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Behind the Dictionary
Gleanings from the Political Word Maven
Wed May 07 00:00:00 EDT 2008
William Safire is surely known to Visual Thesaurus readers as the man behind " On Language," the weekly New York Times Magazine column that he has penned continuously since 1979. From 1973 to 2005 he was also a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for the Times, taking on the persona of a "vituperative right-wing scandalmonger," in his own self-deprecating terms. But since retiring from the Op/Ed page, his "word maven" persona is now ascendant, particularly with the latest edition of Safire's Political Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2008), a book that Newsweek has hailed as "the definitive work on the subject."
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Blog Du Jour
The Translator's Art
Tue May 06 00:00:00 EDT 2008
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VT Tip o' the Week
Getting Help
Mon May 05 00:00:00 EDT 2008
To make learning about the Visual Thesaurus easier, it has a "context sensitive" help function. When you turn the help function on, you can roll your mouse over any area of the screen you would like to learn more about, and after a second or two, a "help tip" will appear that explains that function. To turn the help function on, press the "HELP" button on the toolbar. When the help function is on, the indicator on the right side of the "HELP" button will be next to "ON." To turn the help function off again, press the button again, returning the indicator to the "off" position.
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Announcements
Our Audio Pronunciations... And the Voices Behind Them
Mon May 05 00:00:00 EDT 2008
We're extremely proud to announce that the Visual Thesaurus now offers accurate, high-quality audio pronunciations for every single word in our database — all 150,000 of them! This was a mammoth undertaking, and the results are unequaled by any online resource, both in terms of quality and quantity. Want to know how to pronounce the names of delicacies like zabaglione or blancmange? How about head-scratchers like phthisis or caoutchouc? In the Visual Thesaurus application, just click on the speaker icon next to the word or phrase you've selected. Or you can right-click on any word shown in the map and select "Pronounce Word" from the pull-down menu. The default setting is for American English, but if you prefer to hear British English pronunciations, you can easily change your audio preference in the application's Advanced Settings.
Let's take a step behind the curtain to see who was responsible for creating these pronunciations. The ensemble cast may surprise you.
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Backstory
Arthur Rosenfeld, Author of "The Crocodile and the Crane"
Sat May 03 00:00:00 EDT 2008
As a devotee of Chinese martial arts and Chinese culture in general, I've been familiar with martial arts stories since the days of David Carradine's TV Show Kung Fu. What I didn't know until I began to read so-called martial arts stories in novel form is that most of the great literary works of China fit into this category, works ranging back a thousand years or more.
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Blog Excerpts
Haikuvies
Thu May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2008
What happens when you marry a haiku with a movie? Haikuvies has the answer!
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Language Lounge
The Stuff of Fiction
Thu May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2008
Does Art imitate Life? When the written word is involved it's not always easy to tell. This month in the Lounge, we examine the curious phenomenon of English word patterns that seem to occur mainly in fiction writing.
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Blog Du Jour
Literary Criticism
Wed Apr 30 00:00:00 EDT 2008
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Dog Eared
"Always Be Closing"
Tue Apr 29 00:00:00 EDT 2008
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VT Tip o' the Week
Context Sensitive Menus
Mon Apr 28 00:00:00 EDT 2008
If you right-click on a word or meaning in the Visual Thesaurus display (command-click on Macintosh computers), you will see a "pop-up" menu that shows the various actions that can be taken on that word. Not all actions will be available on every word and/or meaning.
Pronounce Word. Hear the word spoken out loud. (Requires an Internet connection)
Search Internet. Use your default web browser to search the Internet for web sites that are related to this word. (Requires an Internet connection and an Internet browser)
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