Modern history

A Wordle of recent crumbs.

Lovin' it

So I was 'reliably' informed the other day that the word 'love' was not in fact a verb (Newsboys, you got a lotta splainin' to do) and had not been used participially before the advent of the McDonald's "I'm Lovin' it" advertising campaign run by Haye & Partner since September 2, 2003 (in German) and Septemer 25, 2003 (in English).

To this, I present:

IRVING BERLIN WROTE "I'LL BE LOVING YOU, ALWAYS" IN 1925. JOSEPHINE BAKER MADE THE FIRST RECORDING IN 1926.

FRANK SINATRA RECORDED THE SONG IN 1942. THAT SAME YEAR, THE SONG BECAME THE THEME MUSIC FOR "PRIDE OF THE YANKEES", THE STORY ABOUT LOU GEHRIG.

THE MOVIE STARRED GARY COOPER, TERESA WRIGHT, AND WALTER BRENNAN. IT WAS NOMINATED FOR ELEVEN ACADEMY AWARDS.

Source.

Words

There is something about them. You can almost argue from the existence of words to the existence of God. Of course, you can't really do this. However, let me elaborate.

Facts are things that are objectively so. The existence of a rock in space-time, for example. A word, however, adds meaning to a fact. Not necessarily spiritual meaning, or moral meaning or even relational meaning, but meaning. It takes the bare fact of existence and forms it into an idea. They cannot help but narrate the universe as we know it.

Much like Calvin's view of revelation, in a way. God's words narrate his works. Words give meaning to actions.

Now this is only a baby thought, and I need interaction to refine and develop it more.

Thoughts please!*

*Yes Simone, I'll even welcome your overtly Platonic thoughts too. :P

Shakespeare, most creativelyable poet of their time

Which of these words used nowhere else than in Shakespeare do you like the best?

* bepray
* bragless
* compulsative
* conceptious
* confineless
* continuantly
* correctioner
* disliken
* exceptless
* exsufflicate
* foxship
* insultment
* oathable
* offendress
* omittance
* overgreen
* overstink
* questant
* razorable
* successantly
* thoughten
* uprighteously
* wenchless