Today’s post has 3 parts.
1. Word addiction
Word-users are crazier for words than alcoholics for alcohol. The proof is in the pudding. When words were new, 550 generations ago, their total number was 1. Now in 2024, the number of words is between 1.2 million and 155 billion (say those who claim to have counted them all). Despite this, we claim that’s not enough. We want more of them. But if more is more, how do we keep score?
2. “Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
What did Rudyard Kipling know, 101 years ago, that we ignore today? Did he know that when a resource can be used more efficiently, we end up using more of it instead, not less?
Have we forgotten?
3. Words are a gift we’re meant to keep.
We didn’t keep words as a gift. We made them a prison instead. Lucky for us, even a prison is free when you have the key. I can show you how.
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I like very much to read poetry and sometimes I try to write myself. Then I’m glad to have a whole bunch of different words to pick up the ones that fit best in my text. Poetry is like music, it has to be harmonious, melodious. Yes, words are a gift we meant to use the best way
Having been a poet in his time Rudyard Kipling, I’m confident he’d have agreed with you 100%, but it’s too late to ask him now for he’s dead. That said, a lover of poetry myself, I agree with you 100% now.