ThomasK
Subscriber since: Sun Mar 14 14:16:04 EDT 2010
About Me
Teacher, translator, journalist, word freak, from Belgium (Flanders)
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Favorite Word:

serendipity

Favorite Quote:

"Ama/ Dilige et fac quod vis"
- Augustine of Hippo)

Favorite Topics:

Blogs:

Business writing:

Nine ways to finish the writing you start
When You Should Reduce Your Goals

Copywriting:

Nine ways to finish the writing you start
The Lingo of Film Noir

Dictionaries:

The Post-Dictionary World?

Grammar:

Seven Sentences You Should Stop Writing
How to Make Your Sentences Shorter

Language:

Metaphors We Live By (Updated)
Brand Names of the Year for 2021

Linguistics:

Scale Your Onboarding

Linguists:

Joseph Stalin and Problems of Linguistics
Of Dialects, Vernaculars, and Code-Switching

Marketing:

What Do Plus Signs Add?
Brand Names of the Year for 2019

Media:

Understanding "Maven"

Naming:

Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
Understanding "Maven"

Poetry:

And Forget the He and She
In Praise of Ambiguity

Politics:

Suffrage and Language
Unidentified Aerial Horse Apples

Public relations:

Over Time, Euphemisms Develop
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Teachers:

Teaching:

Teach Your Children Well

Vocabulary:

The Post-Dictionary World?
A "Dumpster Fire" of a Year

Word Origins:

Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
Scale Your Onboarding

WordMasters:

WordMasters: Grade 3 Gold Division Jan-Feb '11
WordMasters: Grade 3 Blue Division Jan-Feb '11

Words:

Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
"Nine Nasty Words": How and Why We Curse

Writers:

Nine ways to finish the writing you start

Writing:

Nine ways to finish the writing you start