|
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295 |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210 |
formerly known as etaoin...
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295 |
wordude?
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210 |
yup. just with the hip spelling. ;¬ )
formerly known as etaoin...
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 631
addict
|
addict
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 631 |
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?
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295 |
;-,) I like your graphic improvement.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 631
addict
|
addict
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 631 |
In the academy of Lagado, words are objects, and collected as such. So perhaps you could coin your own word from Swift: Quote:
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.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295 |
Wasn't the deaf mute language invented yet in Swifts time? Or would that corrode the hands too much?
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 3,290
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 3,290 |
Verbalegist or logologist.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 293
enthusiast
|
enthusiast
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 293 |
Words are not intended to be collected. They must be shared; spread about as seeds.
What do you call one who hordes words?
"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world" -Michael Crichton
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,913
Posts229,397
Members9,182
|
Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011
|
|
0 members (),
579
guests, and
1
robot. |
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|