I love words. . .
I kind of use them to make a living
If I’m not speaking them, I’m writing with them and always in search of using them better. . .
I was recently reading a LinkedIn post by a
National Speakers Association, colleague, Lou Heckler
who shared:
“I’ve been thinking about “the heat of the afternoon versus the cool of the evening.” It’s a phrase I first heard in a journalism class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The professor was talking about reporting on an event that had stirred up your emotions and had prompted you to want to act a little to quickly. (We had lots of subjects in that category at that time: the Vietnam War, race relations, political hanky-panky, to name a few). It was his version of “count to ten,” I guess. Step back, get your perspective, take a few extra breaths…and then place your hands on the keyboard. I have heard his advice in my head many times in my business and personal life. I’m not sure that’s a frequently practiced technique these days as I read all the invective in news coverage, in online posts, even in conversations. My hope for you this week is that you won’t react too soon as you face whatever your challenges are — in fact, see if you can “hold” for a few moments in the heat of the afternoon and then decide what to do in the cool of the evening.”
Which got me thinking
just because you know what you’ve said
doesn’t mean you have any idea what’s been heard. . .
H E N C E:
Feeling like the first day of Spring
has a whole other feeling than
Feeling like the last day of Winter
Semantics, huh?
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the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. There are a number of branches and subbranches of semantics, including formal semantics, which studies the logical aspects of meaning, such as sense, reference, implication, and logical form, lexical semantics, which studies word meanings and word relations, and conceptual semantics, which studies the cognitive structure of meaning.
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the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text.plural noun: semantics“such quibbling over semantics may seem petty stuff”
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I love words
I love using them
speaking themn
writing them
reading them
hearing them
and now,
being ever cautious of them. . .
Sometimes the right word
at the wrong time
is the very essence of
STICKS AND STONE WILL BREAK MY BONES
BUT WORDS WILL NEVER HURT ME
or did we read that
W R O N G. . .
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