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TIME, AGAIN
Dear all again,
If you happened to have read my
last article, you may remember
it ended with the word
Time
in
capitals. And if you read the other
articles by now you’ve noticed I have
a little obssession with words. Why
do words become what they are and
how?.
This
Time
I amspecifically interested
in the word
TIME
, how useful it has
become and how hateful sometimes.
There are endless expressions with
the word
Time
in, “It’s
time
, it’s
high
time
, kill
time
, waste
time
, to
be behind the
times
...”.
Some societies like ours value
Time
as much as Gold, others, more
practical like the Saxon, say “
Time
is Money”. And normally when we
don’t have more
TIME
, we die”. How
terrible can
time
be!.
But the question is when did
time
begin having the meaning of
time
?.
According to the New Oxford
American Dictionary,
Time
is “the
indefinite continued progress of
existence and events in the past,
present, and future regarded as a
whole”.
It seems the word
TIME
dates back
to the 13th-14th century and comes
from the Old English tima “limited
space of
time
” which had evoluted
from”tide”meaning “cut or divide”.
But when did
Time
become this
horrible monster who is always
keeping us repeating the words “I
don’t have
time
”. We don’t visit our
families because we don’t have
time
,
we don’t cook like our mummies
because we don’t have
time
, we
don’t do sport, we don’t make love,
we don’t, we don’t, because we don’t
have
time
.