Yesterday I loved a sentence.
“I bask in their jaunty youthfulness”.
I read in a post of the blog One Sunflower- journal of an early childhood teacher.
First I didn’t understand, bask and jaunty. So I didn’t comprehend the complete meaning of the sentence. When I knew about them, I thougth what fabulous words. I liked their meanings. After I understood the words, I love the sentece. It allowed me to live the image of basking in their jaunty youthfulness.
With this, I found how magic can be words. A word catches more words inside of it. Also catches a lot of meanings, ideas and feelings.
For example, bask is: to sunbathe, to enjoy, to let it caress. What you can write with this word.
Examples:
I bask in my favorite tree, every summer./I bask sunsets at the beach…/I bask mom’s caress.
jaunty
What does it mean? Synonims : chirk, cheerful, happy, joyful, lively,
ligth-hearted, chirpy, canty, boon, swinging, zappy, jocose, high-spirited.
Synonims are amazing ! Don’t you?
Synonims are beautiful. For describing or expressing something, we can find many forms of writing. There is a big Word’s World.
I love language.
Thanks to
One Sunflower- journal of an early childhood teacher http://onesunflower.wordpress.com/one-little-word/glimpse-march-5/
eeerandi 
Dear Erandi,
Thank you for sharing this slice into how you explored one sentence. I think it is a perfect insight into how we constantly adjust our understanding of a language. While I was living in Germany, bathroom stalls were a favorite source of new Germanisms. I would write them down and study their meanings, asking friends for their thoughts.
Happy Slicing
Erin
PS – I LOVE synonyms. We have an entire wall in our classroom covered with them.
The world of words is simply wonderful – experimenting with words an the images they create is so much fun, an can create such beauty. Thanks for sharing !
I love the whole concept of “Yesterday, I loved a sentence.” What a wonderful slice of life!!! I find myself loving many sentences in SOLS blogs.
Today I love YOUR sentence: “A word catches more words inside of it.” I am going to borrow this sentence to share with my 8th grade students. Your words are charming!
Hey – thanks for the compliment – and I love how you took the sentence apart. It’s funny because you did exactly what I did to build it in the first place! I thought of the feeling, chose the best words I could find, checked them out in the dictionary and voila!
I have never tried capturing in writing how my thinking goes when I learn/understand new words. I have noticed however that the words that you had never seen before start popping up in texts. Even though I read a lot in English, and use the Thesaurus, I sometimes struggle with finding the words that I need. There are just some things that don’t translate from one language (Estonian) to another (English.) But then again I struggle sometimes with finding the right words in my mother tongue also. Lets enjoy the adventure in “the big Word’s World.”
Terje
love the one sentence exercise.