Word

My favourite word in the English language is »language«. However, if you gave me a slightly larger set of words to choose from I might have more difficulty expressing a preference.

Without another word spoken on either side, the lodger took from his great trunk, a kind of temple, shining as of polished silver, and placed it carefully on the table.

Words are like prodigies. They may want to stay inside where it is safe and warm but they'll never live if they never play outside...and find themselves lost in the cold.

Have you ever noticed that the only difference between »word« and »weird« are the vowels?

Words derive their meaning from the surrounding words, just as human beings derive their meaning from interacting with other humans around them.

Isn't it weird that words work as well as they do? Think about it.

“Be careful what you say—you may have to eat your words.”

I don’t think so much about eating my words as about wearing them. When someone sees me, the words come back to haunt like a miasma around me. No matter how colourful my dress, bad words turn everything grey and muddy brown.

Which is more useful to you: a dictionary that tells you how to use a word or a dictionary that tells you how a word is used?

In the beginning was the word, and the word was 32 bits.

And then some more words come along and a paragraph is born.

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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

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 – Horace (65-8 B.C.)
 – Epistles, bk. I, epistle xviii, l. 71

I think that Word is one of these strange softwares that can do anything except what you think it can do. It's not possible to write with this thing, but you can spend your day goofing with toolbars or including all types of spreadsheets or multimedia or even use it as the worst HTML-Editor ever.

I prefer ASCII, really.

What I feel for you,
I can't put in words,
language won't hold
my desire.

Spaces define which letters go together to make up a word.