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Word I Just Learned: Dysphemism

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

James, intrigued by the aforementioned term and the phrase ‘the anesthetic of the familiar’, sent me a link to a short description of a talk by Steven Pinker. I was particularly intrigued by the word ‘dysphemism’, which apparently refers to the opposite of a euphemism. From Wikipedia:
In language, both dysphemism and cacophemism refer to the […]

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Your Connection Isn’t Good Enough

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Because I’m a bit slow on these things, I just learned (or possibly just remembered) that Stephen King’s Dark Tower books are being adapted to comic book form. Or, at least, a chunk of the first book is.
Can you order comics on Amazon? I’ve never done so.
I visited the Marvel Comics website associated with the […]

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Simple Web Apps I Use Every Week: Alphabetizer and Word Count

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Can we get a shout out for the little people? I recognized today that there are several ‘web apps’ (probably more accurately described as ‘web pages with bits that do stuff’ or maybe ‘web 1.9 apps’) that I use all the time, but never talk about. They’re extremely simple pages that do simple but useful […]

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Additional items in this category:
Henry Rollins on WalMart
Ingenuine Isn’t a Word?
Some Worrying Quotation Marks in Our Moving Estimate
My Favourite Monologue From Lord of War
28 Really Geeky Baby Names
New Word I Learned: Conurbation
Words That Sound Unlike Their Meaning

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