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Phrasing no comments
A little more thought on words having power.
I realized that after the age of 50, there seem to be a few American phrases that have dropped out of my everyday usage. Phrases like “Kill me now” when something so boringly unbearable happens. Or telling a friend that “When I start acting geriatric, just take me out in a field and shoot me.”
Nope, those are things I don’t say anymore.
I realized that no matter how long I live, how much time I have left, there isn’t enough life left to be saying such things, in my head, or in public.
Words Like Weird … 2 comments
As I surf around the net, I’ve been noticing how openly people have been using the word weird to describe something they are uncomfortable with. I did a little post on the PUMA on one of my other blogs yesterday and I read a bunch of posts by other bloggers about this new little electric getting around vehicle and the word weird popped up quite a bit.
I thought, how limited. If you label something as weird, it’s hard to think of it otherwise. If you label something weird, then it’s value is diminished. If you label something weird in a public forum you are putting peer pressure on your friends and colleagues to do the same. Labeling something weird means that you can’t see its potential.
So, I say, just stop using words like weird to describe things that could possibly develop into something cool – like do its part to save the planet.