To get on par with religion, science, art, knitting, woodworking or any other topic taught at school, the word has a long way to go.
- Religion without stories
- Color without theory
- Dance without rules
- Art without schools
- Science without labs
- Archeology without arch
- Universe without university
- Knowledge without knowing
- Knitting without wool
- Woodworking without wood
- Stargazing without stars
- Traffic without signs
…wouldn’t work so well. But for words, having none of the above is considered alright.
If words were as clear as traffic signs, we would manage with fewer of them, wouldn’t we? Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against the alphabet, however, to organise words alphabetically was a good start, but surely, that cannot be all there is to it.
Well, that is all there has been to it for thousands of years, and many a word-user still hangs on to the belief something began 2021 years ago, as if in the beginning was a storyteller, despite the fact everybody knows (some) words began earlier than that.
For word-beginners in the future, I think in addition to the alphabetical ranking of words, the story of words will have to be told, and words will have to be recognized for what they are.
Untranslated words
Complicate
Dictionary
Library
Literature
Real
Vocabulary
Foreign words translated into another foreign word.
Storia (Latin) > Histoire (French) > History (English)
IQ-only / Didn’t happen / Designed to confuse
Active Listening
Artificial
Behavioural Economics
Believer
Dirt-road
Emirates
Fake news
God
Happy
Human
Impostor syndrome
Intelligence, IQ
Life
Love
Multidirectional memory
Nation of god
Natural history
Positive psychology
Pre-history
Proof-positive
Promised land
Social media
Success
Truth
Common sense / Happened
You
Word
Story
Crazy words
Commonwealth <> Commonpoor
Delve
Disambiguation
Enmity
History
Human Rights <> Human Wrongs
In order to
Inable
Infallibility
Inhuman
Labor
Liable
Linguistics
Meme
Non-human
Per-ish
Proper
Remarkable
Sponse (as in re-sponse)
Uncompelled
United Nations
Vaudevillian
Vernacular
Noun-Only Words
Vision
Word
Forbidden Words
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