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Knoll (verb) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Knolling is the process of arranging like objects in parallel or 90 degree angles as a method of organization."

[Reminds me of "Things Organized Neatly": http://thingsorganizedneatly.tumblr.com/ ]
glengarryglenross  frankgehry  words  language  arrangement  ocd  tools  angles  parallels  rightangles  florenceknoll  tomsachs  via:litherland  knolling  organization  from delicious
yesterday by robertogreco
The Leonard Lopate Show: Video: Questions for Teju Cole - WNYC
"What are your favorite books/who are your favorite authors?

Poets inform my ear and my way of seeing the world. I read poetry much more than I read prose…"

"Do you have any writing rituals or habits? Where and when do you write?

I make notes all the time. There are little fragments of experience that somehow call out to me, and I make note of them: either something I’ve read in a book, or something I see on the subway, or a thought that occurs to me in the shower. And this archive of fragments after a while begins to show family resemblance, and could lead to a work, fictional or otherwise. Other than that, I have no particular rituals. I write longhand or on a computer, usually the latter, in the morning or late at night, usually the latter, in silence or with music, usually the latter."

"How does your photography inform you writing?

I try to see things from a different angle, in photography and in writing. Not novelty for its own sake but something that comes from an…"
noticing  patterns  patternrecognition  howwework  seamusheaney  derekwalcott  poetry  nyc  walking  experience  interviews  2012  notetaking  writing  opencity  cities  perspective  seeing  looking  photography  adjectives  words  tejucole  from delicious
20 days ago by robertogreco
world-weary, adj. : Oxford English Dictionary
Nothing new here, but the timing (that it pops up in my Pinboard network) is interesting:

"Weary of the world; feeling or indicating feelings of weariness, boredom, or cynicism as a result of long experience of life."
language  cv  words  via:preoccupations  weariness  boredom  cynicism  world-weariness 
february 2012 by robertogreco
Bedoun - Wikipedia
"Not to be confused with Bédoins, Bedouin, Beaudoin, or Beaudouin.

Bedoun (Arabic: بِدون ‎, sometimes bedoon, bidūn, bidoun) are stateless persons, from the Arabic bidūn jinsiyya (Arabic: بدون جنسية‎, without nationality).[1] The term is used mostly in Kuwait, where the large bedoun population has been a continuing problem,[2] and Bahrain. Although most of the bedoun are Bedouin, the two terms have different meanings."
people  words  kuwait  persian  arabic  statelessness  bidoun  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
Constant spoonerizing - Neven Mrgan's tumbl
"I spoonerize words all the time. All. The. Time. Good spoonerisms and bad. In my head. (I worderize spoons all the time. Tall. The Lime. Spoon Gooderisms band ad. Hin my ed.)…

I’ve only ever told a few people about it openly - not because it’s a big secret, but because it’s so… goofy and inconsequential. I know others have similar uncontrollable wordplay obsessions: constant punning, rhyming, anagrams, inverting words. Another minor thing I do is count the letters in a word and sort the consonants from the vowels, possibly as a pre-processing step for spoonerization.

This is a contagious brain-bug. Start doing it around someone and watch them pick it up. (I’m so sorry, Cabel. Oh also, dart stewing it surround omeone and pock whem ditch it up.)"
fun  words  language  classideas  tcsnmy  toshare  cv  play  wordplay  spoonerisms  nevenmrgan  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
Save The Words
language  words  wcydwt  classideas  english  writing  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
The Believer - Doubling in the Middle
"Barry Duncan is quite possibly the world's first master palindromist, and he refuses to cede control to the alphabet

DISCUSSED: Epic Struggles, The Distance Between Masters and Hacks, Palindromic Taxonomy, A Convenient Ampersand, Cutting-Edge Work in Reversibility, Some Limitations of an Untrained Audience, A Strange Kind of Amazing, The Relationship Killer, Disproportionate Responses, A Surfeit of Calendars, A Deficit of Wool and Illusions"
writing  language  barryduncan  words  literature  fun  taxonomy  reversability  2011  thebeliever  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
Urban Dictionary: Fhtagn
"Word which roughly translates to waits/dreams/sleeps in a long forgotten tongue."

