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yup. just with the hip spelling. ;¬ )


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Isn't the problem here that words are abstract and not concrete objects that can be collected like, say, postage stamps, postcards, and coins, and that therefore there are not likely to be any words for word collecting, but rather for a lover of words and, at the very most, a collector of dictionaries?

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;-,) I like your graphic improvement.

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In the academy of Lagado, words are objects, and collected as such. So perhaps you could coin your own word from Swift:

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The other project was, a scheme for entirely abolishing all words whatsoever; and this was urged as a great advantage in point of health, as well as brevity. For it is plain, that every word we speak is, in some degree, a diminution of our lunge by corrosion, and, consequently, contributes to the shortening of our lives. An expedient was therefore offered, “that since words are only names for things, it would be more convenient for all men to carry about them such things as were necessary to express a particular business they are to discourse on.” [...] Many of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things; which has only this inconvenience attending it, that if a man’s business be very great, and of various kinds, he must be obliged, in proportion, to carry a greater bundle of things upon his back, unless he can afford one or two strong servants to attend him. I have often beheld two of those sages almost sinking under the weight of their packs, like pedlars among us, who, when they met in the street, would lay down their loads, open their sacks, and hold conversation for an hour together; then put up their implements, help each other to resume their burdens, and take their leave.

But for short conversations, a man may carry implements in his pockets, and under his arms, enough to supply him; and in his house, he cannot be at a loss. Therefore the room where company meet who practise this art, is full of all things, ready at hand, requisite to furnish matter for this kind of artificial converse.

—Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Chapter V.



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Wasn't the deaf mute language invented yet in Swifts time? Or would that corrode the hands too much?

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Verbalegist or logologist.


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Words are not intended to be collected.
They must be shared; spread about as seeds.

What do you call one who hordes words?


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