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:
auteurIt's actually 'Guy de Maupassant' but this 'favorites' thing wouldn't register that. So I used the French word for 'author' - which is also kinda fun.
What a wondeful thing to say aloud. It's the last half of the name of Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant, a French writer who lived in the late 1800s. 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:
"If you think you can, or if you think you can't, you're probably right."
- Henry Ford
Favorite Topics:
Advertising:
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
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
Fiction writing:
The Writer-Reader-Character Bond
August 8, 2011
- 12 Comments
Fun:
"Downton Abbey": Tracking the Anachronisms
February 10, 2012
- 6 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
Libraries:
Love Your Librarian
September 26, 2011
- 4 Comments
"Get Your Geek On" at Public Libraries
November 19, 2010
- 9 Comments
Linguistics:
Surveying the Mind-Boggling Diversity of American English
February 8, 2012
- 4 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
Media:
Introducing "Lexicon Valley"
February 7, 2012
Exposure, Excitement, Inspiration
December 19, 2011
- 4 Comments
Public relations:
Optimizing Your Press Releases For the Web
February 15, 2008
- 1 Comment
Publicity How-To, For Free
January 17, 2008
Reading:
Shakespeare and the Hurricane
October 12, 2011
- 5 Comments
Spelling:
What's a Misle?
December 7, 2011
Now Pitching in the World Series: The Man They Call "Scrabble"
October 21, 2011
- 6 Comments
Storytelling:
Type Casting
January 24, 2012
- 2 Comments
Shakespeare and the Hurricane
October 12, 2011
- 5 Comments
Usage:
"Downton Abbey": Tracking the Anachronisms
February 10, 2012
- 6 Comments
Visual Thesaurus:
Vote for the VT as Top Language Website!
December 23, 2011
Jamie McKenzie on Finding the Best Words
November 16, 2011
- 6 Comments
Words:
"Downton Abbey": Tracking the Anachronisms
February 10, 2012
- 6 Comments
Writers:
"Not to Put Too Fine a Point Upon It": How Dickens Helped Shape the Lexicon
February 3, 2012
- 12 Comments
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