Vista Word
Here, I try expressing through pictures & words the many things that I love.
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Post reblogged from X is Off The Hooks
Text post #2. January 07, 2013
What is it with school? As a child, you get excited to go to school because you can meet new friends. But parents always tell you to never talk to strangers. So if you never talked to stranger, would you still have a friend?
And what is it with a friend? He who shows sympathy? He who lies around your house like it’s theirs? He who you see each day and treat you as family? He who you met online? He who have no idea who you are but accepts you for what you are? He who pretends like those scars doesn’t exist? He who will cry with you? He who will take measures just to save your life? He who puts bandages around your body? He who likes your company as much as you like them? Or he is something you just can’t label?
Friend. Noun. Derived from an Old English word “freon” meaning ‘to love’. So if you have a friend, you have ‘to love’. But just by removing a letter from ‘freon’ to ‘freo’, you will get ‘free’. In addition, you have to love and you are free. Rephrasing it: you have the freedom to love.
So if you want to have a friend, remember that you have the freedom to love him. If you do not love your friend, then you shouldn’t be called a friend. Would that be the case?
On my opinion, as long as you like a person and as long as you consider them as your friend (even though they don’t feel the same way), that person will be your friend no matter what. You just have to earn their trust.
So what is it with trust? Hmm. And trust will be soon off on its own course, sailing the deepest oceans of emotions and the darkest night of sadness and the widest skies of depression.
Trust is not for everyone to share it with. While writing this, I am trusting you my thoughts but I am not saying that you should do what is written on every piece of information here. I am trusting you my knowledge of the human race for you to use it in your own experiences. It is not for me to explain what trust is. I believe that humans have different ideas of trust.
There are also indications of trust issues in the human populace and its society. Teens of this generation suffers more of this. Suffering from this might affect social capabilities of the person. A deprivation of oneself amongst others because they are afraid that other people might hurt them is one of the foreseeable cause.
To end this, remember this: emotions play with humans that sometimes, humans make decisions out of hand.
This is X, closing out.
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Photo reblogged from causeilovedthesimplethoughtofyou
100 Beautiful and Ugly Words
by Mark Nichol
One of the many fascinating features of our language is how often words with pleasant associations are also quite pleasing on the tongue and even to the eye, and how many words, by contrast, acoustically and visually corroborate their disagreeable nature — look no further than the heading for this post.
Enrich the poetry of your prose by applying words that provide precise connotation while also evoking emotional responsesBeautiful Words
- Amorphous: indefinite, shapeless
- Beguile: deceive
- Caprice: impulse
- Cascade: steep waterfall
- Cashmere: fine, delicate wool
- Chrysalis: protective covering
- Cinnamon: an aromatic spice; its soft brown color
- Coalesce: unite, or fuse
- Crepuscular: dim, or twilit
- Crystalline: clear, or sparkling
- Desultory: half-hearted, meandering
- Diaphanous: gauzy
- Dulcet: sweet
- Ebullient: enthusiastic
- Effervescent: bubbly
- Elision: omission
- Enchanted: charmed
- Encompass: surround
- Enrapture: delighted
- Ephemeral: fleeting
- Epiphany: revelation
- Epitome: embodiment of the ideal
- Ethereal: celestial, unworldly, immaterial
- Etiquette: proper conduct
- Evanescent: fleeting
- Evocative: suggestive
- Exuberant: abundant, unrestrained, outsize
- Felicity: happiness, pleasantness
- Filament: thread, strand
- Halcyon: care-free
- Idyllic: contentedly pleasing
- Incorporeal: without form
- Incandescent: glowing, radiant, brilliant, zealous
- Ineffable: indescribable, unspeakable
- Inexorable: relentless
- Insouciance: nonchalance
- Iridescent: luster
- Languid: slow, listless
- Lassitude: fatigue
- Lilt: cheerful or buoyant song or movement
- Lithe: flexible, graceful
- Lullaby: soothing song
- Luminescence: dim chemical or organic light
- Mellifluous: smooth, sweet
- Mist: cloudy moisture, or similar literal or virtual obstacle
- Murmur: soothing sound
- Myriad: great number
- Nebulous: indistinct
- Opulent: ostentatious
- Penumbra: shade, shroud, fringe
- Plethora: abundance
- Quiescent: peaceful
- Quintessential: most purely representative or typical
- Radiant: glowing
- Redolent: aromatic, evocative
- Resonant: echoing, evocative
- Resplendent: shining
- Rhapsodic: intensely emotional
- Sapphire: rich, deep bluish purple
- Scintilla: trace
- Serendipitous: chance
- Serene: peaceful
- Somnolent: drowsy, sleep inducing
- Sonorous: loud, impressive, imposing
- Spherical: ball-like, globular
- Sublime: exalted, transcendent
- Succulent: juicy, tasty, rich
- Suffuse: flushed, full
- Susurration: whispering
- Symphony: harmonious assemblage
- Talisman: charm, magical device
- Tessellated: checkered in pattern
- Tranquility: peacefulness
- Vestige: trace
- Zenith: highest point
Ugly Words
- Cacophony: confused noise
- Cataclysm: flood, catastrophe, upheaval
- Chafe: irritate, abrade
- Coarse: common, crude, rough, harsh
- Cynical: distrustful, self-interested
- Decrepit: worn-out, run-down
- Disgust: aversion, distaste
- Grimace: expression of disgust or pain
- Grotesque: distorted, bizarre
- Harangue: rant
- Hirsute: hairy
- Hoarse: harsh, grating
- Leech: parasite,
- Maladroit: clumsy
- Mediocre: ordinary, of low quality
- Obstreperous: noisy, unruly
- Rancid: offensive, smelly
- Repugnant: distasteful
- Repulsive: disgusting
- Shriek: sharp, screeching sound
- Shrill: high-pitched sound
- Shun: avoid, ostracize
- Slaughter: butcher, carnage
- Unctuous: smug, ingratiating
- Visceral: crude, anatomically graphic
Notice how often attractive words present themselves to define other beautiful ones, and note also how many of them are interrelated, and what kind of sensations, impressions, and emotions they have in common. Also, try enunciating beautiful words as if they were ugly, or vice versa. Are their sounds suggestive of their quality, or does their meaning wholly determine their effect on us?
