This is a quick view into playing with words. Do you know words very well? Can you read a sentence where all of the words have had their letters re-organized into alphabetical order?
How abotu hist ceeennst?
Now as I look at the last word there, perhaps you notice that there are some letters that repeat? There are 3 ‘e’s, and 2 ‘n’s. If you have looked at any chemestry, you have very likely noticed that when an attom occurs multiple times in a molecule, that atom appears with a number after after it. The molecule of water could be written hOh, or Ohh, but is almost always written h2o. So ceeennst could be ce3n2st, or if you want to start with the largest value, it could be e3n2cst.
Speaking of molecules, perhaps you are familiar with the fact that long chains of specific atomic collections are either ‘long chain molecules’ or in some cases protines, which not only are comprised of a limited number of types of atoms, but also has the characteristic that the molecule folds at certain points in the string.
With writing and communicating we also string multiple words together to make sentences. If we consider a sentence to be either a ‘long chain molecule, or a folded protine, we can do a few more interesting things with words as well. Let’s say that the more characters that a word contains that are used only once, are ‘stiffer’ than words that contain multiples of a letter. So a word like ‘like’ while shorter than ‘Constantinople’, is also not quite as flexible. Where you could make this interesting is to use the concept to build up interesting presentations of sentences. A variation on this is to use punctuation and conjunctions to include loops or changes in direction.
So a sentence like this, with an example in the middle, has a loop that can either be there, or not.
You could pull apart a run on sentence, or paragraph and draw the sentence or paragraph as a collection of loops to show the writer where they could tie things up tighter.
I like to build collections of words where each word has some relevant to the word that follows. If you consider each word to be a point, the word comes between two (or more) other words, you can come up with some way of represent that relationship. Perhaps as a tangent to the line as it bends into new shapes.
Can such a relationship show that a paragraph may consist of a flower of leaf pedals that are loops of words that can stand as a single loop of their own, connect with other loops?
So go out, play with words. You might find something interesting.