[via: http://twitter.com/agpublic/status/101644269621747712 ]
fhtagn  cthulhu  hplovecraft  dreams  sleeping  sleep  waiting  dreaming  language  words  definitions 
august 2011 by robertogreco
prepone - Wiktionary
"1. (India) To reschedule to a time earlier than the current scheduled time."<br />
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[Also listed here (worth mining): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_English ]<br />
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[Related, also interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi_English and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinglish ]
prepone  words  india  english  indianenglish  language  definitions  time  meetings  scheduling  adelanto  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Nonce - Wikipedia
"Nonce may refer to:<br />
*Nonce, time being: the present occasion; "for the nonce"<br />
*Nonce word, a word used to meet a need that is not expected to recur<br />
*Cryptographic nonce, a number or bit string used only once, in security engineering<br />
*The Nonce, American rap duo<br />
*Nonce (slang), a sex offender<br />
*Nonce orders, an architectural term"
words  computers  cryptography  slang  time  language  temporary  temporality  nonce  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Design design design. by David Cole - Quora
"My friend Tag recently introduced me to the concept of a Buffalo sentence. The eponymous example is:<br />
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.<br />
It works because the word buffalo has three meanings: buffalo the animal, Buffalo the city, and buffalo the verb (a synonym for bully). Rewording clarifies:<br />
New York buffalo (that) New York buffalo bully (also) bully New York buffalo.<br />
This sort of ambiguity pops up in a lot of places, and it's pretty delightful…<br />
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Where it isn't delightful is in the design trade…We have three ways of understanding design:<br />
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Designers: design as a role within an organization.<br />
Designing: design as a process.<br />
Designs: design as a deliverable.<br />
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The confusion of any pair of these is destructive for both the designer and their organization."
design  language  buffalosentences  process  deliverables  words  davidcole  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Chrestomathy - Wikipedia
"Chrestomathy (Pronounced krɛsˈtɑːmʌθiː/kres-TA-muh-thee from the Greek words khrestos, useful, and mathein, to know) is a collection of choice literary passages, used especially as an aid in learning a foreign language.<br />
In philology or in the study of literature, it is a type of reader or anthology which presents a sequence of example texts, selected to demonstrate the development of language or literary style.<br />
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In computer programming, a program chrestomathy is a collection of similar programs written in various programming languages, for the purpose of demonstrating differences in syntax, semantics and idioms for each language. This term is thought[according to whom?] to have been first used by Eric S. Raymond in the Retrocomputing Museum web site. It is used by analogy to a linguistic chrestomathy."<br />
[Found in: http://www.ftrain.com/times-inverted-index.html]
learning  language  linguistics  words  chrestomathy  philology  programming  compsci  syntax  semantics  paulford  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Lebenskünstler « Lebenskünstler
"The word is “Lebenskünstler.” It is a German word and connotes a person who approaches life with the zest and inspiration of an artist, although he or she may not be working recognizably as an artist.<br />
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Lebensfreude = joy of living<br />
Lebenskunst = art of living<br />
Lebenskünstler = master of the art of living<br />
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* Lebenskünstler (“life artist”, someone who masters life in a somewhat eccentric way)<br />
* -meister (primarily satirical usage)<br />
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connoisseur of the art of living – Lebenskünstler {m}<br />
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Imagine making art, not with paint or clay, but with life itself as your medium. A “life artist,” or “Lebenskuenstler” as the Germans would say, is someone who finds beauty in the colors life puts at their disposal, someone who makes do with the brushes they’ve got and doesn’t pout over a few mistaken strokes."
randallszott  art  artofliving  life  german  language  words  definitions  lebenskünstler  joyofliving  living  well-being  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Adoxography - Wikipedia
"Adoxography is a term coined in the late 19th century, and means "fine writing on a trivial or base subject." It was a form of rhetorical exercise “in which the legitimate methods of the encomium are applied to persons or objects in themselves obviously unworthy of praise, as being trivial, ugly, useless, ridiculous, dangerous or vicious” — see Arthur S. Pease, ‘Things Without Honor’, Classical Philology Vol. XXI (1926) 27, at 28-9. Pease surveys this field from its origins with the defence of Helen ascribed to Gorgias, and cites De Quincey’s On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts and Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass as modern examples. Pease suggests that the skill was taught in ancient Greece, where the matters known to have been praised included gout, blindness, deafness, old age, negligence, adultery, flies, gnats, bedbugs, smoke, and dung."
writing  words  wikipedia  literature  definitions  arthurpease  lewiscarroll  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
The Daily What: Word Clouds of the Day
"Word Clouds of the Day: Crystal Smith @ The Achilles Effect (a site that examines how young boys’ understanding of masculinity affects their perception of femininity) culled a list of words from 59 toy spots directed at either boys or girls and plugged them into Wordle to produce a word cloud illustrating which words are used most often in ads targeting boys (top) versus words used most often in ads targeting girls.

