Whats In A Word? More Than You Realize
What’s in a word evidently more than we might want.
For others, the adeptness to express yourself in the most meaningful way.
I have written articles before on how bizarre the english language can be and representing that matter; many languages have special challenges with interpreting meanings.
There is solitary word in china that i heard has about 40 different meanings, (only source said the two words have over 80 meanings) depending on form and emphasis. That confab is wu li. gary zukav (author of “the seat of the self”) talks about it in his tome “the dancing wu li masters.
For the book “the dancing wu li masters”, it means patterns of organic energy or physics. Other more popular meanings are:.
My way.
Nonsense.
I clutch my ideas.
Enlightened.
Representing those who memorize both metaphysics and quantum physics, like myself, i happen it exciting that it carries physics and commonsensical as meanings.
In english, we have myriad words that people will interchange yet keep different meanings, which can further bemuse the receiver of your message.
Two such words are, effective and efficient. Effective is doing the right thing, that which you set out to do. Efficiency is doing whatever you set out to do well.
You can have one without ineluctably having the other. Most people understand doing the right possession but not well, yet they procure caught up on alliance how you can do the wrong thing well, efficiency without effectiveness.
Concoct you are on a sailboat traveling across the pacific when you are informed:.
We have some good news and bad news. First, we have picked up a great wind and can get back on our time schedule; notwithstanding, our compass broke and we haven’t the slightest idea where we are.
So, they are traveling very efficiently, but not very effectively.
Even the spelling of words can cause grief and misunderstandings. I remember when i was in elementary school and the teacher would just say, sound it out. However, that doesn’t unexceptionally work. There is the whole issue of synonyms and homonyms, as well as the issue that we have this habit if breaking the rules in order to have more expression and growth in our parlance. (Growth(growth near the means is important).
Yet, one of the most enforced rules that i had to remember in schools was:.
operation i before e (from here on it gets complicated).
except after c .
or when sounded as ‘a’ as in neighbour and weigh. .
But does it cease there, noooo.
Some more exceptions that don’t look to follow any of the aloft are:.
Colloq phoney.
Either.
Foreign.
Forfeit.
Level.
Seize.
Freedom.
Efficient.
(And(and ironically or suitably) uncanny.
Many more words can be spelling traps for people. They sound similar and many people are not sure where to settle them.
Some common ones are:.
Affect -a verb -to influence.
Effect- a noun a result, a verb- carry to Often.
Allude refer indirectly to.
Elude slip away.
Can ability.
May- permission.
Farther fleshly distance.
Further abstract relationships of degree.
Suggest a speaker implies.
Infer a hearer infers.
Such as- examples.
Like resemblances.
You can see why passable communicators are in a towering call representing many corporations and businesses. It is condition too overdue to invest the time and effort into your self and master your ability to communicate on a higher level.
All the best!
Maria boomhower.
The slave-driver communicator.
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