It continues to get worse - this obsession with expression. Words are tools. Words are weapons. Words, both spoken and heard, possess tremendous potential power. Ironically, because of the power inherent in words, unspoken words also possess tremendous potential power.
Words are the very essential building blocks of thought. Words are sensorial triggers. Word games are every bit as serious as war games -- words can start wars...and someday, perhaps detente and diplomacy, the most noble and compassionate use of words, may prevail to stop wars.
And now, back to the notion of LINGOVATIONS (my invented word for invented words):
It dawns on me that the terms thinklink, thinklinks, hyperlist and hyperlists are all very serious lingovations. With the birth of a word, a new thought, or a new approach to viewing an old subject is also created. It is appropriate for some new definitions to follow:
THINKLINK - A hyperlink to an internet destination which potentiates thought. (Plural = THINKLINKS)
HYPERLIST - A list of hyperlinks subsumed under a theme, idea or subject. (Plural = HYPERLISTS)
Looking upward at what we (the "Royal We") are doing here makes me a creator of expression as well as an expresser (or expressor) of creation. Douglas Castle (eponymous with the instant blog and audacious beyond all standard measure currently available) is a LINGOVATOR. I may be a LINGOVATIONIST, as well, but that latter term would seem to relate more directly to one who admires or studies lingovations and lingovators.
Thank you for your tolerance with me today.
This is going to be a long, rainy Saturday.
Faithfully,
Douglas Castle
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