Sunday, April 10, 2011

"More" or "Less"


Length of Shower:  My shower today was extensive
 --I am not a great person with vocabulary words (as you can probably tell by this point).  But it seems to me that there are a lot of words out there to describe “many” or “a lot” like: frequent, multitude, plethora, tons, often, numerous, periodic, bountiful, several, countless, and even rife to name only some off the top of my head.  But there aren’t nearly as many words to describe a small amount like: few, scarce, rare, meager, sparse, poor, and seldom.  Now there are ways of describing a smaller amount by using a form of a large amount word, like the words infrequent or uncommon; but that’s not what I’m talking about.  I'm talking about actual root words.  Of course, I haven’t actually researched this but I feel like if I did I would find this to be true.  This leads me to think that this issue contributes to some of our societal issues with money and greed.  We have more words for “more” and a lot less words for “less” and therefore we think more in terms of more and that thinking leads to selfishness and greed.  

Speaking of that, I would like some more variety of morning cereal in my cabinet, I don’t think 5 is enough.  Sorry about that randomness, but I’m just ravenous today.  Ah, see...another word for "more"!

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