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  1. Word Routes

     Rogues Gallery
    Fri Dec 16 00:00:00 EST 2016
    With the new Star Wars movie Rogue One opening today, it's a fitting moment to look at how the meaning of rogue has evolved over the years, from one who is deceitful and worthless to today's connotation of the charming scoundrel.

  2. Word Count

     Trying to Build a Writing Habit? Beware These 5 Traps.
    Mon Dec 12 00:00:00 EST 2016
    I work with dozens of people every year who are trying to build the writing habit. Some succeed quickly. Others take much longer. When would-be-writers flail and flop, I can usually trace the problem back to one of these five mistaken beliefs.

  3. Evasive Maneuvers

     Graphic Third-party Development Needs in a Post-truth World
    Wed Dec 07 00:00:00 EST 2016
    Development need. This is my new favorite/least favorite euphemism, and I spied it in some online discussions about writing. One student after another mentioned having "some strengths and development needs." Not strengths and weaknesses, nosireebob: strengths and development needs, by the green thumb of Yoda.

  4. Language Lounge

     Operating Systems for Life
    Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2016
    Default. Reboot. Now that we are devoting an ever-increasing share of our time and minds to the ways we interact with technology, words and meanings that designate aspects of interaction between humans and computers are now being used to characterize social and interpersonal interaction that is independent of technology.

  5. Candlepower

     Unreality Check
    Wed Nov 30 00:00:00 EST 2016
    By most reliable measures, 2016 has been a very good year for fiction lovers. I'm not talking here about literature; I'm talking about the opposite of fact. In mid-November, Oxford Dictionaries declared post-truth to be its word of the year. Indeed, it's been a banner year for all the words we have at our disposal to say, "Nope, it just ain't so."

  6. Dog Eared

     "The Word Detective" is a Revealing Look at the Life of an OED Gumshoe
    Mon Nov 28 21:55:00 EST 2016
    Thanks to numerous anecdotes about the old and new ways of the lexicography, I quite enjoyed The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of it All at the Oxford English Dictionary, the memoir of John Simpson, former Chief Editor. Simpson was a participant and prime mover in the huge changes to the OED, which saw the dictionary finally being produced, "from the computer database, not from copper plates." Because of the unique insights into the most important and impressive dictionary in English, this is a book any word lover should enjoy.

  7. Dog Eared

     "Enough Said" is a Powerful Look at the Sewer of Political Language
    Mon Nov 21 23:50:00 EST 2016
    As we look back at the language of the recent election, it's hard not to feel like political language has fallen into the sewer, and plummeted from there into a lower sewer, and might be still falling.

  8. Word Count

     Do You Suffer from Irritable Desk Syndrome?
    Mon Nov 21 00:00:00 EST 2016
    While it's true that Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and Mark Twain all had messy workplaces, it's also certain that clean, organized desks keep most people efficient and more productive. I know that I'm always more prolific, more creative and happier when my desk is tidy. Which isn't to say that I'm always able to keep it that way. Some days I fear I must be suffering from Irritable Desk Syndrome.

  9. Evasive Maneuvers

     An Oodle of Euphs from Green's Dictionary of Slang
    Mon Nov 14 00:00:00 EST 2016
    Every month I collect and inspect a plethora of sneaky terms from sources far and wide, to share a laugh over the human race's ludicrous attempts at lexical trickery. This month, the euphs are all coming from a single source I wish to celebrate: Green's Dictionary of Slang (GDoS).

  10. Word Count

     What a Circus Act Can Teach You About Writing
    Fri Nov 11 00:00:00 EST 2016
    Whether you're an acrobat or a writer, you can do only one thing at a time. And, like the acrobats who watch their eating and drinking habits before performances, writers who spend some time thinking about what they want to write — before writing — are going to be better prepared for the demands of the job.
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