i was just wondering..
as a kid i've always wondered about the sound that emits from a word and am particularly curious about words like 'world' and 'heart'..
of course there is a branch of numerology that calculates the number vibration given in a word.
"A famous linguist once said that of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, that cellar door is the most beautiful." That was Tolkien..
the one word that continually appears allurring to me the way 'cellar door' does is the word 'languid'. i love the way it sounds and i love saying it, feeling the way the mouth and throat moves towards expressing the sound of the word..
what's yours?
as a kid i've always wondered about the sound that emits from a word and am particularly curious about words like 'world' and 'heart'..
of course there is a branch of numerology that calculates the number vibration given in a word.
"A famous linguist once said that of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, that cellar door is the most beautiful." That was Tolkien..
the one word that continually appears allurring to me the way 'cellar door' does is the word 'languid'. i love the way it sounds and i love saying it, feeling the way the mouth and throat moves towards expressing the sound of the word..
what's yours?
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Re: words that have a special taste in your mouth
Sun, February 11, 2007 - 11:04 AMI love the word "beautiful" ... it's very dynamic :-)
I also like “realization”, “crazy”, “awesome”, and “absurd”
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Re: words that have a special taste in your mouth
Thu, April 19, 2007 - 1:28 AMok it took me a while, but i really like the words awe-some and wonder-ful, im not sure if its more because of the sound or the meaning...either way i love these words... -
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Re: words that have a special taste in your mouth
Thu, May 31, 2007 - 2:22 PMi love the sound of sanskrit.
sanskrit is an "original" language, meaning it did not evolve from another language. hindi is an evolution (or distortion) of sanskrit. in their wisdom, the indians kept sanskrit pure and seperate from the hindi.
sanskrit is so ancient, so pre-technology that the words were chosen because they made a sound that resonated with the aspect of a person's energetic body that evokes the inner experience of what the word represents.
some of our english words are obviously congruent with this idea, and i think those are the words that are most inclined to give this special taste. like "awe". it is both a word and a vocable. ah, or awe, is an automatic sound that is emoted with the sensation of awe. and we have some words that are dead-wrong distortions of this concept, like aweful. i think aweful came from a similar distortion as whatever the semitic or aramaic equivilant of "awe" was, mis-translated as fear. to be in awe of god (not fear). -
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Re: words that have a special taste in your mouth
Mon, July 9, 2007 - 7:18 PMI too like the sanskrit language although i must confess other than coming across a sanskrit word here and there, i haven't had the passion to really study the language even on a basic level. Ancient greek somehow interests me more but it's so difficult.
generally words with no hard consonants have an appeal for me. but words with a silent hard consonant often lends character to the word.
" sanskrit is so ancient, so pre-technology that the words were chosen because they made a sound that resonated with the aspect of a person's energetic body that evokes the inner experience of what the word represents. "
the flow of energy from words to form seem to be one that goes both ways, like the chicken and egg question. we may also experience a high level of vibration from the words we use in our own language today just as much as ancient/dead languages.
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Re: words that have a special taste in your mouth
Fri, July 6, 2007 - 10:32 PMI have a strong affinity for the word "fecundity". It requires careful manipulation of the tongue, teeth, and lower lip. It also requires the jaw to drop, and a delicate roundness is felt. -
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Re: words that have a special taste in your mouth
Wed, August 1, 2007 - 2:02 PMStrange I like words that end in "iant" For example:
Brilliant, reliant, elequent, subserviant, elegant, intelligent...
I also like words that have the same syllabillic sounds of "beautiful"
Delightful, resourceful, plentiful, equivocal -
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Re: words that have a special taste in your mouth
Wed, November 21, 2007 - 3:32 AMSorry to dig up an old thread.. but I just joined....
I enjoy very descriptive and/or specific words...
Awash, bellicose, cacophony, delectable, effervescent, flippant...and on down the alphabet.
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Re: words that have a special taste in your mouth
Thu, June 5, 2008 - 2:41 PM
...about Sankrit there is also a phisic aspect: the different energetic circuits (mudra) created in the mouth by speaking it.
one word i like is Bhav which means attitude -
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Re: words that have a special taste in your mouth
Thu, June 26, 2008 - 1:03 AMinteresting the similarity of "am" and "Om",
the distance, almost sharpness outside of an outstretched palm or pointing finger denoting the difference between us and them inherent in "is"
the inclusiveness, roundness, of "are"
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