signsofstatic
Subscriber since: May 2010
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Pittsburgh,
PA
About Me
I'm sorry, but this Visual Thesaurus thing is like a godsend... not because I'm a thesaurus MOron, but because when you take into consideration my superpowered AD/HD and it's comorbid and equally pesky counterpart... my check/recheck OCD tendencies... I come to the conclusion that this thesaurus will keep me busy for HOURS. Heh, just what I need. Another distraction. *Shrug* Oh well, I'm off to map my think because I'm just too impatient to wait any longer.
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Favorite Word:
incandescentpharmaco(disorienting) is actually my favorite, even though it's not a "real" word.
It's not a word in the prescriptive linguistic sense... but if you've ever seen a David Lynch film and/or you are familiar with film theory (especially regarding the voyeuristic elements... and how Lynchian cinema plays on the theme of scopophilia).... yeah, you probably understand what my pseudo-word means, and perhaps even appreciate said pseudo word; otherwise, feel free to ask. I'm an open book.
Least Favorite Word:
tastyIt's clearly just... unpleasant. When I hear it in public, I cringe. Maybe... no... Definitely I'm peculiar, but that word is just... "Mmmm, what a tasty, beefy, meaty meallllll." Can we say, 'emesis?'
Favorite Quote:
"GOODBYE TO ALL THAT
"Every dogma must have its day.""
- H.G. Wells (qtd. in John D. Barrow's book [The Artful Universe])
Favorite Topics:
Creativity:
Calling All Writers: Introducing Figment
May 16, 2011
SciPlay, So Far
November 30, 2010
- 2 Comments
Dictionaries:
A Taxing Day for Dictionaries
April 15, 2013
A Worldly Tour of the Oxford English Dictionary
January 23, 2013
- 3 Comments
Fiction writing:
The Power of General Statements
January 23, 2012
- 15 Comments
The Writer-Reader-Character Bond
August 8, 2011
- 12 Comments
Fun:
How "Baloney" Got Phony
May 3, 2013
- 2 Comments
Language:
An Army of "Strong" Slogans
May 17, 2013
- 4 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
Linguists:
A Linguist Answers, "Why Do I Do What I Do?"
January 17, 2011
Telling the Life Stories of Words
December 7, 2010
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
Poetry:
The Return of the Grammar Haiku Contest
February 28, 2013
- 2 Comments
Celebrating Fibonacci Day
November 15, 2012
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
Storytelling:
Type Casting
January 24, 2012
- 2 Comments
Shakespeare and the Hurricane
October 12, 2011
- 5 Comments
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
Vocabulary:
Unpalatable: A Plateful of Similar Words
May 16, 2013
- 7 Comments
Silicon Valley's Favorite Word: "Delight"
May 14, 2013
Word Origins:
Season Openers: Baseball Terms and Myths
April 23, 2013
April 23, 2013
March Madness: Are You Betting on "Chalk"?
March 22, 2013
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
- 3 Comments
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