My son and I were talking on the phone today, and I told him that I was working on a paper for class that I was struggling with. It is an academic assignment with no real room for creativity. The professor selected the title which did was also uninspiring. Anyway I told my son that [...]
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Avoir La Molle
Posted in vocab on February 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Unfriend
Posted in vocab on July 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Oxford University Press picked “unfriend”as 2009′s “word of the year” . . . Read all about Unfriend: Oxford\’s 2009 Word of the Year or Dictionary word of the year: \’unfriend\’ Oxford defines “unfriend,” a verb, thusly: “To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook.” The unfriend conversation also includes [...]
nEw WorDs
Posted in vocab on November 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some new words added to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary – 11th Edition. cardioprotective – serving to protect the heart fan fiction – stories involving popular fictional characters that are written by fans and often posted on the internet, called also fan fic flash mob – a group of people summoned (as by e-mail or text [...]
Higgledy Piggledy Cognition
Posted in community, my discoveries, vocab on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Have fun with that title! I found a new word combo that is fun. Look it up here in case you don’t know what it means. I made it easy, but it’s really more fun trying to type it in correctly. Anyway, here we go on this Tuesday morning. Personal diaries used to be [...]
Words
Posted in insights, vocab on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Words. You have to love them. What would we do without words? We would live in isolation from each other. Communication would consist of what? hand signals? which are words again – symbols with meaning or from www.dictionary.com “words are a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, [...]
Brilliant Minds
Posted in fun stuff, vocab on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Because we all want to make the most of our brilliant minds and in honor of the 1,000,000th word added to the English language on June 10th, 2009, I have selected a few words to increase our vocabulary prowess and maybe increase the cool and hip factor of those on the sidelines (more mature audience). Drum roll [...]
