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  1. Evasive Maneuvers

     Inaccurate Refrains and Other False Notes
    Tue Jun 11 00:00:00 EDT 2019
    If only all reprehensible rewordings were satirical rather than serious. But as long as homo sapiens hem and haw and holler horse apples, I'll be on the job, collecting those apples in my train of twaddle.

  2. Language Lounge

     The Most Influential Lexicographer You've Never Heard Of
    Mon Jun 03 00:00:00 EDT 2019
    Lexicography has been and continues to be a gig occupation for many who do it, and that is the case for Charles Sanders Peirce. One place he found work was in writing definitions for the Century Dictionary, which may be the greatest dictionary you've never heard of.

  3. Word Count

     Are You Really a Perfectionist?
    Thu May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2019
    Perfectionism is a beguiling word with "perfect" at the root. Who doesn't want to be perfect? But, giving yourself a label — even a pretty one — doesn't help one iota, unless you know how to change your behavior.

  4. Candlepower

     Let's Talk e-Scooters
    Thu May 16 00:00:00 EDT 2019
    This fast-growing transportation trend has added some new terms to our vocabulary, and revived some older ones.

  5. Evasive Maneuvers

     Pro-informed Partisan Palaver Starring Heckboy
    Thu May 09 00:00:00 EDT 2019
    I dunno if dueling fact perceptions is an iota less ridiculous than partisan facts, or the ever-popular alternative facts. Any way you slice it, you're choosing to live in a thin bubble of baloney. Speaking of baloney, the drivel deli is always open here at Evasive Maneuvers.

  6. Language Lounge

     Get Real
    Wed May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019
    Regardless of where your views fall on the political spectrum, there's a pretty good chance that you subscribe to the idea that we are in a new age of inauthenticity. The modern world makes it even more of a challenge to "get real" when we are communicating with language.

  7. Candlepower

     A Nation of "Nations"
    Wed Apr 17 00:00:00 EDT 2019
    The ubiquitous, and relatively recent, commercial sense of nation veers away from the word's earlier meanings. And it intersects in interesting ways with a related word that's also in the spotlight right now: nationalism.

  8. Word Count

     How to Develop the Writing Habit
    Wed Apr 10 00:00:00 EDT 2019
    Building any new habit can be challenging, but these ten steps will dramatically increase your chances of succeeding at creating a writing habit.

  9. Evasive Maneuvers

     Mephitic Weasels in the Garden House
    Fri Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2019
    Here are some of the latest and non-greatest lengths your fellow hairless apes have gone to not say what they mean.

  10. Language Lounge

     Unexpected Cousins
    Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019
    The relations among words are not so different from those among people. It's not unusual for, say, first cousins to bear no obvious resemblance to each other, but if we examine their DNA we find that they have a grandparent in common.
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