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Tag: Words

  • Soft Skills

    Why do we see messiness in all sorts of businesses, teams and organizations?

    Here’s one reason. Language skills, communication skills are treated as ‘Soft Skills’.

    To make matters more messy, HR guys arrange training programs for ‘Soft Skills’.

    Parents make youngsters join ‘Soft Skills’ training institutes.

    There are other names too under which you are expected to softly absorb the Soft Skills. We know those names, no? New, more inventive names can be expected as we witness the softness envelop the world.

    And the Linkedinite who has undergone such ‘Soft Skills’ training and who tom-toms ‘Soft Skills’ as her mighty strength in her CV, will argue, “What do you know huh! It is so so hard to master Soft Skills; you can write here whatever. And so it is Soft Skills after all. Sofffft sofffft sofffft! You don’t know anything, Soni. Work happens because there is a softness in the words we utter, the manner in which we utter. Be soffft!”

    Do you smile? Do you smile when you talk? Isn’t it soffft then? Smile makes work happen.

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  • Why is it called so?

    Sharing a couple of pictures, taken from the internet, before making my point:

    A comparison image showing two types of shoes: on the left, a shoe labeled 'Wide Toe Box' with a natural toe shape on a green background, and on the right, a shoe labeled 'Wide Shoes' with a boat-shaped design on a red background.
    Collage of images showcasing various types of shoes with wide toe boxes, including barefoot shoes, sandals, and sneakers, highlighting their natural toe shapes.

    They call these shoes, which accommodate your toes and natural shape of the feet without scrunching, ‘wide toe box’ shoes. They’ve also been calling them barefoot shoes for quite long.

    Both are misnomers. They imply the acceptance of the boat-shaped shoes as ‘normal’.

    Huh! Never in the history of our evolution humans have had boat-shaped feet. Boat-shaped shoes are not normal. Not natural.

    It is these newer ‘wide toe box’ shoes which have natural-looking and natural-feeling toe boxes that are normal. Most natural. And therefore, they aren’t ‘wide’. They are exactly as I’ve been trying to say. Natural. Natural toe box. Yeah?

    We got used to wearing the non-normal boat-shaped shoes. Only now we’ve started adopting the natural toe box shoes. Long way to go. Have you stepped into the natural ones?

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  • In-come / In-coming

    Pardon the hyphen in those two words. It just occurred to me that two words mean very different things in usual parlance.

    Income

    Incoming

    The trigger for this thought? The word ‘inbox’.

    What occurs in the mind must be the most important ‘in’ word, no? In-head / inhead? In-mind / inmind?

    Of course, when talking with others, folks often speak, “what’s in your head?” But when talking with one’s own self, it feels appropriate to say, “what’s inhead?”

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  • Worming About Words

    What’s the trait you value most about yourself?

    Think of the word STORAGE.

    The way this word feels when spoken or written… As if everything in STORAGE is safe and sound and stationary and available when required.

    Turns out that Digital Storage is anything but safe and sound and stationary and available when required.

    When I worm about words, I come to know all sorts of things about our own behavior and machinations.

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  • Why a lot of them dislike me

    Let’s just say that’s the surest way to learn a lot of things. Or most of the things. If you are not logomachiacal you are losing something.

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  • Who knew…

    Who knew finding funny details using Google would be called Research.

    Google Search = Research

    Google = Re

    That’s where language has arrived.

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  • Full Form of MPA

    In any sphere of life now, there are only 2 types of activities left.

    1) Mobile Phone Activities, and
    2) Non-mobile Phone Activities

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  • WEBSITE

    A construction site sheds its name of CONSTRUCTION SITE after a while when the construction is all done. It is no longer considered a site.

    WEBSITE has been appropriately coined. It is always a SITE. Always something left to be constructed.

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  • Posts and Pages

    Publishing Software = Machine

    Machine Operators use machines to produce a certain output.

    I have become a better Machine Operator now.

    I shall be producing lengthier writing I sense; what we call articles and essays and such.

    As a Machine Operator, you can say I shall produce some pages now, in addition to posts.

    I used this post to enunciate a few expressions.

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  • Wording

    On what subject(s) are you an authority?

    Though a question like is a bit awkward too. Authority sounds heavy but I am ready to assume it.

    WORDING

    Example.

    There is a difference between GOAT and GREATEST RECORD BREAKER. Overlap possible but not necessary.

    Djokovic is the latter: GREB (Greatest Record Breaker).

    I’ve got the word. And now I am sleeping peacefully.

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  • Platfarm

    Repeat. Platfarm. PLAT and FARM.

    Farm is a platform for farmer to do farming?

    Platfarm is a farm for professionals to do their professional things.

    Farms have landlords.

