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Jon D.

Subscriber since: May 2008

Location: King of Prussia, PA

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About Me

Jon Deutsch is currently an interactive web communications & marketing director for IMS Health, a global health care intelligence firm. Beyond the day job: Technology design & usability consultant, blogger, electronic music composer, digital media maven, and political fiend.

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As someone who is steeped in hi-tech brand assessment and endless debates, I find "Bing" as Microsoft's search engine brand to be fairly effective for...

Hi Mo,

Allow me to parse the meaning behind the phrasing of my question: My use of the word "actually" was meant to indicate that the last thing I...

A fascinating view into the linguistic lens of this phenomenon.

In your article, you've touched on something that I'd request you explore for us...

That irresistible energy is a great way to convey the power of using deep contexts that underlie many simple words and phrases.

This helps explain...

During a tour in Denmark, the tour guide began describing the history and details around the Copenhagen Stock Exchange building...

Why do I feel like a certain 80s power ballad from Journey should be playing in the background of this post?

What I find ironic is how...

I am so glad you picked up on this as well, and wrote about it. I was listening to the press conference live, and I was struck not just by the word...

"Glide path" is a great phrase in that it paints a picture that we're all aware of, and all comfortable with. As a conceptual metaphor, it creates a...

I have two thoughts on the topic.

The first thought is pointed at Webster's editors: If overshare "hit the pop cultural mainstream" in 2000, then...

Meh being a meh word and being accepted as a word with such meh-ness is positively me(h)ta.

re: "Garner's advice for dealing with skunked terms is one of avoidance."

I'm not sure if this is the intent or not, but I would argue that...

Keith,

I think your anecdote points to a serious problem: "Nonplussed" is so contemporarily counter-defined that it is no longer eligible for your...

It's not just "my VP" (which was hypothetical) and Obama. There is a lot of activity around the evolution of meaning around this...

I took nonplussed to mean what Obama thought it meant as well. At what point do we need to rip a word from its roots and transplant it based on...

What I find fascinating from the political-linguistic perspective is how -- at least to me -- the conservatives are so much more in tune to symbolic...

We could go with "twitting it in" as the new incarnation -- it's both new-school and funny-sounding. Plus, it can act as a double-entendre for...

Interestingly, I've never heard of any of the other idiom blends you bullet-pointed out!

I have to say that I do believe there will be a time in my life when I will need to use the word vilipend. Just because it's not being used today...

I am of the school of thought that the anthropomorphism of these institutions do, indeed, have an impact on perception and perception management. ...

Seems as though this topic has some legs, Ben. Inti-mate (long-a) does work on multiple levels, but it actually falls short because of its utter...

You have my vote for Clever Title of the Year. At least to-date.

I think it can be boiled down to branding.

There's the brand of the newspaper, which informs the public at large what type of paper it is, what...

This was a quite informative piece, Ben. Thank you. Prior to your article, I had made the false assumption that the colors were linked to the...

I would be interested in better understanding why "automatic delegate" was considered by Ickes to be a reasonable alternative to superdelegate. I...

Obama's controversial "bitter-sweet" choice of words is particularly ironic considering the accolades he receives for being such a great orator. I...

This article has inspired me to to develop a philosophical mini-movement around procrastination.

In your piece in Slate, you wrote...

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Favorite Word:

design

Design, to me, embodies and melds strategy and creativity in an effort to best (re)solve problems and create value. The word design appeals to me because, as Visual Thesaurus indicates in the map, it is oriented in and around the concepts of creation, which is one of the most optimistic and positive ideas in life.

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