“This is not an exhaustive record,” Smith says, “it’s really just a starting point, but the results certainly are interesting.”

A complete breakdown of the facts and figures can be found here. A follow-up post with responses to common questions and criticisms can be found here."
classideas  wordle  advertising  toys  gender  femininity  boys  girls  words  language  comparison  masculinity  perception  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Some Words Inside of Words - Magazine - The Atlantic
"The roc's a huge, bold, hungry bird who's ableTo eat an elephant. (So says the fable.)No farmer likes to see one feasting cockilyRight in the middle of his field of broccoli…"
poems  poetry  classideas  richardwilbur  words  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Zettelkasten – Wikipedia [See also: http://www.delicious.com/cervus/zettelkasten AND http://www.flickr.com/people/zettel/ AND http://zettelkasten.tumblr.com/]
"Der Zettelkasten ist ein Hilfsmittel bei der Erstellung einer literarischen oder wissenschaftlichen Arbeit. Wichtig erscheinende Sachverhalte, die man z. B. in einem Buch gefunden hat, werden mit Quellenangabe…"<br />
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Google translation: "The card catalog is a tool in creating a literary or scientific work. Appears important issues that we found in a book, for example, has to be the source is noted on slips of paper and kept in boxes and sorted."<br />
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By using a list box or a breakdown Editors will read information is not lost. The card catalog serves as a reminder. Card indexes are shown in the qualitative text analysis were used. <br />
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A major advantage of a card index with respect to a linear text, in the form of a notebook without references, is the networking of content by indexing and cross-reference is created. <br />
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Using electronic media can be obtained by linking with hyperlinks virtual card indexes to create, for example in the form of a wiki or a blog."
words  german  cardcatalog  notetaking  cv  process  howwework  hypertext  hyperlinks  del.icio.us  pinboard  wikis  blogs  cross-referencing  productivity  science  web  management  tools  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
10 Everyday Acts of Resistance That Changed the World by Steve Crawshaw and John Jackson — YES! Magazine
"The military junta that ruled Uruguay from 1973 was intolerant in the extreme. Hundreds of thousands fled into exile. Political opponents were jailed. Torture was a regular occurrence. On occasion, even concerts of classical music were seen as subversive threats.<br />
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But a remarkable small protest took place at soccer games throughout the twelve long years of military rule.<br />
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Whenever the band struck up the national anthem before major games, thousands of Uruguayans in the stadium joined in unenthusiastically. This stubborn failure to sing loudly was rebellion already. But, from the generals’ point of view, there was worse to come.<br />
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At one point, the anthem declares, Tiranos temblad!—“May tyrants tremble!” Those words served as the cue for the crowds in the stadium to suddenly bellow it in unison as they waved their flags. After that brief, excited roar, they continued to mumble their way through to the end of the long anthem…"
uruguay  via:steelemaley  1973  protest  democracy  freedom  resistance  ireland  us  poland  1982  1880  uk  1984  burma  1990s  liberia  2003  kenya  2009  denmark  1943  israel  2002  words  1993  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Deb Roy: The birth of a word | Video on TED.com
"MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn."
debroy  language  science  ted  languageacquisition  learning  infants  children  childhood  environment  visualization  video  mit  neuroscience  social  spacetimeworms  naturenurture  speech  words  memorymachines  memory  lifelogging  tracking  audio  recording  classideas  patternrecognition  patterns  vocabulary  media  television  tv  socialmedia  eventstucture  conversation  semanticanalysis  wordscapes  communication  communicationdynamics  engagement  data  socialgraph  contentgraph  coviewing  behavior  socialstructures  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 39, Jorge Luis Borges
