Is the English Language Talking Back to Us?
Pray or Prey / Prophet or Profit / Worship or Warship / Parish or Perish
Is the English Language Talking Back to Us?
I believe that it is – and that homonyms are Freudian slips of the cultural unconscious. I also believe that the four pairs of homonyms cited above reveal the overt justification and underlying motivation for the ultimate oxyMoron, the so-called Holy War.
So consider this: If the Word creates the World—as its spelling indicates that it does—and if ‘Life and Death are in the power of the tongue’ as Scriptures states that they are, then now is clearly the time for all of us to throw off the yoke of bad ideas (many of which are actually embedded in English language symbols and sounds and affirmed each time we speak our mind). We can actually begin to purposefully use the Word for the World’s ReCreation.