Words Under a Microscope

Words have meanings. Those meanings are present and observable. And to ignore or deny the existence of all the other meanings a word can potentially carry, and has carried, is to be missing something about what words are. It can be a little confusing to think of words in this way because using language is so normalized to us in everyday life. But how do you think the way you view words would change if it was your job to sit around all day studying them? What happens when you look at words under a microscope? What are they exactly? Well, just to continue the visual of the microscope at a mackerel level, we may just see the word just s as squiggly lines