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  1. Evasive Maneuvers

     The Mixed Culture of Highly Sensitive Hokum
    Thu Dec 07 00:01:00 EST 2017
    I'd give a kidney if there were no more euphemisms, but then I'd be out of a job, so let me rethink that. In the meantime, here are some euphemisms — all harvested fresh and ready to transplant into your interoffice memos and supersized tweets.

  2. Word Routes

     Octlantis: A Word and World With Many Tentacles
    Mon Dec 04 00:00:00 EST 2017
    The recent discovery of Octlantis, an undersea community of octopuses just off the eastern coast of Australia, is a reminder of how a novel blend can perfectly name a new phenomenon, no matter how wild or multi-tentacled.

  3. Language Lounge

     Just the Right Ingredients
    Fri Dec 01 14:00:00 EST 2017
    Apparently, one of the things that is making our Facebook feeds appetizing is a sauce—a combination of metrics mixed in exactly the right proportions to make this particular meal ever appealing.

  4. Word Count

     Do You Agree With These Quotes About Writing?
    Fri Nov 17 00:01:00 EST 2017
    Here's what boredom, blood and books have to do with great writing, according to great writers.

  5. Evasive Maneuvers

     Black and Orange Process Upsets in the Pause Pod
    Sun Nov 12 00:00:00 EST 2017
    A high percentage of that malarkey consists of euphemisms, which is why we could probably develop fusion energy by harnessing the grave-spinning of George Orwell.

  6. Candlepower

     Laughing Matters
    Sun Nov 05 00:01:00 EDT 2017
    Here we are in Branding Land, circa 2017, where disparaging modifiers are paired with positive words and attached to messages intended to persuade and sell.

  7. Language Lounge

     Blending In With the Natives
    Wed Nov 01 10:25:00 EDT 2017
    With the Halloween season now safely behind us for another year, I can bring to light a feature of it that has haunted me in recent weeks.

  8. Word Count

     Is Your Mind Messy Enough?
    Mon Oct 16 00:00:00 EDT 2017
    Toggling between two vastly different mindsets — being open-minded and being highly focused — is challenging and messy but it's the best way to become a creative, confident, productive writer.

  9. Dog Eared

     Write View
    Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2017
    These eight essays are a perfect way into learning about how a writer who started at the lowest rung at Time magazine in the 1950s developed to become the author associated with a body of nonfiction that is unparalleled in modern American letters for its breadth and depth.

  10. Evasive Maneuvers

     Urban Rain Forests and Other Benevolent Bunkum
    Wed Oct 04 00:00:00 EDT 2017
    Don't want to be known as a climate change denier? Call yourself a climate change agnostic. I can't deny that there's a metric tuchus-load of euphemisms out there, because the evidence is enough to overwhelm a drivel agnostic.
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