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Subject: Re: words

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Rich

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Date Posted: Fri, Feb 13 2004, 14:11:18
In reply to: Rich 's message, "words" on Mon, Feb 09 2004, 13:27:44

You�ve certainly taken this to heart auff but it was my posting so it is my say

The compound words are better as you can individuate the ones they�re made from and this makes them more poetic and descriptive, which is why they sound so good.
Gridlock is good as you can see the mesh of the city from above and picture it all locked up with cars. It makes people seem small and below their creations.
Turnpike is much too good a word for what it is. Relating it to roads it makes it sound like some kind of spiral junction or something. Not a tollbooth road or whatever the hell it is.
The important thing is that they have no words in them that relate directly to what they mean.
So they�re not like Carstop or Tollroad.
Traffic jam is two words for this reason.
It sounds shit and makes you think of a load of cars immersed in jam so it doesn�t work.

A carrot�s just a carrot

Turnstile
Highway

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Author: Rich [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: Fri, Feb 13 2004, 14:15:21 although I did like novel-ties