Okay, confession time.
One thing that I was really excited about when I was preparing for college was the opportunity to take etymology classes. I love finding out definitions and origins of words. It's a sickness, I know. A rare one, even.
Writing is a release for me. I've been journaling since about 5th grade and free-writing since middle school. I embraced blogs as an opportunity to share my writing with others. I love the art of it, the look of words on a page with the different curves and lines, and even the very act of it.
It is a huge accomplishment to harness words to truly say what you mean. That, my friends, can't be done without a familiarity with words.
Words are powerful. I don't want them to merely be acquaintances I call on occasionally. No, I want words to be an ally.
Not everyone is ready for full-fledged etymology of words. That's okay. I leave you instead with the etymology of phrases in our language.
Idioms
More idioms
How's that for legendary?
One thing that I was really excited about when I was preparing for college was the opportunity to take etymology classes. I love finding out definitions and origins of words. It's a sickness, I know. A rare one, even.
Writing is a release for me. I've been journaling since about 5th grade and free-writing since middle school. I embraced blogs as an opportunity to share my writing with others. I love the art of it, the look of words on a page with the different curves and lines, and even the very act of it.
It is a huge accomplishment to harness words to truly say what you mean. That, my friends, can't be done without a familiarity with words.
Words are powerful. I don't want them to merely be acquaintances I call on occasionally. No, I want words to be an ally.
Not everyone is ready for full-fledged etymology of words. That's okay. I leave you instead with the etymology of phrases in our language.
Idioms
More idioms
How's that for legendary?
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