Words..
I love them - small words, big words, short ones, long ones, complicated, simple, good, bad, rare, common..
However, my life took quite a different course than I'd thought when I was younger and I no longer have much use for extravagant language, rendering me less expressive than in my adolescence. With the lack of need, I've forgotten a lot of great words and phrases and seldom absorb the ones I encounter and may want to remember. Other than my interest, I'll therefore be posting little words I come across, and that are to my fancy, here on the blog.
The above written goes for both English, which is neither my mouther tongue nor my everyday language, and Swedish.
A word is the smallest free form (an item that may be uttered in isolation with semantic or pragmatic content) in a language, in contrast to a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of meaning. A word may consist of only one morpheme (e.g. wolf), but a single morpheme may not be able to exist as a free form (e.g. the English plural morpheme -s).
Typically, a word will consist of a root or stem, and zero or more affixes. Words can be combined to create other units of language, such as phrases, clauses, and/or sentences. A word consisting of two or more stems joined together form a compound. A word combined with an already existing word or part of a word form a portmanteau.
Word may refer to a spoken word or a written word, or sometimes, the abstract concept behind either. Spoken words are made up of phonemes, and written words of graphemes.
~ Wikipedia/Word
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