What's The Good Word?

These days, I see everybody speaks in jargons and acronyms. “wfh” for working-from-home, “wfo” for working-from-office are two most often used letters these days. Ananth wished me “MHROTD” a week ago. As a small girl, when I used to receive greeting cards on my birthday, I used to look for two words – “Happy” and “Birthday”. Well, I get the message now but those two words that made me happy are missing.

It appears as though speaking in jargons and acronyms is a fashion and you are not “in” if you don’t. I am afraid words may soon wane out and we will eventually lose hold of any linguistic skill.

Of late, Chinmay and I spend Saturday afternoons playing a game of Scrabble. It is a simple word-game to form words from tiles you have and that fit on the board. It is fun and at the same time brushes up our vocabulary, gives us a chance to use new words that we have read somewhere. It is a great mind vitalizer.

Over Scrabble, we have also had many squabbles to check if the words were actually valid.
Did you know “qua” means “in the capacity of”? And the word “geek” has the following meanings:

1. A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.


2. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.


3. A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.

But believe it or not, we are at times tied up for words to make from a bunch of consonants on our racks. It is easy to make acronyms like “ttyl” and “bfn” with those! Ha ha ….but we have never given up and always made some good word.