Agentt
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So, me and my father were talking about how bad the literature curriculum is, when the topic shifted to teachers,
I wanted to tell him that joke, the one which is basically like this
So I began,
"Okay Dad, there exists a myth, a legend that....wait...what's the hindi word for myth and legend?"
So, for legend he said Maha Kavya, which is a better word for narration actually, bit I'll take it. It literally translates to Epic Writing.
But the word for myth was rather lackluster, it didn't had the oomph the English myth has, it was Avdharna, which literally translates to assumptions.
So, I wondered, what makes a word have more oomph?
My first guess was that the oomph of a word can be easily calculated by the formula
Amount of meanings the word has ÷ Amount of letters the word has.
Which made sense at the time.
I mean, short words like thrust, force, myth have way more coolness than their longer counterparts, such as....
*goes to thesaurus.com*
Such as compelsion or subjection, or fabrication.
But if it worked like that, wouldn't the word "set" be the most oomph word ever, given that it has the most number of meanings and is also so sooo small.
So, I changed the formula to
Amount of precise meanings/number of letters
But there was another problem.
Words like Gigantic are way cooler than saying big or huge, despite it having more letters and exactly same number of meanings.
So, how to make a word more oomph?
I wanted to tell him that joke, the one which is basically like this
So I began,
"Okay Dad, there exists a myth, a legend that....wait...what's the hindi word for myth and legend?"
So, for legend he said Maha Kavya, which is a better word for narration actually, bit I'll take it. It literally translates to Epic Writing.
But the word for myth was rather lackluster, it didn't had the oomph the English myth has, it was Avdharna, which literally translates to assumptions.
So, I wondered, what makes a word have more oomph?
My first guess was that the oomph of a word can be easily calculated by the formula
Amount of meanings the word has ÷ Amount of letters the word has.
Which made sense at the time.
I mean, short words like thrust, force, myth have way more coolness than their longer counterparts, such as....
*goes to thesaurus.com*
Such as compelsion or subjection, or fabrication.
But if it worked like that, wouldn't the word "set" be the most oomph word ever, given that it has the most number of meanings and is also so sooo small.
So, I changed the formula to
Amount of precise meanings/number of letters
But there was another problem.
Words like Gigantic are way cooler than saying big or huge, despite it having more letters and exactly same number of meanings.
So, how to make a word more oomph?