Too much to choose, but here's one interesting bit: "Now as for the color yellow, there is a physical explanation of that. When I began to lose my sight, the last color I saw, or the last color, rather, that stood out, because of course now I know that your coat is not the same color as this table or of the woodwork behind you—the last color to stand out was yellow because it is the most vivid of colors. That's why you have the Yellow Cab Company in the United States. At first they thought of making the cars scarlet. Then somebody found out that at night or when there was a fog that yellow stood out in a more vivid way than scarlet. So you have yellow cabs because anybody can pick them out. Now when I began to lose my eyesight, when the world began to fade away from me, there was a time among my friends . . . well they made, they poked fun at me because I was always wearing yellow neckties. Then they thought I really liked yellow, although it really was too glaring."
borges  interview  literature  writing  fiction  parisreview  1966  film  language  books  numbers  religion  colors  words  languages  oldnorse  metaphor  georgeeliot  childhood  robertlouisstevenson  treasureisland  marktwain  tomsawyer  huckleberryfinn  milongas  adolfobioycásares  rudyardkipling  kafka  henryjames  waltwhitman  carlsandburg  tselliot  poetry  josephconrad  argentina  buenosaires  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
What is social information? « Snarkmarket
"Wallace has already signaled that this is going to be a paragraph about repetition to exhaustion or even injury before he even does it. You could say he needs to keep clarifying & repeating these things because his sentences are so convoluted that otherwise you couldn’t follow them, but 1) his syntax is pretty clear 2) it’s not like he’s a freak about specifying everything… But it’s also just Wallace — who understands all of this, by the way, better than we do: communication, information, redundancy, efficiency, purity, the dangers of too much information, and especially the fear of being alone and the need to find connection with other human beings — creating a structure that allows him to ping his reader, saying “I am here”… and waiting for his reader to respond in kind, “I’m alive right now; I’m a person; look at me.” 
timcarmody  snarkmarket  davidfosterwallace  infinitejest  language  solitude  loneliness  human  need  information  redundancy  efficiency  purity  clarity  communication  infooverload  connectedness  connection  freemandyson  malcolmgladwell  devinfriedman  ycombinator  dailybooth  expression  jamesgleick  history  congo  kele  languages  words  pinging  drums  2011  northafrica  revolution  revolutions  media  raymondcarver  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Dear EDUPUNK, | bavatuesdays
"…last straw has been your indecent exposure in the title of yet another book by Anya Kamanetz…<br />
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I mean, when did you stop dating journalists and start dating advocates for a mechanized vision of DIY education? You and I had deep institutional roots, and I am still proud to serve the public mission, why have you turned from this vision? I don’t know, EDUPUNK, I’m confused. I know I don’t own you, I know I have to let you go, but damn it….I loved you once! And I have a feeling your new lovers have moved away from any pretense of “reporting the state of education” and into the realm of advocating for a new corporate ed model. What’s more, I’m afraid they might continue to pimp out your good name—so be careful out there–it is a money hungry world. It might seem all fun and good right now, but just wait until they stick you in a cubicle and have you cold calling kids for that much needed education insurance they’ll need when corporations control the educational field."
jimgroom  edupunk  education  highereducation  highered  forprofit  anyakamenetz  unschooling  deschooling  words  meaning  definitions  money  billgates  gatesfoundation  khanacademy  salkhan  culture  edupreneurs  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Eastern Seaboard, West Coast (full episode) | A Way with Words
"Does sanction mean “a penalty” or “an approval”? Well, both. Martha explains the nature of contranyms, also known as Janus words. Here’s an article about them in the periodical Verbatim.

Listeners share their suggestions for the game What Would You Serve? Hosting a golfer for dinner? Tea and greens should be lovely!

