We don’t see dead people. We see bad grammar.

A couple of nights ago, on my way to grab a drink with the hubby, I stopped in the middle of the rain to take this picture.

And I thought, “No, YOU’RE on camera!” Click. Do you see it, too? Is it a blessing or a curse?

Sometimes I hear it. On the news, in song lyrics. I know I should just be able to enjoy a good song, but when I hear lyrics like the ones in “Crystal” by Depeche Mode,

“Here comes love, it’s like honey/You can’t buy it with money”

I stop singing and start arguing with whomever will listen (usually, again, the hubby) that you can buy honey with money, and if they’re trying to compare love to honey because it’s sweet then they really should get their similes in order. I guess they voted against changing the lyrics to:

“Here comes love, it’s sweet like honey; however, the similarities end there because you can’t buy love with money”

Maybe it didn’t have quite the ring they were going for?

Just a little end-of-the-week fun (in true wordy nerd fashion, of course)! Copy whatever you’re writing and paste it into Wordle.net, and the site creates this cute little word cloud based on which words you use most frequently. You can even customize the colors and orientations of the words.

I love Wordle because it appeals to the romantic, the movie lover and the writer in me. I say romantic because I pasted the text to my wedding ceremony into it and got this:

I just love how the words in English and Spanish jump out, creating an image that really captures the essence of the whole ceremony.

The movie lover in me pasted the words from one of my favorite film monologues, Tom Hanks’ “There’s no crying in baseball!” rant in A League of Their Own.

I love how the word “Crying” is just hanging over all the others, almost mocking them.

And then of course the writer in me thinks, this can also be a fun tool used to identify those crutch words I mentioned yesterday! So for example, if I paste the text from this post into Wordle, I get this:

Can’t say I’m too surprised that it looks like I use “words” a lot.

What does your Wordle look like? Post yours in the comments below or leave a url. (Just a hint: Wordles save as Java files but to save as an image, taking a screenshot does the trick.)