gl refers to reflected light or seeing (which requires light) when followed by lighter syllables: glint, glisten, glamour, glitter, glass. When youre glad you glow, youre filled with glee -- your person reflects light. When followed with an n, the light or seeing becomes diminutive. gleam is more consistent than glisten; glare more persistent than glance. glands are the smallest of human organs. A glen is the only gl with the eh sound, which must do something to change the meaning, but the n ensures it refers to a small valley, rather than a big one. As the next syllables get lower, you no longer gleam, but are gloomy, glum. You are not light or quick, but slow and sticky like glue or glob; you do not reveal through sight but hide with a glove; you are not expressing or reflecting energy, but consuming like a glutton. Its as if the u in gloom is a vacuum from which the light of gl cannot escape. Establishing a system of this for all the phonemes is going to take up all my free time. Cant. Freaking. Wait. Words themselves are metaphors. Every syllable an image. Together, they create a scene.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 02:06:56 +0000
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