Word

The word on my mind right now is >>weekend<<. It's only a few hours away!

I can't wait to get away from this office!!

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

A word has the power to define, to bind, to create, to destroy. Truely, a poet has power undreamt of by kings.

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?

“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.

The web of words wraps round the whole wide world, concealing the secret numbers underneath.

1001 1001 0110 1001 1010 1001

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

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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

--The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
(trans. Edward Fitzgerald, 1st ed.)

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

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

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.

The word is powerless yet powerful. The word can be a mere 8 bits, or the flame that burns a city to the ground. Words sting, caress, re-assure, and destruct.

We become wordsmiths innately, learning language before we learn to walk or talk. And still, we continue our development, our love affair with words, until the day we die.

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.