pako.
Subscriber since: June 2009
Location: Bilbao, Spain
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Advertiser, carpenter, artist and web developer
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Favorite Word:

love
Is the deepest hapinness.
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Least Favorite Word:

hate
makes us suffer
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Favorite Quote:

"love and do what you want"
- Ignacio de Loiola

Favorite Topics:

Advertising:

"Bad" Grammar in Ads: License to Annoy?
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers November 14, 2011 - 8 Comments
Mass-Market Artisans
October 26, 2011 - 5 Comments

Books:

Surveying the Mind-Boggling Diversity of American English
February 8, 2012 - 4 Comments
I DARE Say!
January 17, 2012

Branding:

The Ündeniable Ümlaut
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers January 19, 2012 - 9 Comments
Brand Names of the Year for 2011
December 6, 2011 - 3 Comments

Business writing:

Red Pen Diaries: Das Kapitalization
November 8, 2010 - 6 Comments
Buzzword Watch: "Acq-hire"
September 28, 2010 - 7 Comments

Copywriting:

Score One for the Apostrophe
October 19, 2011 - 9 Comments
The Case of the Lay Flat Collar
June 29, 2010 - 19 Comments

Creativity:

Calling All Writers: Introducing Figment
May 16, 2011
SciPlay, So Far
November 30, 2010 - 2 Comments

Fun:

"Downton Abbey": Tracking the Anachronisms
February 10, 2012 - 6 Comments
Massaging European Issues
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers February 2, 2012 - 8 Comments

Language:

"Downton Abbey": Tracking the Anachronisms
February 10, 2012 - 6 Comments
Surveying the Mind-Boggling Diversity of American English
February 8, 2012 - 4 Comments

Language arts:

The Wild Kingdom of Animal Adjectives
January 31, 2012
Better Off Banished?
January 24, 2012 - 3 Comments

Marketing:

Score One for the Apostrophe
October 19, 2011 - 9 Comments
"And One More Thing": The Insanely Great Language of Steve Jobs
October 7, 2011 - 7 Comments

Marketing copy:

Copywriting Case Study: Building Business Success
March 17, 2008 - 1 Comment
Business Communicators: Got Metaphor?
February 25, 2008 - 3 Comments

Poetry:

Ducking Under the Caution Tape: Approachable Poems
January 30, 2012 - 3 Comments
Song of Myself: Spoken Word Poetry in the Classroom
May 30, 2011 - 4 Comments

Students:

This Summer: Reading Pays!
June 20, 2011
What's in a Name? Students Reveal Their Words
June 14, 2011 - 14 Comments

Web tools:

Your Virtual Bookshelf
November 25, 2008
Is Dr. Johnson Rolling in His Grave?
October 21, 2008

Word Origins:

"Cacophony": A Word for the Digital World
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers February 7, 2012 - 3 Comments
Word Tasting Notes: "Geoduck"
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers January 26, 2012 - 6 Comments

Young readers:

Taken Into Context: History and Fiction in the Classroom
October 20, 2011 - 3 Comments
This Summer: Reading Pays!
June 20, 2011