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Robert Parks <rqparks at gmail.com>, 10 Ara 2019 Sal, 00:00 tarihinde şunu yazdı:
> *Invitation to Nominate the Wordsmyth “Word of the Year”*
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> This is my annual invitation – or plea – to my friends to nominate a word
> as “Word of the Year” (WOTY) on the Wordsmyth website (www.wordsmyth.net).
> This yearly WOTY campaign is part of the Wordsmyth mission to enrich our
> relationship with our words – to encourage everyone to notice, observe, and
> experiment with words as we search for the interesting and significant
> ideas, and give notice to the words that bear them. Thanks for listening,
> and for contributing your nomination.
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> As I reflected this morning on how to craft this plea, I found in my email
> inbox a newsletter that is a regular source of inspiration for me - Maria
> Popova’s newsletter, “Brain Pickings”. (www.brainpickings.org) In this
> newsletter Popova introduces Neil Gaiman’s poetic tribute to women and
> their science. (
> https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/11/25/the-mushroom-hunters-animation-neil-gaiman/)
> It's a wonderful poem. So I decided to use it to show how words can be
> picked out for nomination as word of the year.
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> The poem begins with a definition of science:
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> *Science, as you know, my little one, is the study of the nature and
> behaviour of the universe. It’s based on observation, on experiment, and
> measurement, and the formulation of laws to describe the facts revealed.*
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> The core of Gaiman's poetic tribute to women and their science is his
> notice of the observations and experiments and measurements that led to the
> development of tools for living. Any of these words would be a good
> choice for WOTY. But he goes on to link these observations and
> measurements with the construction of a human way of life.
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> *The tools we make to build our lives: our clothes, our food, our path
> home… all these things we base on observation, on experiment, on
> measurement, on truth.*
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> The poem concludes by noting the slings the first women crafted to carry
> their babies, and the creation of vessels to carry the food they gathered.
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> *The men go running on after beasts.*
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> *The scientists walk more slowly, over to the brow of the hill and down to
> the water’s edge and past the place where the red clay runs. They are
> carrying their babies in the slings they made, freeing their hands to pick
> the mushrooms.*
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> It seems that Gaiman has put the word “sling” at the heart of the
> understanding and caring that women have cultivated as they observed,
> measured, experimented and invented on our human journey. Carrying the
> baby keeps the child close and warm, and also frees the hands.
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> He also mentions the need for something to hold the mushrooms – a “basket”
> perhaps? Do we need a word for the vessel to carry the mushrooms? I think
> we do. Popova’s newsletter also notes Hannah Arendt’s comment that “An
> experience makes its appearance only when it is being said. And unless it
> is said it is, so to speak, non-existent.” The experience of the first
> woman who used or constructed something to carry her mushrooms could appear
> for others when a word was made for the idea. If it is an important idea,
> supporting a way of life, it needs a word and we need to care for that word
> as we care for that idea.
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> Gaiman’s point is that science is built with deep care, and women have
> participated in the science that has produced our ways of life. This is a
> lesson much needed in our times.
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> I hope someone nominates “sling” and “basket” as Words of the Year. The
> knowledge they emerge from, and the caring that keeps these words in our
> way of life, are both ancient and important.
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> Don't forget to go to http://www.wordsmyth.net and nominate a word or
> idea you believe is important but perhaps neglected.
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> Thanks for listening.
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> Bob Parks
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> Wordsmyth
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> • To understanding the meaning of life, we need to understand the life of
> meaning.
> • Each word is a window on all meaning, if we can only open it.
> • Community grows as we communicate, honing our words till their meanings
> tap into the rich voice of our full human potential.
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