ghost words, lost words
struck me when writing to a word-endowed friend -
there should be a word for all those words you come across in books just once, barely find the meaning of and never find again
what could you call them
nomad words - nowords u think? or ghost words - ghords?
You can look them up in dictionaries, shly question your local literary authorities, do blind searches in google and turn up nothing useful
yes it would be a lot easier if you could recognise a ghord the moment you read one, but you're too caught up in the book, story or article at that point - the word is half glimpsed like a girl's momentary dropped veil in a bazaar - its gone before its charm registers on you
later on you've lost track of the book, but the ghord comes back to you again and again tormenting you
some ghords you'll never find again
some you'll come across again - and they'll be plain and ordinary at second look - the bazaar girl is back - plump, well wedded and unveiled and wondering why you look at her so quizzically
somewhere out there ..... maybe there is a collector of lost ghords......
there should be a word for all those words you come across in books just once, barely find the meaning of and never find again
what could you call them
nomad words - nowords u think? or ghost words - ghords?
You can look them up in dictionaries, shly question your local literary authorities, do blind searches in google and turn up nothing useful
yes it would be a lot easier if you could recognise a ghord the moment you read one, but you're too caught up in the book, story or article at that point - the word is half glimpsed like a girl's momentary dropped veil in a bazaar - its gone before its charm registers on you
later on you've lost track of the book, but the ghord comes back to you again and again tormenting you
some ghords you'll never find again
some you'll come across again - and they'll be plain and ordinary at second look - the bazaar girl is back - plump, well wedded and unveiled and wondering why you look at her so quizzically
somewhere out there ..... maybe there is a collector of lost ghords......
posted by wordmonkey at 6:50 am
2 Comments:
Ghord for the day (as we have agreed to call it, "fine" i stated- u agreed!)
catatrash- hybrid variation of catatonic trash that passes for music these days.
Dear footsoldier, "I" the Word Endowed friend, am gracious enough to grant you your two pages. And in the interest of upholding my country's hoop-la (my-my the patriotism that is evoked in the face of would-be adversaries) i am also willing to consider "monkey & malang's" ghord treasury- an omnibus of the greatest nomad words "not" present in the english langauge. We can fight dibs on the title.
as for contracts, since we are both "highly qulaified marauders, as of now" i suggest we give the brits something to REALLY choke over and "trust" each other, pirates oath.
so you in? also...i refuse to believe you only whine twice a day, where is whine#3?
sigh... malang is gypsy, hippie, roadside bandit, people who dance dhamall at random mazaars, stret urchins. ur pick. so this is your ghord for the day. ive decided to allow my brain a day's lent.
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