Alex C.
Subscriber since: October 2009
Location: Ibiza, Spain
About Me
I am an island painter
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Least Favorite Word:

awesome
aarrggghhh, I despise this over used mall-word
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Favorite Topics:

Books:

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

Creativity:

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

Dictionaries:

I DARE Say!
January 17, 2012
Quotable Moments of 2011
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers December 23, 2011 - 5 Comments

Fiction writing:

The Power of General Statements
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers January 23, 2012 - 15 Comments
The Writer-Reader-Character Bond
August 8, 2011 - 12 Comments

Grammar:

Grammar Bite: Making Media Agree
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers November 17, 2011 - 6 Comments
"Bad" Grammar in Ads: License to Annoy?
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers November 14, 2011 - 8 Comments

How to write:

Seven Ways to Stop Editing While You Write
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers January 11, 2012 - 24 Comments
Do Writers Really Need to Learn Math?
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers December 13, 2011 - 6 Comments

Language:

"Downton Abbey": Tracking the Anachronisms
February 10, 2012 - 5 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

Linguistics:

Surveying the Mind-Boggling Diversity of American English
February 8, 2012 - 4 Comments
Get Your Creak On
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers January 31, 2012 - 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

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

Words:

"Downton Abbey": Tracking the Anachronisms
February 10, 2012 - 5 Comments
Houses of Straw: Flimsy Votes and Arguments
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers February 9, 2012 - 4 Comments