WORD on the One Hand

Dear Linguists, Transromantics, Fictionists
& Colleagues Across the Curriculum:
(Courses w/o Borders Series)

“I learned a new word in school today, mommy.” “I learned a new sentence in school today, mommy."

Which of these two sounds strange? Why?

I claim, always for the sake & in hopes of argument, that
our schooling teaches “sentence-knowing," we swim in
sentence-knowing—not WORD-making. We stress
packages & parcels rather than parts & pieces.
We learn SENTENCE in school, our alma
matrix: but not word-wording. .

WORD! (You hear folks saying that, with emphasis.).
You don’t hear anyone shouting
SENTENCE !
How come? .

Words are Ideas (concepts, constellations,
possibilities, potencies)


Sentences are applications, reductions, impotencies
arrows of purpose & intentionality, getRdone
instruments of expression and command....



Can you see the difference? Between “word-ing” and
“sentence-ness”? Substantial, yes? Incommensurate:
can’t measure the values of WORD against the values
of SENTENCE, (or vice versa), true?

It’d be like Freddy Flatlander estimating (assessing,
evaluating) the significance of Sally Sphere—yes?
See what I’m saying?

“WE” TEACH YOU GUYS in “SENTENCES”
not in “Words”—so to speak. All your schooling
has been Sentence-Schooling not Word-Schooling.
Need we argue?

Rationalizing my irrationality:
my courses turn up the mess, confusion,
random chaos resourcefulness prior to syntax &
the making of sentences. primordial, not yet logical:
the I’m-lost-&-we’re-not-going- anywhere prerequisite
to eureka and heuristics. Makes good sense that they
feel that way. Used to Sentence Education.

“WORD” puts IT in play.
IT, I said. Ice Cream Parlor in Hell
& are they just going to Get Along?

Do I overstate? I am large: I contain pulchritude.
This is not yr Hamil Complex Talk This is Jensen Talk:
Humanities-Division talk. Ludic. Ludicrous!

A difference that makes a difference.

xxxooo, Sam
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