From Writers Write
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Photo reblogged from A Portrait of the English Major as a Young Woman
I have a few of these books on my shelves.
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Photo reblogged from Amanda Patterson
pronunciation | a-‘cat-a-lep-sE
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Link reblogged from Amanda Patterson
Agerasia
(n.) A lack of the signs of old ages; a youthful old age
“The agerasia of that fellow is amazing; look at him darting around on those skates!”Bayard
(n.) A person armed with the self-confidence of ignorance
“Only a bayard would walk past that bull.”Bed-swerver
(n.) An unfaithful spouse
“Phil refused to believe his wife was a bed-swerver.”Fard
(v.) To paint the face with cosmetics, so as to hide blemishes
“My wife’s tendency to fard in the bathroom for an hour made us late.”Gobemouche
(n.) One who believes anything, no matter how absurd
“That guy is a gobemouche–I told him that bull would not chase him, and he believed me.”Hansardize
(v.) To show that a person has previously espoused opinions differing from the ones he or she now holds
“Tom hansardized Phil by showing us a letter Phil had written to him.”Inadvertist
(n.) One who persistently fails to take notice of things
“I am an inadvertist when it comes to driving. I run over about 3 things a month.”Killcrop
(n.) A brat who never ceases to be hungry, and was popularly thought to be a fairy that was substituted for the child
“Once upon a time, wicked faeries kidnapped a child and replaced it with an evil killcrop.”Maritality
(n.) Excessive or undue affection on the part of a wife for her husband
“Marge’s maritality was driving Burt insane, so he went out with his buddies.”Natiform
(adj.) Buttock-shaped
“The children giggled when they saw the natiform pumpkin.”Obmutescence
(n.) The state or condition of obstinately or willfully refusing to speak
“The sullen boy glared at his mother in obmutescence.”Plinyism
(n.) A statement or account of dubious correctness or accuracy, such as some found in the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder
“Saying that the moon is made of cheese is pure plinyism.”Quaresimal
(adj.) Said of a meal, having the qualities of food served during Lent; austere, skimpy
“We only had a few pieces of chicken, and after our quaresimal meal, we were still hungry.”Scrouge
(v.) To inconvenience or discomfort a person by pressing against him or her or by standing too close
“I was standing in the elevator when six other people got in, and one in particular scrouged me into a corner.”Yepsen
(n.) The amount that can be held in two hands cupped together also, the two cupped hands themselves
“The pond was nearly dry; barely more than a yepsen of water was left.”From Grammar.Net
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Photo reblogged from teaching literacy.
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Tricia Wang at #TumblrArt Symposium:“There is a possible tension between Tumblr’s respect for unbounded, flexible identity and the Madison Avenue push to learn more and more about the people they want to reach on the Tumblr platform. So essentially, advertisers… Please. Don’t. Kill. Tumblr. So far, Tumblr has not shown any signs this is going to happen. If anything, they continue to publicly talk about the importance of maintaining Tumblr’s creative culture.” [Video of Tricia’s talk starts at 01:11:53]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/e52c90938297f36ef9360b8ff62f0a67/tumblr_mjgvcf3D661r7ealro1_r2_500.gif)
Tricia Wang at #TumblrArt Symposium:
“There is a possible tension between Tumblr’s respect for unbounded, flexible identity and the Madison Avenue push to learn more and more about the people they want to reach on the Tumblr platform. So essentially, advertisers… Please. Don’t. Kill. Tumblr. So far, Tumblr has not shown any signs this is going to happen. If anything, they continue to publicly talk about the importance of maintaining Tumblr’s creative culture.”
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Photo reblogged from Amanda Patterson
I once pretended to have an upset stomach and sat in the bathroom all day with my book, during exams! Actually, I did that many times.
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Photo reblogged from Random thoughts
Always a bookstore!
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Photo reblogged from Reasoning With Dana
It’s genius. By the end of the sentence, the reader appreciates what the character is experiencing.
