not because you must. There is no must involved.
    .
  • Change how you look at words, and the change of you is certain. That is what I wish for all of you.

11 examples you can apply immediately to know you

11 examples you can apply immediately to know you

 

I’ve been a word fan ever since I rediscovered, in 2016, that everything I know is a word.

Over the last couple of days, I looked for 12 examples you can immediately apply to know you, found 11, and learned a lot in the process. Not bad for a start, says I. So here, delighted to share, are your 11 examples you can apply immediately to know you, or to know you better, as the case may be.

Example 1: Many word-users resist accepting that you is a word (I wrote about this in this previous post). Of course, it’s not just about you. Everything in this post is a word. Put differently, there are no truths here to be found. What you make of my words is outside of my control. When it’s about words, it’s all up to you.

Example 2: When you realise that you describes…

…what you are, what you do, and what you have — 3 different stories entirely — you know more about you than 99% of your fellow word-users know about them.

Example 3: Regardless of how many blames and faults you find with your fellow word-users, or alternatively with the wordless, it will not change you. Only when you stop blaming and faulting others will you change before the day is over.

Example 4: Be happy like a child for no reason at all. If you’re happy like an adult, with reasons, you’re in trouble because those reasons can be taken away from you.

Example 5: Believe that there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest. Believe that life happens for you, not to you. Words attract that upon which they are directed. “There is genuine magic in believing.” – Claude Bristol

Example 6: Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your heart, the blueprint of what you’re here for. “Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?” – Shakespeare

Example 7: Do not do what you would undo if caught by yourself, your friends, or your enemies. Put differently, keep your word and you shall know yourself faster than by any other way I know of.

Example 8: Be curious. Not only because it is the source of intelligence, but also because behind every horizon is always another you to discover. Get out of your comfort zone. “Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Example 9: I learned this from Mark Twain: “Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.” Embrace delayed gratification, the key to achieve your long-term vision, for when your ambition is gone, you may still exist, but you may as well be dead.

Example 10: Everything is energy, and so are you. “Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be changed from one form to another” – Albert Einstein. That is all there is to everything. Match the frequency of your words to that of energy, and you cannot help but get that energy.

Example 11: Changing what you have comes from changing what you do and have, and when you change how you look at words, you change what you do and have.

The 11 examples in a nutshell:

  • If you follow even just some of the 11, you’ll know more of you than 99% of your fellow word-users know of them.
    .
  • To practice the examples, leave your comfort zone behind. Be ridiculous. How much fun can that be? Nothing is more fun than making the exfearience for yourself. Because you dare. Because you can. Not because you must. There is no must involved.
    .
  • Change how you look at words, and the change of you is certain. That is what I wish for all of you.

Opposition I’ve heard to the story of words

By In Words

  • Why should I believe you?
  • You’re not even a doctor!
  • The story of words is difficult to believe.

Support:

  • It gives you control over words.
  • It’s work only if somebody else makes you do it.
  • You get to spend your energy and time with your family,
    partner, kids, and friends.
  • All from the comfort of wherever you are.

Decisions…

Decisions…

How to know what the story of words gives you?

By In Words

The story of words gives you ownership of words.

All it takes is for you to decide to give words a chance.

When you decide, blame and excuses will be a thing of the past.

And when things don’t go according to plan, you own every word, the ability to respond, too.

The power to change direction will be back to where it belongs.

You’re the captain of the ship.

Scary.

Yet liberating as heaven.

Side notes:

  • Decide you must for no other word can make the decision for you.
  • “Ships in harbor are safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – John Shedd

How to know what the story of words is about?

By In Words

The story of words hasn’t been told before which means:

  • It is new.
  • It is based on what can be denied only by confirming it.

Though the story of words is new and for the first time based on what can be denied only by confirming it, that doesn’t mean it is fighting the old.

Nothing good ever comes from fighting the old. Nothing ever could — unless you believe fighting is good.

No fighting going on.

The story of words simply makes the stories previously told obsolete.

Side note:
The story of words has revolutionized evolution once before. It did so when the age was stone, the Sahara green, Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice, and writing hadn’t been invented yet. And it can do so again — if we give words a chance.

This 13,750-year-old sales trick still works today

By In Words, You

A 13,750-year-old sales trick continues to work as we speak, so you might of course want to know what it is and what we’re talking about.

Well, first things first, a trick is intended to deceive.

As you’d expect from a trick that has deceived without fail for the past 13,750 years — which is when the words got invented — is that it must have deceived as many word-users back when the age was stone, the Sahara green, and Northern Europe was under 1-mile-thick ice, as it continues to deceive now, 13,750 years later.

If you think that’s the 13,750-year-old sales trick this post is about, you’re spot on.

It’s as if time has left no trace on the workings of this nearly 14,000-year-old sales trick.

Sales implies that the trick is based on words. Needless to say, but for the purpose of this post I say it anyway, sales is a word, and so is trick.

In the wordless world, sales and trick don’t exist for obvious reasons. But in the wordy world, everything is different.

In case you haven’t read all my articles published since July 10, 2023, let me remind you that there exist two types of citizens on planet Earth, the word-masters and the word-users.

The word-masters are word-users that have known in the beginning is the word since the beginning of words.

The word-users do as told by the word-masters.

There’s nothing new about the word-masters, the minority, and the word-users, the majority. On the contrary, the relationship between masters and users has remained unchanged for thousands of years, and now is no different.

All of us

The word-masters and the word-users alike, that is all of us, know from personal experience that we depend on context and contrast to stay alive.

Should we lose our ability to be in charge of our own context and contrast, that means we simply surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from it. When this happens, you’ll be in trouble in the blink of an eye or by the end of the day, whichever comes first.

This we’ve known long before Maslow wrote it down for everybody to see, because, let’s face it, we’re all animals with words — though we love to pretend otherwise — so we know what we know with or without words learned at school.

After all, the 100% cells that we’re made of are wordless, too, and each cell knows much more than we’ll ever know.

The setup can be rigged

If you’re not in charge of your own context and contrast, then somebody else will be more than happy to take charge for you.

That somebody will likely be evil word-masters bent on taking advantage of this natural survival skill by rigging the setup in their favor.

When you surrender your senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from it, you have no rights left, and you don’t compare as you had initially intended, apples to apples, but you now end up comparing apples to oranges, or you can even be manipulated to believe an apple is an orange.

There are many ways to do this.

Takeaway

The challenge is knowing who is in control of the context and the contrast.

Make sure it’s you.

You can’t win with a losing hand.