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Apr.27.2011
Top 10 Favorite British Words#1: Prat
Although Merriam-Webster is a dictionary of American English, it contains a range of words rarely heard outside Britain. Here are some of our favourites.
Definition:
a stupid or foolish person
Example:
"Everyone's feeling a bit summery this morning, with a...
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Apr.09.2011
Spring is greening the desert. Creosote bushes are growing, weeds are sprouting up, native grasses are taking hold, cactuses are coming alive. I marvel that so much comes from almost nothing. A bit of water, a bit of sandy soil, a bit of sun, and something exists where nothing did before. I cherish...
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Apr.06.2011
Morning time is a frenzy today. I am obsessed right now with continuing to unpack the books that I kept, the journals that still need sorting through. I get caught up, distracted—the progress becomes slow. I do this before work, rushing, knowing that I wanted to go in early, but that I won’t be an...
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Mar.31.2011
It’s about time that everyone learned their damn homophones. If you slept your way through the fourth grade or just skipped all of the grammar lectures because you were too busy sucking off that dude in the locker room, then maybe this table will help clear up some of the fucking confusion....
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Mar.23.2011
Reprinted from: http://nfaa.wordpress.com The video is in the original post...
Words are critically important for readers, writers, and publishers.
Words are the substance of knowledge, the means of communication, and one of the most mysterious fashionings of humans.
Publishers use words as...
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Mar.08.2011
Spring is greening the desert. Creosote bushes are growing, weeds are sprouting up, native grasses are taking hold, cactuses are coming alive. I marvel that so much comes from almost nothing. A bit of water, a bit of sandy soil, a bit of sun, and something exists where nothing did before. I cherish...
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Feb.28.2011
Perhaps this is why it is so difficult to translate words, stories, whole novels to another language. Beyond the slang, lingo or dialects of a particular language, there is, as described in the blog below so eloquently, sound itself, which might be sombre, delightful, airy, humorous, fantastical or...
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Feb.27.2011
Poetry is just words that echo
They echo-echo before and after being read-heard
In the fare-thee-well-how-art-thou old-fashioned sense
And the hey-man-what’s-up-‘friend’-me of today
And the emoticon-laden-SMS-tweet-driven of tomorrow
Within each departure of poem from poet
The echo-echo of loss (...
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Feb.16.2011
I just finished taking a look at two thrillers, both big, slick, well-touted works. Although they had interesting plots, there were so many point-of-view characters and so many incidents that the stories never seemed to go anywhere. I finally got tired of the words yip-yip-yipping at me and closed...
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Jan.30.2011
To the Heart of the matter Part II
In closing this issue, that we may proceed further, there is an issue, which many shall readily testify,
"These are indeed perilous times."
Like high - divers leaping from the diving board, we ogle and are wooed by the spectacle, yet little does...
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