Thread: What's in a Word?

Pausing between shaving strokes this morning my oddly constructed mind asked me, "What's in a Word?" "What word", I asked myself. "A word describing your actions relating to straight razor shaving and all that goes with it", my silent self responded. "You're going to make me work to figure it out consciously, aren't you?", I queried. The heavy silence that followed indicated that once again I was on my own in uncharted waters. So.......

Hopefully, one word will emerge, but I have a feeling its going to be many words, different for each person:

Collector: Not me, not disciplined enough to structure a plan to acquire specific items or areas of interest.

User: Possibility, but there are complications to that usage.

Hoarder: Maybe close, after all, as a fabric artist I do have a wall of fabric to work from and a closet or two overflowing with the same. And I hate to let go of things (under duress or budget usually).

Connoisseur: Good God! That denotes a level of appreciation that I reserve only for very, very specific situations, and this isn't one of them.

Acquirer: I will go with this one. I like to acquire many examples, and side items related to said examples. Not a hoarder because I can get rid of items without remorse and not feel that I must replace them. To further define the word I have to add a second word with a slash to denote my exact and specific state. I am an *ACQUIER/USER*. There, I've said it, not the first step of a recovery program, but the first step in admitting that I have a specific place in the pantheon of straight razor (and the like) users.

Richard, you forgot a word....'addicted! That one doesn't apply to me 'cause I can go 3 days without shaving or a month without buying a razor and not fall into a coma...well, a deep coma anyway.

Bruce, I deliberately left that out because it is intrinsically embedded in the root meaning of each word I used. Not a root in words like 'like' or 'prefer'.

--Devotee--

Thanks for the effort but a devotee is a dilettante. A lookie loo in my book - a skimmer with no depth.

A devotee is an enthusiast. A dilettante is a person who dabbles in a subject. Few dilettantes rise to the level of a true devotee. When they do they are no longer dilettantes.

ace, what can I say, they are the same to me and I guess that makes me a snob.

Shazam ?

--Aficionado--

Attaboy ........ ......... sorry, couldn't resist ..... I'll quit now ....