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:
Let's Talk Turkey: A Word That's Waddled Round the Globe
November 25, 2014
- 6 Comments
Copywriting:
7 Tips for Making Quotes More Believable
August 13, 2014
- 5 Comments
Score One for the Apostrophe
October 19, 2011
- 9 Comments
Creativity:
Calling All Writers: Introducing Figment
May 16, 2011
SciPlay, So Far
November 30, 2010
- 2 Comments
Fiction writing:
"Novel" Gazing
November 14, 2014
- 1 Comment
The Life and Death of Fictional Characters
October 27, 2014
- 1 Comment
Fun:
The Palindrome Game of the Enigma Codebreakers
February 24, 2015
- 6 Comments
Grammar:
Tricky Plurals Inspire Some Grammatical Back-and-Forths
February 20, 2015
- 2 Comments
One Man's Quest to Correct "Comprise" Usage
February 12, 2015
- 1 Comment
How to write:
Language:
Hairy Metaphors
February 27, 2015
- 2 Comments
Truly, Madly, Deeply... BucketListly?
February 26, 2015
- 6 Comments
Language arts:
The Art of Subterfuge: Using Pop Culture to Create Interest in the Classics
December 5, 2014
- 4 Comments
"Sinister Buttocks" and the Dangers of Thesaurus Flipping
August 29, 2014
- 13 Comments
Libraries:
Librarians Suggest Good Books for Kids of All Ages
January 15, 2013
Love Your Librarian
September 26, 2011
- 4 Comments
Linguistics:
They Also Serve Who Only Kvetch and Tweet
December 1, 2014
- 7 Comments
Linguists:
Ben Zimmer Wins LSA's Linguistics Journalism Award
October 29, 2014
A Linguist Answers, "Why Do I Do What I Do?"
January 17, 2011
Marketing:
Brand Names of the Year for 2014
December 12, 2014
- 1 Comment
Plimsolls on Offer: British Borrowings in U.S. Marketing Speak
November 19, 2014
- 6 Comments
Marketing copy:
Copywriting Case Study: Building Business Success
March 17, 2008
- 1 Comment
Business Communicators: Got Metaphor?
February 25, 2008
- 3 Comments
Naming:
Truly, Madly, Deeply... BucketListly?
February 26, 2015
- 6 Comments
Getting on a First-Name Basis with Winter Storms
January 27, 2015
- 1 Comment
Online:
The Future of Dictionaries: A HuffPost Live Chat
January 21, 2015
- 1 Comment
Is Technology Destroying Language?
December 8, 2014
- 2 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
Politics:
A New Book Deciphers the Jargon of American Politics
October 8, 2014
- 1 Comment
The "Yanks" Are Coming: From Disparagement to Pride
July 4, 2014
Puzzle:
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: March Edition!
March 21, 2008
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: February Edition!
February 13, 2008
Reading:
The More We Change...
August 15, 2014
- 6 Comments
Strangers in Our Midst: Words We Skip While Reading
April 9, 2014
- 5 Comments
Self-publishing:
The March of the E-Books
March 25, 2013
- 15 Comments
Self-Publish Your Writing!
November 28, 2011
- 3 Comments
Storytelling:
Murray's Mission: My Greatest Elementary School Memory
May 7, 2014
- 7 Comments
Type Casting
January 24, 2012
- 2 Comments
Teachers:
The Art of Subterfuge: Using Pop Culture to Create Interest in the Classics
December 5, 2014
- 4 Comments
You Mean I Really Have to Write This?
October 24, 2014
- 9 Comments
Teaching:
The Art of Subterfuge: Using Pop Culture to Create Interest in the Classics
December 5, 2014
- 4 Comments
You Mean I Really Have to Write This?
October 24, 2014
- 9 Comments
Usage:
Hairy Metaphors
February 27, 2015
- 2 Comments
Geeking Out On "Fleek"
February 23, 2015
- 1 Comment
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
Word Origins:
Geeking Out On "Fleek"
February 23, 2015
- 1 Comment
"On the Media" Tackles "Whistleblowers"
February 17, 2015
- 1 Comment
WordMasters:
WordMasters: Grade 8 Gold Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
WordMasters: Grade 5 Gold Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
Words:
Hairy Metaphors
February 27, 2015
- 2 Comments
Geeking Out On "Fleek"
February 23, 2015
- 1 Comment
Writing:
Young readers:
How to Encourage Summer Reading
July 16, 2014
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