{"id":796,"date":"2009-07-26T15:54:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T05:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=796"},"modified":"2009-07-19T16:12:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T06:12:10","slug":"importance-of-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/07\/importance-of-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Importance of words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading an old newsletter and came across a message I thought I&#8217;d share with you &#8211; words are important to humans.<\/p>\n<p>Think about the impact of the words you choose and use.<\/p>\n<p>Think about what words have done to\/for our world:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>started wars<\/li>\n<li>made people cry (or worse)<\/li>\n<li>made people laugh<\/li>\n<li>started deep emotional relationships<\/li>\n<li>ended people&#8217;s lives<\/li>\n<li>made people rich<\/li>\n<li>given a lot of pleasure (doubt that? Think of your favourite book&#8230;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Think of the impact of words on the careers of<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ACDC, Midnight Oil, Silver Chair, Michael Jackson and Cold Play &#8211; would their music be as popular without their lyrics?<\/li>\n<li>Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, Kate Winslet, Cameron Dias and Bud Tingwell &#8211; how good would their movies had been without a script or with a mediocre script?<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Rudd, Barack Obama, Julia Gillard, John Howard, Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi &#8211; a speechless politician wouldn&#8217;t get very far<\/li>\n<li>your favourite school teacher, sports coach and music teacher all needed words to make a career and help you<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So remember the importance of words, and using the right words, when planning your business and your marketing. Don&#8217;t be fooled &#8211; the words you choose in your promotions and materials will impact on your success &#8211; or not.<\/p>\n<p>Words are important so<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>choose appropriate words<\/li>\n<li>proof read to be sure your spelling and grammar support your choice of words<\/li>\n<li>check how words are perceived, not just what they mean (as a drastic example, the word gay means happy and cheerful but many people perceive it differently now)<\/li>\n<li>use as few words as necessary to get\u00a0the message across &#8211; think of words as important and limited<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Use your words wisely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading an old newsletter and came across a message I thought I&#8217;d share with you &#8211; words are important to humans. Think about the impact of the words you choose and use. Think about what words have done to\/for our world: started wars made people cry (or worse) made people laugh started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[969,968,675,970,201],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-choose","tag-impact","tag-important","tag-proof","tag-words"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}