    Platfarms have what? You got it.

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  • Couplet Quality

    Will Google ever be able to rank its search results based on the quality of couplets and poems written on a web-page?

    No?

    There you have the quality of the engine and the quality of commerce promoted by the engine.

    Disagree? Sure. Write a couplet of disagreement, can you?

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  • Visuosonic Process

    Reading is visuosonic process.

    I am misleading you. A little bit.

    It is a sonic process.

    What is a ‘word’?

    It doesn’t change when you are reading, writing or speaking and listening.

    While reading you are looking at a word?

    While writing you are creating a word in a visual shape?

    While speaking you are creating a word in some sound-like thing?

    While listening you are hearing a word in se sound-like thing?

    After you look at a word while reading, that looking creates a sound. Without that sound, there is nothing. No word, no meaning.

    Look serves the sound.

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  • I want to rhyme

    I want to write rhymes

    I want to play rhymes

    I want to work on rhymes

    Most of all

    I want to dream of rhymes.

    I want to dream of rhymes.

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  • Movements within Language

    Some meaning that was attributed to the word PASSION moved to the word EMOTION.

    I am not sure how deliberately and consciously we look at such movements of meanings.

    New meanings also get created and get attributed to the same words which did not mean those things at all.

    Crazy!

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  • No reason

    Human beings’ search for the inarticulable among words creates more words and yet more words, theories and yet more theories.

    Some help, many don’t.

    It might appear upon plenty of digging that certain words got created out of a need for change, more than anything else, more than accuracy or precision.

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  • A new -fix

    Yesterday, I talked about HABIT EXTENSION.

    Extension is strangely and naturally viewed as an addition at/to the end.

    But extension can be on any side in a 3D world. And a 3D world that can be sliced and moved anyway, extension can even be implemented by placing some more blocks in between any of the blocks.

    Prefix, Suffix, Interfix.

    Quote me on that. Interfix. I like that.

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  • I got this

    I got this.

    There is this popular expression WORKFLOW. I liken it to Business Processes. Correct me if they are different.

    Repetition of WORKFLOW makes or breaks your chances of mastering the workflow; that phenomenon in which you are moving satisfactorily and elegantly into and out of your work. Demands consciousness (Jaynesian sort), or conscious attention, at least till you get a hang of stuff in the initial few repetitions.

    And then we all know what’s HABIT. Seen simply, it is a mastery of certain ways of doing and thinking, supposedly not so sophisticated as what constitutes WORKFLOW.

    Let me cut this short.

    List all your habits.

    And list the end points of your habits, the last movement, the punctuation where the habit is treated to be over.

    And then consciously, deliberately, add a move that extends the habit; it is like adding a phrase, a clause or extending a sentence with some more words using commas.

    See how it gives a different shape to your routine, even to your WORKFLOW.

    See how such experiments take you close to that elegance only a master can exhibit.

    I call this HABIT EXTENSION. Note that down.

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  • Containers & Contents

    Both carry names: containers and contents.

    And when we talk, we use these names so spontaneously.

    For examples, take the expression ‘quality’. Is it a container? Is it content? Am I asking weird questions?

    Well, the question isn’t weird if we remind ourselves that the words that we speak ‘carry’ meanings. Can I say then that ‘carry’ implies some ‘container’, and if there’s a container there’s a possibility that there is ‘content’?

    Back to the expression ‘quality’. What is your sense, is it a container?

    To me it feels like a container.

    So, when we look at a thing and comment, “I am not convinced about the quality”, what do we mean? Just using the word ‘quality’ may not be sufficient. Your companion may get some idea or no idea of what you’ve talked about.

    ‘Quality’ could mean durability, fulfilling the purpose for which you are looking at the thing, aesthetics, smoothness, etc. You get the idea?

    ‘Quality’ the word in itself feels vague, even though it carries meaning. Empty container.

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  • This or This

    In my search for good books, I’ve come across book titles like these:

    You Are Born Funny Or The Funniness Gene

    I’ve made that title up actually. But I guess you get the drift. These are titles with effectively two titles or names for the book. ‘Or’ does that job.

    I’ve been thinking about giving a name or label to my kind of pants which I want to market and sell some time soon. And I boarded the ‘or’ naming train today morning. Here’s the result:

    Aircan Or Soni’s Chinos Or Type 475 Or…

    I love this sort of naming.

    I know I know what I’ve triggered here. A barrel full of questions!

    What would you actually write on the label since the space is tiny?

    What would be the domain name if you name your pants misusing the facility of ‘or’?

    What would want the potential customers to remember?

    What would you write on the social media posters? And in the social media posts?

    O God, it’s not a book, they are pants! Why are you doing this!

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