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Welcome to rearing morphemes: the art of socializing word-seeds.

You may be wondering about the title, rearing morphemes. From what did it spring? In short it came to thought while I was considering the concept and meaning of "word."

The morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning in a language, a word-seed. It may, itself, be a word or not. Some words are a single morpheme, however, most are composed of multiple morphemes. Morphemes may be words or they may be non-words with meaning used to construct a word that properly conveys an idea. Morphology is the in-depth study of these and is not my career path. Please do not expect such expertise in my posts. To my knowledge, scholars have never referred to morphemes as word-seeds.

The idea of rearing theses smallest units was the result of thinking of how I have used them. To grow them would suggest they just mature in some meaningful way. But to rear them suggests socializing them to work with other morphemes to form words, phrases, lines and sentences that share an idea, experience or feeling with another. Socializing morphemes makes that fancy possible. Hence the title.

Writing in verse, prose or hybrid, the writer must be alert to the morphemes within a word. The meaning the writer wishes to convey may be lost by a single morpheme. Effective poetic license often depends upon one morpheme placed well or poorly. And the morpheme can be employed like oil to help meaning slip through tight or coarse language.

Without morphemes, who could play with language and create reasoned-nonsense that delights the a child as well as the adult? Could you?

So it is that this blog is dedicated to the smallest elements that flavor the line while remaining discreetly in the shadows. I hope to honor to the morpheme by rearing or socializing it creatively and properly. May you, the reader, find the blog posts interesting, provocative or whimsical and ever enjoyable.

Your thoughts are invited. Please use the comments to contest an idea, to mitigate failure and to encourage me when I succeed. Both blog and blogger are nourished and reared through the socialized word-seeds of visitors and followers.

Warmly,

+Carolyn St.Charles


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