Tuesday, August 25, 2009

So what's with the name?

Synonyms and Antonyms - where did that come from?

I was wracking my brain, trying to come up with a good title for a Meaning of Work blog other than "Casey's Meaning of Work Blog." So I pulled out the thesaurus to look up synonyms of the words "meaning" and "work" hoping to come up with some interesting word play for a title. When I looked up the word "work," this is what I found:

Word: work
Synonyms: labor, chore, drudgery, toil, undertaking, commitment, stress, industry, etc...
Antonyms: entertainment, fun, pastime

It dawned on me that, so often, we try to categorize and separate work and play, when perhaps they aren't so exclusive. So the title of my blog speaks of bringing together both literal and proverbial synonyms and antonyms and as a result, blurring the lines between the two.

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