Favorite Words

SavvySuzy tagged me with a “Favorite Words” meme that was initially started by Isabella at Change Therapy. SavvySuzy is in MyBlogLog.

Isabella came up with “let’s make this a meme!” — her rules follows:

* what are your favourite words, and why?
* what does that tell us about you?
* write about it on your blog and invite other bloggers to write about it.

* link back to this blog (change therapy at http://www.moritherapy.org, and

i’ll

* gather the words and contributors in a list and publish it
* stumble your “favourite word” post (as long as they meet my stumble criteria, which shouldn’t be difficult with a post like this)

My “Favorite Words” list:

This was harder than I imagined. I have been searching for the words to the last 24 hours! I would like to have found words that sound nice and also represent something nice or even valuable. I could not find any! I tried English and Finnish but always either of my demands was missing. So I decided to go for the words that have a great value to me.

1) Mathematics – since it is present everywhere. All people just can’t see it, but every object you can see around you has involved a lot of mathematics when it was planned and created. It is included in many abstract things, too, even though I think feelings should not be “mathematicized”

2) Puzzle – and especially the English word. Finnish does not even have one that would represent all the aspects. A puzzle can be mechanical, logical or mathematical and it may contain pieces, words, numbers, lines or pixels. Even life is puzzling sometimes.

3) Laskutikku – the Finnish word for slide rule (we often join the words to a compound). A neat thing, which has had to move aside because of the calculators. I remember the magic using it.

4) Concept – the idea which starts to form in your head and finally develops to something, a theory or a solution of a problem which has been bothering you.

5) Satisfaction – the incredible feeling you have when you have gained something regarding words 1) and 2)

I forgot the second part of the meme, as Isabella pointed out in her comment. I maybe thought it was obvious what these words tell about me.

To a normal person I seem like a prototype of the mathematics professor from jokes. I am so wrapped up in my mathematical world that I may not notice what happens around me :) Well, it's not actually so bad. To me the most beautiful things in the world can be found in mathematics. I am a teacher and when I start teaching, my topics gets me so carried away. The students know that and sometimes laugh about it, but many have started to see the beauty themselves. The same beauty I can find in all kinds of puzzles, but I am totally into Japanese picture logic puzzles and as my blog title tells, Conceptis makes the best puzzles and feeds my addiction. The slide rule tells that I am old-fashioned and think that using calculators leaves out an important aspect of the solving process, estimating the answer!

“Isabella hasn’t posted a deadline on her meme but since she will be posting a list of all the contributers, I would imagine participating sooner is better than later.”

Anyone is free to participate. But I will tag a few using the same strategy Suzy did, people from MyBlogLog:

Bloghenge from Bloghenge Blog is Fun!
JwJ from Ysei and
billspaced from Rants 'n Reviews