Dan S.
Subscriber since: October 2005
Location:
Edina,
MN
About Me
I am a child of deaf parents. My childhood home was quiet enough, but filled with familiar noises (stomping on a hardwood floor to get someone's attention is one). While my high school education in a small Missouri town was sorely inadequate, I was fortunate enough to find myself along the way. I became something of an autodidact, wanting to know about absolutely everything but hating the formality of education. I discovered 'way late in life that I was actually somewhat intelligent, and the creative elements in my occupational choices have kept me intensely interested. I’m a verbal, creative person who loves the language, the words, the wordplay.
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Favorite Word:
auteurMy favorite thing to say aloud is actually 'Guy de Maupassant' but this 'favorites' thing wouldn't register that. So I used the French word for 'author' - which is also fun.
But the French author's name is wondeful thing to say aloud. It's the last half of the name of Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant. He's apparently the father of the short story. Who knew? It just rolls off the tongue. Start with a hard 'g' sound...
Least Favorite Word:
likeWell, it's like one of the most-used and, like, least-needed of, like, words in a teenager's, like, life. Knowhatimean?
Favorite Quote:
""No matter how cool you are, or how how badass you think you might be; if a toddler hands you their ringing toy phone, you'd better answer it.""
- Anon.
Favorite Topics:
Fun:
How "Baloney" Got Phony
May 3, 2013
- 2 Comments
Language arts:
A Wicked Worksheet of the Week
May 15, 2013
Lori Wilfong on the Do's and Don'ts of Vocabulary Instruction
March 7, 2013
- 1 Comment
Language:
An Army of "Strong" Slogans
May 17, 2013
- 4 Comments
Marketing:
How to Name Anything
January 17, 2013
- 4 Comments
Brand Names of the Year for 2012
December 11, 2012
- 8 Comments
Media:
Words from a "Surreal" Week in Boston
April 22, 2013
- 2 Comments
Roger Ebert's Lexicon: Fruit Carts, Idiot Plots, and Wunza Movies
April 5, 2013
- 7 Comments
Word Origins:
Season Openers: Baseball Terms and Myths
April 23, 2013
April 23, 2013
March Madness: Are You Betting on "Chalk"?
March 22, 2013
Reading:
Staring, Glancing and Glaring Through Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight"
March 7, 2013
- 2 Comments
Writing Packed with Life
February 4, 2013
- 5 Comments
Spelling:
Scripps National Spelling Bee Adds Vocabulary Questions
April 11, 2013
- 3 Comments
Rosanne Cash Knows Her "Ischium" at a Literary Spelling Bee
November 20, 2012
- 1 Comment
Usage:
An Army of "Strong" Slogans
May 17, 2013
- 4 Comments
Unpalatable: A Plateful of Similar Words
May 16, 2013
- 7 Comments
Visual Thesaurus:
Word Cloud: A Film Inspired by the Visual Thesaurus
August 24, 2012
- 5 Comments
Reconsidering the Thesaurus
April 2, 2012
Words:
An Army of "Strong" Slogans
May 17, 2013
- 4 Comments
Unpalatable: A Plateful of Similar Words
May 16, 2013
- 7 Comments
Writers:
Flash, Gleam, Glint, Sparkle: McPhee, Woolf, and Words
May 7, 2013
- 2 Comments
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