The love of language and other thoughts

Have you ever fallen in love with a word? Loved the sound of it so much, you simply started finding ways to use it in conversation, it happens with me a lot. It doesn't even have to be a fancy word, it just has to be a word that sounds pretty to me, I mean how pretty is the word tweak? I wanted to "tweak" my presentation. I want to "tweak" the recipe a bit. Enunciate, another word I love I know a weird choice but I just love the sound of it, "Enunciate your words"

My sister walked into the room as I was typing this so I took her input and she loves the sound of the word "doodle", it is a very cute word indeed, I like the sound of it too, its warm.

Then there are those words that are enchanting within themselves, words like "Enchanting", see what I did there? Enthralled, a friend says is an amazing word. My personal favorite is betrothed, it is so much more regal so say "My betrothed" rather than "My fiancée".

Its not even just English, I used to love saying "matala abr'alood hai" (the atmosphere is humid) as a kid, I used to hear the announcers at PTV News say it a lot. The best part is I didn't even know what matala or abr'alood is I just loved the sound of the words. I love words like, unsiyat, rafaqat, kashf, tanhaai, zarafat, taaluq, balooghat... Yes, yes! I know I got carried away, I just love words. There are even some names that just make me smile, that always did, you see those names that youlisten to and in your head you say "Apni aulaad ka rakhu gi yeh naam", now I don't know if that's just a me thing or just a woman thing or everyone does it. So back to the names, Eemaan, I just adore the name, Kaashif, Jaffer, Sanober, Aamna, Abdullah, Zaeem, Sarah, I just love the sound of these names and many others. Now I know what people who, might, hypothetically, be reading this would be saying, no I don't plan to have as many children as the number of names mentioned, these are just names I love. Oh and while we are on the topic of names, I have got to thank my parents for taking the time out and giving me an unusual name, Hurmat, I love hearing the sound of it. So there's that, my love of language, explained, now to the other stuff.

Have you ever ached for a place you have never been to? Just felt a longing (another word I love), an ache to just go there, be there, experience that place. It's been happening to me a lot these days, I wonder why?

Now for sharing some dread, I hate Mondays, specially because there is bad food for lunch at the cafeteria at work and then there's just the general feeling of hatred towards it because its the day after the weekend.

So the magazine did a story on zoos in Pakistan this week and we got some cute pictures of animals from the Islamabad and Lahore Zoo. I'd like to leave you with one particular picture that I loved so much I asked for a copy of it to keep in my phone.

Photo Credit: Shafiq Malik, Lahore.

This is one of the happiest pictures I have ever come across. A teddy having a bath!

On this, rather cheerful note, I should be off. May your Monday be happy and less stressful than mine. See you guys tomorrow.

Ta!