Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?
To be honest, I struggle with words. I often forget them, you know, the official ones. Instead, I make words up. I use home-made words that sound similar to the real thing. Usually, they're some sort of confused hybrid of two existing words.
Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.
Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.
Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.
If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.
If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.