14.10.08

W is for words.

They're cutting words from the dictionary, shrinking the store of already inadequate words so that each day it becomes more difficult to select the one that perfectly expresses exactly this thing that I feel. Love, honor, devotion, they fall flat and feel cliched. Hate, sorrow, contrition, they fall short and feel anemic. I've lost so much already I cannot bear to lose my words as well, and would that I had a neologist to name whatever this is I feel, whatever this is that I feel for you, I would finally know what to whisper in my sleep. You ruined me, and I swear I will never feel whatever this is that I feel for you ever, ever again.

8 comments:

  1. You and your words, always saying things and writing things. Words, words, words! Pah!

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  2. How can they cut words from the dictionary? That's so wrong.

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  3. network geek - words are overrated.

    jennie! - to be fair, they're cutting words to make room for new ones like w00t and zomg, which, yeah. no fair.

    h!a! - [thanks]

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  4. Ooooh, if you meet that neologist, would you let me know? He and I need to have words (so to speak)...

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  5. i'll send him to you as soon as i've finished pummeling him.

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  6. Wait, so who says they can't just add w00t without cutting something?! Who made the dictionary finite?? I'm becoming oppugnant at the very idea.

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