Language Losses

i realize i have so much wonderful exchanges and muses on fb, that i must contain them here. is another one

• Sherry Stewart

  While at The Quileute speaking with a native American there, I noticed my ideas, and wording, 'hiking', and somehow it seemed like a trite way to talk about going out in nature.
  
  So I am wondering, where did we get that word, and how does it differ from what really goes on when we go out exploring?
  
  For me, it is the difference between a trail of grueling switchbacks, and or flat surfaces that I find so boring, and the hopping around over logs and rocks that I love to do that requires more energetics and balance, as seeing things from other perspectives. I think I am not a good hiker, I am more like a grasshopper.

  
  

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      Maven Huggins or how bout something along the line of communicating with nature and grounding to the earth space and vortex you are walking?...something like that.. a word for that...earth loving ?
      
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      Maven Huggins we really should consider murdering the english language- so much depth and meaning and soul is lost from many of its words and one does not discover this until one studies and tries to learn to speak and be fluent in other languages...
      

      
      
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      Maven Huggins nevertheless, thank God for literacy/
      

      
      
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      Maven Huggins what did we speak before the written road?

      
      

      Maven Huggins the written word. :OL> what a muse this is
      

      
      
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