I mentioned in my about section that I would some day write something on words. Well, I was just reading old journal entries, and apparently I've written about it before.

written on 04 August 2005 :

on words. When I was in middle school, my favorite word was teriyaki. In college, it changed to flip. Now it's television. But I'm lately becoming infatuated with daguerreotype.

reasoning :

teriyaki - I thought it sounded cool. I think that's as far as my mind went in middle school. Nothing beyond surface.

flip - I loved how small and short the word was, how it rolled off my tongue when I said it. It takes so little time to say flip! It's cute. I like the flip sound of flippies. I think that's the only clothing item that is named after its otomatopoeia.

television - I also liked the way it sounded, but I like to think about how visionary the people were that thought up the word. Can you imagine how they must have felt when they invented the television set? I picture them thinking about what they were going to call this device. tele-vision. They must have been filled with hope.

daguerrotype - I studied these briefly in Art History AP in high school. I like the silvery quality of them, how they look like liquid pressed into an image. I read about daguerrotypes in a recent blog entry... I had forgotten all about them until then. I think it's a lost art form.

oh also! I find it morbidly fascinating... the whole dagguereotype thing. It was a type of photography that used mercury. Tons of people died from it. That's mostly why it's a lost art form. People dying making the things they love? That's beautiful. It happened to Duane Hansen too, which the chemicals he used for his sculptures.