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used today are wreaking havoc on all of us, particularly on young children whose brains, immune systems, reproductive systems, and lungs are growing rapidly. "We have abundant
Nice. A shaggy, all-purpose word to be used sparingly in formal composition
Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.
Usage is like oxygen for ideas. That means every moment you're working on something without it being in the public it's actually dying, deprived of the oxygen of the real world.
Sometimes I use words to throw you from once scene to the other, and sometimes I use words to pull you from one scene to the other. You might not be aware of it, but I may have overlapping words one way or the other. So, I'm actually using words.
Divides into three classes,
things to be enjoyed, things to be used, and things which use and enjoy.
one of the worst things about electronic communication. Lacking facial expression, tone of voice, or context, words could be taken any number of ways. With only one cryptic word now, I was discouraged.
Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.
To decide what the best use of it is, you must ask what use the Enemy wants to make of it, and then do the opposite.
METHODICISM CHAPTER V. CRITICISM CHAPTER VI. ON EXAMPLES BOOK III. OF STRATEGY
All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!
A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored.
These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
most obvious application of functions is defining new vocabulary. Creating new words in regular, human-language prose is usually bad style. But in programming, it is indispensable.
These may or may not be used in your actual novels, but it will give you a sense of relationships and help you establish the habits needed to write on a regular basis.
The Word ought to be exposed in the words
It is not always wise to appear singular.
Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish, reduces itself to a hundred routine formulas at most, which he repeats over and over.
For the unquiet heart and brain,
A use in measured language lies.
You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.
Take words and make them useful,' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean something useful instead.
A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it promotes happiness, using that word in a crude and commonplace way.
Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in size and grown more timely and usable than ever.
Persons are to be loved; things are to be used.
I like to use things that didn't exist 50 years ago, or 20 years ago even.
The utility of a language as a tool of thought increases with the range of topics it can treat, but decreases with the amount of vocabulary and the complexity of grammatical rules which the user must keep in mind. Economy of notation is therefore important.
Something there is in cyberspace that doesn't love an apostrophe.
Used is to sued, as brick is to Kricb, and that is such a profound observation on my part that I'm afraid I don't fully grasp it at the moment.
Don't use language instrumentally
There is a use for almost everything.
The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.
Words can be used as a bomb or balm.
Live from abundance;
Utilize with economy;
Share in advance.
There is power in words used accurately and well, and tragedy and missed train connections in words used carelessly.
I'd heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word "utilize" instead of "use.
I have loved words, I have hated them, and I hope I have used them well.
The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
There's a use for everything and everything has it's use.
Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.
Use when you're piping the virus into the rats,
Never mind the use
do it!
Tis use alone that sanctifies expense
And splendor borrows all her rays from sense.
I know a helluva lot.
I'm not the only one who knows these things.
Many people know more than I do. That's fortunately not my problem.
My problem is what I am supposed to use it for.
What do I do with it?
It's confusing.
Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.
But to be constantly asking 'What is the use of it?' is unbecoming to those of broad vision and unworthy of free men.
The lexis is a measure of shared experience, which comes from interconnectedness. The number of users of the language forms only the first part of the equation: jumping in four centuries from 5 million English speakers to a billion.
Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.
Tools and instruments which can ease the effort of labor considerably are themselves not a product of labor but of work; they do not belong in the process of consumption but are part and parcel of the world of use objects.
The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.
If you're not going to use this is real life, why would you practice it?
The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth cannot be increased or its error diminished by its acceptance by the lexicographer. Each definition must stand on its own merits.
When you have something meaningful to say, you lose your desire for much grammar; for only in the incompetence of words does one seek the redeeming power of vocabulary.
Whenever I use an uncommon word, I try to indicate its meaning within the text.
Wisely selecting the words we use to describe the experiences in and of our lives can make us feel better thus impacting our decisions and actions.
i wield words as weapons.
Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.
In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it. A few feet from that chalkboard is a copy of the full 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, to which I refer frequently as a source of ideas and word roots.
Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.
Everyone uses everyone, Tee. Way of the world, isn't it?
Words are containers for power
Application is why we study the Bible.
Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct.
Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.
To be of use and to know how to show yourself of use, is to be twice as useful.
The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.-- Laozi
A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.
Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.
Sometimes in our zeal to "apply" a text, we fail to read the text in its context. And more often than we may all care to admit, our frustrations over how to apply a text can be completely resolved with a more accurate interpretation.
Wasing the where of needing, she read, forming the unfamiliar words. The lofty tongue was used for old documents dating to the time of the Origin, and occasionally for government ceremony.
The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.
Your taste for abbreviation meant that instead of finishing the works you undertook, you finished yourself. You
I work in my study, taking the collections of words that people send me and making small adjustments to them, changing something here and there, checking everything is in order and putting a part of myself into the text by introducing just a little bit of difference. ("Substitutions")
In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.
There is room for words on subjects other than last words.
The characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is understood more easily if it describes what an agent (system 2) does than if it describes what something is, what properties it has.
I suppose it's useful in designating writing that tends to come from personal experience, work that delineates an "I," but it's a loose lasso, one which may rope certain poems by one poet and not others.
I am a 'professional word seller'..I sell 'WORDS' for a 'living'...
'LIVING' with 'empowering' words is a 'Choice' we make..
'CHOICE' comes via the meaning we give to words we use..
'MEANING' comes from understanding 'life'...
Used every man according to his capacity.
It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!
The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.
People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.
Real life applications get tricky when we think about them.
Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.
Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes.
Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And in the beauty of the English language.
I used it in a shot where Richard Burton goes down the hall to get a gun in a closet. And I wanted to get some excitement, and the hallway was too narrow for the dollies that they had at that time. So it was quite useful.
When you work with words, words are your work.
It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when one needs them later.
Use it or lose it.
The power of letters is immeasurable. Use them with care".
An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
Some things are to be enjoyed, others to be used, and there are others to be enjoyed and used.
If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it.
If it is to be effective as a tool of thought, a notation must allow convenient expression not only of notions arising directly from a problem, but also of those arising in subsequent analysis, generalization, and specialization.
Lexicographers are language reporters.
Quite often, when an idea that could be helpful presents itself, we do not appreciate it, for it is so inconspicuous. The expert has, perhaps, no more ideas than the inexperienced, but appreciates more what he has and uses it better.
We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.
The most complete seems lacking. Yet in use it is not exhausted.
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.