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We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.
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Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
Sand and Foam [1926]
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We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.
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Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
Sand and Foam [1926]
The >>Word of the Day<< today over at dictionary.com is >>oblation<<.
>>Oblation<< comes from the past participle form of the Latin verb* >>offerre<< meaning >>to bring<<.
So, an oblation is an offering or a gift.
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* A Latin verb is traditionally cited by giving four forms, in this case: offero, offerre, obtuli, oblatum.
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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
--The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
(trans. Edward Fitzgerald, 1st ed.)
Words derive their meaning from the surrounding words, just as human beings derive their meaning from interacting with other humans around them.
We had words. Each and every evening.
Sometimes, when he stopped for beer after work, we had dishes and pots and food, too.
on Mar 22nd 2001, 02:07:31, Natasha Jordan wrote the following about
word
Think how much acceptance Mary showed when she said:
»Let it be done to me according to thy word.«
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And how much courage.
Words are like prodigies. They may want to stay inside where it is safe and warm but they'll never live if they never play outside...and find themselves lost in the cold.
Which is more useful to you: a dictionary that tells you how to use a word or a dictionary that tells you how a word is used?
Isn't it weird that words work as well as they do? Think about it.
I bought one of those Word-A-Day calendars to improve my vocabulary for college.
reify to regard or treat (an abstraction) as if it had concrete or material existence.
Have you ever noticed that the only difference between »word« and »weird« are the vowels?
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
(Mark Twain)
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Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
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Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt. II, l. 109
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