Saturday, January 25, 2014

Words&Numbers

Do you ever think about, well, words in general? How they can be of great use to find brain games with them? For example, try splitting them into their syllables and mixing them to create unique words. Or take two different sounds in a word, and flip them. Like E and A sounds. We could even reverse the sounds in "sounds" to make "zounds". Do you ever think about how the American words sometimes replace certain letter sounds with different letter sounds? A lot of times, we say the z sound instead of the s sound. Even though the letter is an s. These are the kind of brain games I play with myself every day. We could change lots of s sounds into z sounds. Like "myzelf" instead of "myself". 

Only today did I realize how useful words (wordz) can be. Some people might not care about playing games (gamez) with words. In your head, not Words with Friends. Some people (peopul) might think it is silly. But I dont. I think a lot of people could use their brains (brainz) a little more. Plus, these kinds of games can help pass time. "Subtraction", for instance, could be "subchracshin". "Addition" could even be something like "udishin". Numbers, too, can be used thoughtfully to play games. But there has to be something, like a story, that has a certain number in it a lot to connect to your "base number", as I call it. Like 5 people who know 23 parks to go to that give free donuts. 2+3=5, and 2 is 3 before 5, 5 is 8 before 13, and 13 is 10 before 3. It's like a kind of cycle. I am sorry if I am boring you, but I kind of needed to share my thoughts. 

I also realized that numbers are more fun and, well, helpful in a way than I thought they were. 

2 comments:

  1. Wow Cav, I never thought about all that. I mean I play words with friends but I wish I could just spell them my own way sometimes with the letters I have. And I never think about numbers so thanks for this blog!

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  2. HI Cavan....you certainly have been thinking with that brain of yours. Words are funny and sometimes sound funny when you say them many times, many times, many times, many times. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.
    Papa B.

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