Sometimes It's About Perspective

This here blog do-hick-ey started round '05, a little more than four years ago. Yet this entire time, I was convinced that "Fjord" meant a geographical landmass that was made up of two out-thrust arms of land, between a low-lying valley that was inundated by the ocean. A clearly photogenic landmass that (while some have never seen except in pictures, such as myself) we can all agree looks phenomenal.

However, today, I was in my destiny chamber (posted link even tho there's a horrible typo. It's supposed to read "come with me to my destiny chamber" but you get the gyst.) And I was stuck with the thought of, "How easy would it be to convince people that "fjord" also means crossing a river."

If I wrote the word "Ford" what would you think? A car, a truck, a company? Would you really think that it meant anything other than a machine? If I told you the only way to cross this river without a bridge, was to go to the fjord two miles down, would you know exactly what I meant? (Of course you would, its a pronunciation difference, with a slight inflection, an inflection that is nearly a silent letter. In fact, it makes more sense in this age of word evolution to call a ford a fjord)

Would you have the cajones to tell me, "No, it's not a fjord, it's a ford! You ford a river on horseback or on foot! You can't and don't fjord anything!"

Hey, if you had the balls to stand up for ford, I'd be happy. I'm not saying I'd support you, but I'd be happy to see these things aired out in a public space. (without an iphone or google) Words are only what people agree they mean. I'm pretty sure (knowing the populace like I do) that it would be really hard to convince 60% of the audience that the correct term for "the fjord" of a river was actually "the ford" of the river.

And thus, thanx to my destiny chamber, I am now happy that 4 years later, I realize that Fjord is not only a landmass, but the passage across a river. A span of land that is covered over with water, yet still connects two divided chunks of land. Fantastic!