Wordie [wûrd • ē]

If you are a thesaurus addict and portmanteau word enthusiast like I am than you would certainly love this new service called ← Wordie.org →.

They say that they are “Like Flickr, but without the photos” but I think that they are better. I was always unimpressed with Flickr and FFFFOUND!, because - aside from their image storing capabilities - these are simply attention suckers with no productive return. You sit there drool over beautiful things that you could have seen and touched in real life and have no way to even know where the photograph came from or what meaning or context hides behind them.

In Wordie on the other hand, I always find myself hypothesising and appropriating the meanings of words that I came across, even if those are not found in a traditional dictionary. It makes one think, and be passionate about new meanings.

p.s.: I though that I had come up with a new word, infrastructuralist, when I was trying to describe Cedric Price in my writing, when I suddenly came across it in wordie.