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Word Routes
Don't Be Eristic, Be Lapidary!
Tue Aug 05 00:00:00 EDT 2008
A little while back we reported on a Los Angeles Times reader complaining about difficult vocabulary words like contretemps and phantasmagoria appearing in the newspaper. Other L.A. Times readers (and our own commenters) vehemently disagreed, saying that newspapers should shun the old maxim, " Don't use big words." The New York Times Magazine clearly does not have a "No Big Words" policy, since Sunday's edition featured an article with a favorite word of the late logophile William F. Buckley, Jr.: eristic.
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Blog Du Jour
The Twilight Saga
Tue Aug 05 00:00:00 EDT 2008
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Candlepower
Book Titles Made Easy: Nine Fast Formulas for Fame, Fortune, and a Good Night's Sleep
Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 EDT 2008
Writing a book is hard: just ask any author. But coming up with a title for your book? That's easy.
Honestly.
Oh, you've probably heard a different story, about how choosing a book title is the toughest part of the whole endeavor. But I'm going to share with you a six-word secret for skipping directly to a happy ending: Find a formula and copy it.
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Language Lounge
Not to be Counted On
Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2008
Every learner of a foreign language experiences a certain euphoria at the beginning, based (we believe) mainly on fantasies about what you'll be able to do when the studied tongue is mastered. After a short time, this feeling is often crushed — or at least, dealt a serious blow — by a collision with a wall.
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Word Routes
Twilighters vs. Twi-Hards
Thu Jul 31 00:00:00 EDT 2008
It's the biggest literary sensation since Harry Potter: Stephenie Meyer's
Twilight saga is coming to an end with the fourth and final installment in her best-selling series of vampire romance novels. Breaking Dawn goes on sale a minute after midnight on August 2, and bookstores across the country are holding Twilight parties for fans who want to buy the book as soon as it's available. The only question is: what to call this fervent fan base? Some want to be called twilighters and some prefer twi-hards. It's an indication of just how enthusiastic the fans are that this terminological issue has become a point of contention.
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Blog Excerpts
How We Read Online
Thu Jul 31 00:00:00 EDT 2008
Are online readers "selfish, lazy, and ruthless"? That's the theory of Web guru Jakob Nielsen. Slate's Michael Agger investigates.
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Behind the Dictionary
Inside the OED, Part 1: The Wisdom of Crowds
Wed Jul 30 00:00:00 EDT 2008
Ever wonder how work is done at the Oxford English Dictionary, the world's largest and most prestigious English-language dictionary project? We got the inside story from none other than Jesse Sheidlower, OED editor at large, who works on North American materials out of the dictionary's New York office. In the first installment of our three-part interview, Jesse explains how the OED's North American Reading Program operates. (Note the firmly American spelling of "Program"!) The reading programs (or programmes) have been radically transformed by the digital revolution, but at the same time they still follow the traditions set down 150 years ago by James Murray, the dictionary's first editor. As Jesse explains, the OED relied on "the wisdom of crowds" for the gathering of historical evidence long before the age of Wikipedia.
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Dog Eared
Collective Intelligence
Wed Jul 30 00:00:00 EDT 2008
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Blog Du Jour
Summer Reading Clubs
Tue Jul 29 00:00:00 EDT 2008
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Lesson Plans
Math Words with Multiple Meanings
Tue Jul 29 00:00:00 EDT 2008
How can the Visual Thesaurus help students better understand the language of mathematics?
In this lesson, small groups of students will use the Visual Thesaurus to explore the multiple meanings of some common math terms. Then, groups will synthesize this knowledge by coming up with examples of the words in both mathematical and other contexts.
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