word!

Over the last few days, I’ve been flexing my ‘writing chops’ so to speak, creating a whole whopping three neatly arranged original content. It got me thinking of something though, which is more sinister on the whole.

I noticed that my writing and as well as those I showed it to, that my writing was sprinkled with many ‘big’ and ‘colorful’ words. Why should that matter? I suppose it shouldn’t matter in the least bit, but it’s very debatable. At what point do you cross the line from being bold and powerful and just appear as a smart ass or know it all?

I have always liked big and unique words. It’s almost as fun to look up a new word you’ve never heard used before than to ignore it or just assume it means a certain something based upon context it was used in. After investing so much into learning about such words, they often become engrained in the brain and occasionally spill forth into unexpected oral and written communications. Also it seems that people often use big words to impress/intimidate colleagues and friends. Heck, try reading legalese, you wonder sometimes what planet they’re describing when in fact they might just be describing you neighbor in unflattering terms, even he wouldn’t he was being insulted with.

Why say

‘I hate you’,

when you can say

‘Your actions have deeply troubled me to no end’?

As they say, hate is such a strong word. Isn’t that neat?

Of course, others whose vocabulary would consist of more swear words than words of actual meaning often take offense. I think they’re missing out on expressing themselves fully. But they’d tell you to just shut your big ugly face up! 🙂

I’m sure by now you’ve heard of the latest buzz on the supposed hacking of Paris Hilton’s Sidekick. And after viewing a few of these websites and the purported information offered from this tech gadget, I was utterly suprised that this information actually appers to legit.

It’s a very scary premise for all those contacts on the device, as well as users of such gadgetry as well. It’s amazing how quickly such information can and was spread to all corners of the connected world. Sadly, I think we’ve only begun as can also be attested to in the Choicepoint data leakage as well.

You’d think the idiots that hold all this sensitive data would place a little higher value on such data, but I highly doubt that they care when someone gets their identity stolen, it’s not their fault!

It’s too bad that all those contacts on Ms. Hilton’s Sidekick have probably already changed their numbers and/or disassociated themselves from her, as I wouldn’t mind asking , oh say, Lindsay Lohan how’s things are going in her career. 🙂

I’m really fed up with the teasers that are becoming downright pathetic on the various TV news shows. They constantly are hyping their stories, which is always good to ‘grab’ you with, but they’re getting to the point of insanity. Like ‘unless watch our top story on your local news leader you won’t learn what hidden feature in your car may cause it to blow up suddenly if set on fire killing you instantaneously’. If you didn’t know it was the gasoline in the tank, I suppose you would be hooked in and ‘just have to see what it really was.

But give me a break. Does every little tidbit of information they might present physically affect you and if you happen to miss their newscast your life or the life of people you know dramtically change without this knowledge? I don’t think so.

But I am really repulsed by the weathercaster on Number 9: Fox. It’s as if every day there’s gonna be a blizzard coming with days and/or hours of the newcast. Imagine that! Snow. In winter. In Minnesota. Get outta here, is this for real? Sure it will probably happen, even given the wacky weather as of late, but c’mon it’s getting ridiculous. Crying wolf for so long eventually numbs the nerves and eventually gets lost in the confusion, when the alert may be most needed.

The constant bombardment of all this senstional journalism that always in your face and always begs for your urgency is getting too much to handle. Maybe it’s something to be said of our culture, but it’d be a lot easier to rip the cord outta the wall.

These few words infuriate me to no end. I’m sure I use them alot in everyday talk, but when I stare at them in a IM or on the page, they just irk me something fierce.

Yea – means yes or when you affirm a vote you say Yea.
Ya – on the other hand refers to the word you ~ like where ya going? I also believe it’s an affirmative as well, like the german word for yes (ja) which comes off as ‘ya’
Yay – refers almost specificly to celebration ~ Yay, it’s my birthday!
Yeah – also equals yes and is a variant of yea.

Good golly, how are you supposed to keep all these similiar yet different words straight? It’s almost impossible because they just about all mean the same thing too! Maybe I’ll just use the word yes and forget the rest. Yeah, that’s it… D’oh I mean YES that’s it!!!!

Odd you may say, but I don’t think so. I’ve been trying to track down something like this for a while now. So when/if I change archives links to particular posts will be flexible and change as well. Used following sites for guidance:

Rayners.org

and following from Diveintomark.org:

Not remarkable stuff but every little bit helps make things workout better. This Macros thing is interesting, seems most people use it to convert 🙂 into a real smiley or such, but a few are pushing it a tad more hardcore. I might revisted this again if something more seems interesting.