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Tag: Words

  • Nature of Justice

    And now I tried understanding the difference between engine and machine.

    It seems to me as if I understood nothing about such matters back in school and, so rightfully, I am not a silly engineer.

    Unbelievable what I am reading and understanding at this stage of my life. Word Blindness, atrocious!

    First Google result on my screen:

    Machine with moving parts converts the power into motion. A machine consumes energy whereas an engine produces energy. Engine converts heat energy to Mechanical Energy but machine converts all forms of energy to mechanical energy except heat energy. A engine runs a machine, without an engine a machine can’t run.

    As much as I like to believe this, it sounds misleading. That last sentence above.

    Without an engine a machine can’t run?!?!?!

    Really?

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  • Word Blindness

    I could give it any other name too.

    It was only day before yesterday when I really pondered over the words motor and machine. I used them interchangeably.

    What’s the difference?

    The first result from Google:

    Motor can be with or without an engine. Its function is to create rotation and get some work done through its rotation. Machine is something that reduces human effort. It works by the energy that is produced by the engine and motor.

    Aaah, while I get it, I shall now have to ponder over motor, machine, engine, rotor et al.

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  • Platforms are Motors

    Platforms, online marketplaces are motors that help you sell.

    It took some time for me to get this. They are motors.

    Imagine a thing called ‘marketplace’, yes there’s ‘place’ in there, has to be understood as a motor. It’s a motor. Place = Motor. Marketmotor?!

    Brick and mortar stores can be called motors? Sure, but they do not feel like that.

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  • Protonics & Neutronics

    Electron 》》》Electronics

    Extending this relationhip to other related words…

    Proton? 》》》Protonics?

    Neutron? 》》》Neutronics?

    Are there books that delve into these too?

    Let me try a search.

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  • What do these coinages mean?

    Some words and coinages related to my favorite subject, maintenance.

    Maintain | Maintainer

    Maintenance | Maintenancer

    And I detest the meaninglessness that ‘manage’ has fallen into.

    Manage | Manager

    Management | Managementer

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  • Googster

    It is a new expression to capture a phenomenon observed for a few years now.

    (n.) A youngster who feels informed and intelligent because of using Google.

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  • Steps

    Planner

    To-do list

    Productivity Tools

    Bullet Journal

    None of these expressions and names convinced me. Something about them makes the coming moments, the day of work feel so heavy. Yaaaaaawn!

    Couple of days back, the expression ‘steps’ struck me. Born to take steps. Woke up to take steps. Filling the day with steps. Dynamic and hope-inducing.

    Next steps?

    List of steps?

    Steps today?

    Steps yesterday?

    Steps towards?

    Do you some difference? What’s your sense?

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  • Sounds of Words

    These 3 words this morning…

    Exertions

    Exquisite

    Extricate

    First word, a noun, sounds good only in plural.

    Second one, an adjective.

    Third one, a verb.

    I did not deliberate before recording them.

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  • Market Trends?

    It’s just another set of words for FASHION.

    MBAs promoted and appropriated MARKET TRENDS for their purposes because at some point FASHION felt like a down-market non-intellectual expression.

    And while MBAs are good consumers of FASHION, they can barely sense or make sense of FASHION.

    Given this, now think about what they do in the name of MARKET TRENDS.

    My hypothesis is Non-MBAs do a better job of sensing MARKET TRENDS.

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  • Don’t make it a machine again

    Machines create books.

    Machines create websites.

    Machines create machines.

    Your website can feel like a book or it can feel like a machine. There are easy machines, funny machines, tough machines et al.

    To me, ‘website’ feels like a bad name for an information product. But it has been here for so long. Am sure makers of websites, typically, do not even understand the meaning of the expression ‘site’, off-site and on-site notwithstanding.

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  • Words and Impact

    What do you think?

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  • Daily writing prompt
    Tell us about the last thing you got excited about.
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    I chanced upon the expression ‘source of words’ and then in the process of writing a post with that title, I chanced upon the expression ‘container of words’.

    Very exciting for me in the context of learning of second (or non-native) languages.

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  • Sources of Words

    That title shouldn’t be confused with some popular meanings.

    For those who are good at language, histories or etymological accounts of words would count as sources of words. In this sense, sources of words feel like origins of words.

    For those who are looking to improve their language skills, especially in the context of a non-native language, they wouldn’t even be aware of words. They need to come across words. Consciously knowing the sources of words, so that they could come across words, would help. Sources of words for such folks would just be where the words are available in abundance, where words can drown them, where they have to wade through words and words, plenty of them.

    Sources of words are not origins.

    Sources of words are huge collections of words. One would point to the dictionary. Sure. And there are non-textbooks. Sources of words are containers of words. Any word can pop-open a container of words.

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  • The Adjectivals

    Today in the mood to cleave the marketers into 2 groups:

    Adjectivals

    Non-adjectivals

    Actually, all of the world can be grouped into these 2. One is far far far smaller than the other. Which one?

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  • Fashleisure

    There was that cringe word promoted quite a bit by Jockey: Athleisure.

    What do we have now? Just checked an ad by Nibero calling its shorts ‘Fashleisure’.

    Hello word-coiners, have some mercy! You can’t splash such funniness…

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  • Wordin and Naming

    Category Name

    Brand Name

    Domain Name

    Tagline / Punchline / Battlecry

    Capture the change you want to see. Capture the issue where you want to effect a change.

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  • Cluster of words

    Progress

    Accumulation

    Movement

    Additions

    Incremental

    Piling

    Rising

    Growing

    Extending

    Increasing

    Further

    Journey

    Clusters come in list-form too.

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  • Are you a D2C Brand?

    I read and hear many people say ‘D2C Brand’ in introducing or talking about certain businesses.

    While showering just a while back, I asked myself, ‘What is a D2C Brand?’

    When customers speak about a brand, do they utter these exact words, ‘D2C Brand’?

    Conveniences in semantics and sentence-forming gives rise to such expressions and somehow many people adopt these and utter them naturally.

    One doesn’t know when this little adoption of innocuous or exact-feeling expressions becomes a distortion, a barrier when opportunities to present a business arises.

    What good is a D2C Brand for buyers and consumers? What good is it for you to utter that yours is a D2C Brand?

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  • Whatever made this process of marketing to be called ‘branding’. Of course, even burning money in repetitive advertising for the purpose of branding often doesn’t make branding happen.

    Suppose we leave aside the ‘burning money’ phrase and focus more on messaging. In that case would it be worth calling the process ‘etching’.

    Then the language changes weirdly.

    I own the brand.

    I own the etch?! Oops!

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  • Love, Silly, Whatsapp

    Dear Razia Sultan,

    Things have changed. They were messy in your time? I want you to take birth again, and see what it is like right now. You may have to learn quite a few trivial things to do anything important in these times. Okay, I can tell you a lot of things and you may understand nothing; it is not a comment on your intelligence. It is just the way things are.

    So what will you say using these 3 words?

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