Kcecelia
Subscriber since: June 2008
Location:
San Francisco,
CA
About Me
I am a writer living in San Francisco, California. I love words and dictionaries, and I own many wonderful hard copy dictionaries. In the last few years I have expanded my love of dictionaries to the online versions. I encountered the Visual Thesaurus accidentally when Googling a better word for "lengthy." (I chose "protracted.") I am entranced by the way the Visual Thesaurus works. It will be a further aid in my quest to find just the right word to communicate each idea I wish to share.
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Favorite Word:
vividVivid is an intense, crisp little word as bright and full of life as its synonyms reveal. It is brilliant, bright, intense; graphically packing worlds into its five characters with one pointy repeated V. It possesses a smoothed sharpness in its aurally graphic internal alliteration. It is a pleasure to speak the world aloud, as well as to repeat it: vivid, vivid, vivid. It is from the Latin word vividus,"spirited, animated, lively," and from vivus, "alive," and its utterance fills one with life.
Least Favorite Word:
loadLoad is a small word that is excessively unattractive in its pronunciation as well as in its meanings. Its poor little rounded shoulders are weighted with more sadness of expression than it should be expected to support: onus, encumbrance, warhead. Just being in its neighborhood begins to weigh one down with its burdens. I feel sorry for it as I malign it, but it is a homely word.
Favorite Quote:
"The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven."
- John Milton
Favorite Topics:
Blogs:
Ben Zimmer on How Technology is Shaping Language
October 8, 2013
- 2 Comments
On Slate, Lexicon Valley Launches a New Language Blog
September 10, 2013
Books:
"Talk on the Wild Side" Is a Sharp Ode to Our Unruly, Resilient Language
December 21, 2018
- 1 Comment
How to Read More Books
November 19, 2018
- 5 Comments
Copywriting:
How Productive a Writer Are You?
December 18, 2017
Laughing Matters
November 5, 2017
- 4 Comments
Creativity:
"Disruptive" Names
October 24, 2018
- 3 Comments
Why I'm Writing This Column on a Treadmill
October 18, 2018
Fiction writing:
"Disruptive" Names
October 24, 2018
- 3 Comments
Do You Agree With These Quotes About Writing?
November 17, 2017
- 5 Comments
Grammar:
80th Column: Verbal Oddities
October 31, 2016
- 13 Comments
Order Your Adjectives: Failed and Nuclear
October 17, 2016
- 6 Comments
Language arts:
The Enduring Impact of English Teachers on Students
April 28, 2015
- 4 Comments
The Art of Subterfuge: Using Pop Culture to Create Interest in the Classics
December 5, 2014
- 4 Comments
Libraries:
Librarians Suggest Good Books for Kids of All Ages
January 15, 2013
Love Your Librarian
September 26, 2011
- 4 Comments
Linguists:
The Year of "Tender Age"
January 7, 2019
- 2 Comments
Marketing copy:
Work-Life Malarkey in the Entrepreneurial Economy
November 7, 2018
- 3 Comments
A Decade of Drivel: Happy Column-versary to Me
October 10, 2018
- 5 Comments
Poetry:
In Praise of Ambiguity
July 23, 2014
- 2 Comments
How the Rediscovery of a Poem Helped Kickstart the Renaissance
July 9, 2014
- 1 Comment
Puzzle:
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: March Edition!
March 21, 2008
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: February Edition!
February 13, 2008
Reading:
How to Read More Books
November 19, 2018
- 5 Comments
Pride and Prejudice and Natural Language Processing
April 2, 2018
- 2 Comments
Self-publishing:
The March of the E-Books
March 25, 2013
- 15 Comments
Self-Publish Your Writing!
November 28, 2011
- 4 Comments
Storytelling:
Murray's Mission: My Greatest Elementary School Memory
May 7, 2014
- 7 Comments
Type Casting
January 24, 2012
- 2 Comments
Teachers:
The Enduring Impact of English Teachers on Students
April 28, 2015
- 4 Comments
How Can English Teachers Nurture Young Writers?
March 6, 2015
- 2 Comments
Teaching:
The Enduring Impact of English Teachers on Students
April 28, 2015
- 4 Comments
Usage:
Slouching Toward (or Is It Towards?) Consistency
July 23, 2018
- 1 Comment
Words with Sharp Edges
May 1, 2018
- 8 Comments
Visual Thesaurus:
Word Cloud: A Film Inspired by the Visual Thesaurus
August 24, 2012
- 5 Comments
Reconsidering the Thesaurus
April 2, 2012
Web tools:
Twitter Me This: New Technology in the Language Arts Classroom
November 15, 2011
- 3 Comments
Tracking Dialects on Twitter: What's Coo and What's Koo?
November 4, 2011
- 4 Comments
WordMasters:
WordMasters: Grade 3 Blue Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
WordMasters: Grade 3 Gold Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
Writer's block:
Why You Should Write Like a Jazz Musician Plays
June 27, 2018
- 6 Comments
Young readers:
How to Encourage Summer Reading
July 16, 2014
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