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  1. Language Lounge

     House Cleaning
    Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2005
    Words in the Visual Thesaurus occasionally come unglued from their bearings and wander, lost, into the Language Lounge, where the resident staff are always ready to provide whatever therapy is needed and guide the words back to where they belong. Recent casualties include throe, stealth, issue, and challenge.

  2. Language Lounge

     Whine Writing
    Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2005
    Our British visitor last month left a copy of the Financial Times in the Lounge. We were reading in it the other day and nearly choked on our soy-milk-softened Postum: "Wine writing in English has, over the past decade, become almost violently pragmatic." First of all, wine writing: you mean it's a genre? Second of all: violently pragmatic? Don't bet the chewy backbone in your delicately vegetal Cabernet Sauvignon on it.

  3. Language Lounge

     Food for Thought
    Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2005
    If you've been wondering what that archway in the north wall of the Language Lounge leads to, now's the time to find out. It's the Language Larder, and this month we're going to hang in there for a while, sampling the lexical delicacies available via the Visual Thesaurus.

  4. Announcements

     Email a Friend!
    Wed May 25 00:00:00 EDT 2005
    Now you can email your favorite word map to your friends. Read how in the Tips & Tricks section.

  5. Language Lounge

     Allegro Non Troppo, Buster
    Sun May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2005
    We're dusting off the piano in the Language Lounge this month and exploring the world of musical directions. No matter if your keyboard skills are not up to par: for this interlude the only keyboard you need to use is the QWERTY one connected to your computer, and the Visual Thesaurus.

  6. Language Lounge

     Pieces of April
    Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 2005
    Can a word's inner life be revealed by the company it keeps? We set off this month to find out just that, examining April through the prism of the Visual Thesaurus and some other word investigation tools we keep in that big sideboard over against the wall of the Language Lounge.

  7. Language Lounge

     Girls, Girls, Girls
    Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2005
    March is Women's History Month. In homage, we will clear a space on the davenport for all things female in the Language Lounge. English is a particularly apt place to study women's history, because it has fossilized many concepts and attitudes about women that are undergoing reappraisal today. Word associations in English reflect, to a very large degree, a historical rather than a contemporary take on woman; the Visual Thesaurus gives us a place to study these connections.

  8. Language Lounge

     Old Europe
    Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2005
    Monologue and soliloquy mean about the same thing but you wouldn't know it by looking at the words, and you might not even guess that they had anything to do with speech. It's all because English has always been a compulsive borrower. That's the topic we explore this month in the Language Lounge.

  9. Announcements

     Introducing the International Edition Beta Program
    premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers Mon Jan 24 00:00:00 EST 2005
    For a limited time, we're providing access to the beta version of the upcoming Visual Thesaurus International Edition free to all of our online subscribers.

  10. Announcements

     Introducing Group Subscriptions
    Thu Jan 20 00:00:00 EST 2005
    Small groups can now subscribe to the Visual Thesaurus and be billed automatically through one credit card.
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