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Defenestrate
Wow! I’m totally impressed, the English language is such a beautiful thing. Thanks to the webcartoon Questionable Content number 36 I learned the word defenestrate. Merriam-Webster says: defenestration...
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Just Finished Reading “Eats, Shoots & Leaves” #books
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation is another book my mother gave me. It wasn’t a hint, she had received an extra copy and gave it to me. I thought the book was fun,...
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Locard’s MacGuffin Theory #television
TV is great, and I watch lots of it while playing on the computer, whether that’s researching a blog or real work. I love the workings of the mind and the workings of science. Which is why I like CSI,...
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New Word: “Calque”
Calque is my new word, I found it while writing a previous blog. “Calque or loan translation is the borrowing of a phrase from a foreign language by the literal translation of the original word or...
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A catalog of this year’s risky articles #2010
Risk is something which can be difficult to evaluate for the average person, there is a lot of work which goes in to learning not to do the two things that people usually do when they are confronted...
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