I've got a hobby...its dangerously unconventional..But I would say its same as painting..Like a an artist mixes colours in his palette and bring out those vibrant shades,I believe words are like colours..Like colours have emotions words also have them..from happy to euphoric and from euphoric to ecstatic...they are all subtle shade variations of a single emotion-joy...each word is so different yet so similar...like the shades of green..its olive green,parrot green or apple green...but its just green at the end of it...the root is green...
And my hobby is to disintegrate the words to find the root..to find the meaning from atomic level...Its a lovely feeling to find out the meaning of a word from roots..Its like a cryptic crossword...you are blind folded..but you grope your way to the goal..there's Latin,there's the french and the mighty Greeks who've influenced the English language...
A penchant to atomize words (tome->a small part of a huge volume,atom-->something that cannot be cut up further) -my hobby...
Probably like numismatics i'll call myself a tomwordphile or something... :) :)...
The world of linguists have always fascinated me...the books that took me to never never lands and the words that helped me reveal the thoughts of my heart......
I simply love words....
#EXPLORERCHALLENGE: DISCOVERING BOMBAY'S FORTS
10 years ago
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Well i dont think its strange. There is a whole science behind it called Etymology. It is the study of the history of words - when they entered a language, from what source, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.
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