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RE: Steemit Basic Income Giveaway (Words)
You: "What took you so long?"
Me: "Kept you waiting, huh?"
Anyways, shits and giggles aside, I'm back and with a passion after the HF20-pocalypse. Time to get back to commenting and posting, surely didn't took me nine years to get back to the groove here.
Those magic words you've been waiting for
- Compound, or the combination of words. This quite literally is a God send to work around word-limits in contests. More-so, compounding words can create accidental or purposefully new meanings that cuts the time and word amount to get at what you want to say. Even so, slippery figurative language benefits with it and we honestly need to bring back kenning for the modern day.
- Labour, or labor, is a word that is highly interesting for the function it takes on within both the philosophical and economic worlds. Philosophically, it has a long history to describe mere actions with dignity to even important subjects worth discussing. Economically, it's truly a thing we cannot ignore - else entire economies fall when labour is ignored. Labour also is delicate in such quiet topics as in the birthing of individuals, effort to achieve a task and, overall, our biggest unifying signifier that should take precedence but hasn't been able to yet.
- Words, why else than not bringing this up!?! I mean, this is evident with the post in-itself. We have many words to describe one thing and words to describe many a things. Language truly ensnares us as we ensnare it, that is to say that we are no bigger than language itself. Also the fact that we can even symbolize things to an utterance is quite beautiful to be quite honest.
Those words I rather die
- RC, also known as "Resource Credits" and not RC cola, is probably two letters I like to never see touch each other for quite a while. RC had really screwed over the Steemit site for quite a few days, disrupting many a schedules and the fact that even whales got impacted heavily by it. Truly, if they had really cared about steemit, they could've made the bandwidth system actually work and not adopt a whole new system. But what do I know!
- Smart is a word that often gets thrown in as a mere synonym of intelligent when it shouldn't be. Smart is a description of pain and how much one is willing to smart oneself to get a task done, essentially who's willing to struggle to get a job done. And in this case, I hate the connotation with only Academia or the "Intelligentsia" in this case and not the word - yet a signified nonetheless that shouldn't be limited to them. For smart is a beautiful word to discuss the efforts of labouring, yet condescendingly only applied to the intelligent and such - when wise and less intelligent people have made smart moves without having to labour as much on the mental faculties. Coincidentally I rather want to demean the part of the Intelligentsia when they haven't a clue of what smart means in other areas and never really intelligent but factoid heavy.
- Harmony, much in the same vein as smart, I hate a certain application of this word and how 'twas and continues to be abused to-day. Whenever someone slaps "Harmony" or "Harmonious" to anything, they either are implying a inherently pacifist or an order that you can't criticize since everything is orderly and not chaotic at all. I'm sorry, but a harmonious order can definitely be a structure chaos that goes about completing its vicious cycles and the fact that where its slapped is to cover up crucial details. Nature is said to be harmonious, but any sincere ecologist would tell you right away that Nature, on the contrary, is a series of disasters after disasters that can recuperates and benefits from such. Take the case of a wildfire disaster, Nature doesn't morn the dead but slowly regrows there and continues to develop the area yet again. Am I saying that what humanity is doing, pollution and climate change, is right? NO! I'm merely stating to not be surprised of any victories we have against Nature, for she shall exact her revenge in equal or more devastating parcels!
Heh, nice one! All of us got a bit battered around by HF20, but I think things seem to be coming back on track again....
Compounding words are great, you must love German then! The ability to just chain words together until you have an incredible monster of a word with a pretty specific meaning! It's like having a while sentence in a single word!
The word word is also interesting! I hadn't really thought about that. The words we know and use really do capture (imperfectly) our character and our past shared experiences and culture. That's a great thought!
Ha ha, rc... I am pretty sure that they needed to fix the bandwidth problems, and it wasn't possible to jury rig a method of different costs for different types txn on the chain. At least I suspect so....
Lol, smart and pain! That is a secondary meaning that really has gone out of favour! And I agree with your thoughts on harmony, it does ask the question... Who's harmony..
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