Showing posts with label Pandemic words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pandemic words. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

WORD PLAY!

Word Play or Play on Words.
Wordsmiths love words. That's a given. Many are also given to playing with words. 
Bananagrams. Boggle. Crosswords, Scrabble. Whirly Word. Words with Friends. (Alphabetized for your convenience)
And oh yea, these days...WORDLE.
Pandemic/ COVID words could qualify for their own dictionary---social-distancing, super spreader and mask-up stand out to me.
Words I saw or heard this past week---Blursday. Flightmare. Staycation.  Stagflation, a period of sluggish economic growth with high inflation....need I say more.
Words so new that auto correct puts a line of red dots under them.
What about the latest craze..........cultural creations. These words come and go based on the "Hot Mess" circumstances in the world.

Trending Now? Too many to recount and most misunderstood by me. Sentient, however is a word used by a google tech man that caused him to lose his job. AI, artificial intelligence, is able to feel, hear, see, smell or taste.

Only God's Word allows me to perceive (sentient) truth as I, by His Spirit, can "taste and see" that the Lord is good: blessed is the man  who trusts in Him. (Psalm 34:8) 
Allow God's Words to play in your mind by the guidance of the Holy Spirit---they will become the joy and delight of your heart. (Jeremiah 15:16)

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

WORDSMITH REFLECTIONS

It's that time again---the drawing close of one year opening up to the coming of 2021!
OED had so many words to choose from for "Word of the Year" they expanded and encompassed several as "Words of an Unprecedented Year." A restating of "unprecedented" seems all encompassing, albeit over-used to me. According to the article, the use of pandemic increased 57,000% in 2020.
WARNING--Don't multiply words without knowledge. (Job 35:16)

All of this intellectual repartee had me considering what few words (Ecclesiastes 6:11, Proverbs 10:19) defined my year with the underlying word of HOPE.......
JANUARY--Pause & Listen (before seeking)
FEBRUARY--Angst---it was a leap year and there was no February 29 in my devotional book
MARCH--New Normal (w/COVID-19)
APRIL--COVID testing--my first of 2, both negative
MAY--FOHOF (Fear Of Hurting Others Feelings--text talk hard for the aged)
JUNE--DRIVE-BY (Birthdays)
JULY--Social-distancing
AUGUST--STROKE
SEPTEMBER--Fishing
OCTOBER--Wearisome
NOVEMBER--Twosome
DECEMBER--BLURRS-DAY

Mask up, Memphis. I still want to be vigilant & hopeful in my word gathering in 2021.