Monday, October 25, 2010

The Linguist

He knows words.
He speaks the language.
He denotes and connotes.
He can make words jump through flaming hoops, dive from high dives, and do back flips off of cliffs.
He can turn black into white and back into black again.
He analyzes roots, prefixes, and suffixes until they're just meaningless clumps of letters.

He knows two thousand four hundred ninety-five ways to say the same thing...

...but he does not always know what to say.

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