William Faulkner used adjectives like shadowdabbled, Augusttremulous, and others that can only be described as, well, Faulknerian. Grant and Martha trade theories about why the great writer chose them.

The University of Virginia has an online audio archive of Faulkner, recorded during his tenure as that school’s Writer-in-Residence.

Also, check out this splendid 1956 Paris Review interview with Faulkner about the art of writing."
faulkner  writing  words  wordgames  games  play  waywithwords  contranyms  classideas  language  English  wordplay  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
See the Elephant (full episode) | A Way with Words
"A woman in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, remembers a ditty she learned from her mother about “thirty purple birds,” but with a distinctive pronunciation that sounds more like “Toidy poipel blackbirds / Sittin’ on a coibstone / Choipin’ and boipin’ / And eatin’ doity oithworms.” Here’s the Red Hot Chili Peppers version.<br />
Martha offers excellent writing advice from the former editor of People magazine, Landon Y. Jones…<br />
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Another Argentine idiom goes arrugaste como frenada de gusano. It means “You were scared,” but literally, it’s “You wrinkled like a stopping worm.”"
argentina  words  writing  rhymes  rhcp  thirtypurplebirds  tonguetwisters  pronunciation  english  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Modern Schools - Practical Theory
…does not assume that because we learned a certain way when we were kids that our children must learn the same. A modern school movement does not assume that what was good for us will automatically be good for them, nor does it assume that just because we did something a certain way in the past that it holds no value in the future…does not have to focus solely on tools or skills but rather on ideas and people and the lives we live today.<br />
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I want to create modern schools, in and of our time, for our time, for these kids."<br />
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[Don't agree with the word choice of 'modern'. 'Progressive' is better fit, but unfortunately brings misconceptions, preconceptions. 'Contemporary' may be the best option.]
chrislehmann  education  modernity  modern  words  schools  policy  tcsnmy  lcproject  teaching  learning  history  future  contemporary  progressive  2011  change  gamechanging  reform  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Museum - Wikipedia
"The English "museum" comes from the Latin word, and is pluralized as "museums" (or rarely, "musea"). It is originally from the Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseion), which denotes a place or temple dedicated to the Muses (the patron divinities in Greek mythology of the arts), and hence a building set apart for study and the arts, especially the Musaeum (institute) for philosophy and research at Alexandria by Ptolemy I Soter about 280 BCE. The first museum/library is considered to be the one of Plato in Athens. However, Pausanias gives another place called "Museum", namely a small hill in Classical Athens opposite the Akropolis. The hill was called Mouseion after Mousaious, a man who used to sing on the hill and died there of old age and was subsequently buried there as well."
etymology  words  english  history  museums  muses  art  arts  philosophy  ancientgreece  ancientgreeks  latin  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
How Design Can Get Kids On the Path to Tech Careers | Co.Design
"whenever you say the word 'school,' it conjures up mental images & models of our experiences and behavior in a place -- & accompanying that 'place model' is a kaleidoscope of memories & emotions about how that place looked & worked -- how we felt in it, what was rewarded, celebrated & expected, & who we were supposed to be as learners in that place. Unfortunately, many of these mental models of how we should learn in school are completely at odds w/ how real learning happens & how it's demonstrated in the real world. False proxies for learning often erode our children's vibrant intellectual & creative potentials because they diminish the excitement of real learning & discovery. Everyone knows that finishing a course and a textbook does not mean achievement. Listening to a lecture does not mean understanding. Getting a high score on a high-stakes standardized test does not mean proficiency. Credentialing does not mean competency. Our children know it, too, yet it persists."
education  design  management  designthinking  learning  unschooling  discovery  deschooling  trungle  stephaniepacemarshall  imsa  illinois  chicago  science  math  gifted  talented  schools  schooldesign  credentials  credentialing  whatmatters  cv  ap  collaboration  teaching  challenge  interaction  interdisciplinary  multidisciplinary  crossdisciplinary  problemsolving  criticalthinking  teacherasmasterlearner  teacherascollaborator  inquiry  inquiry-basedlearning  studentdirected  research  names  naming  language  words  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
YouTube - The KidDictionary V2 :More Words Parents Need To Describe Their Kids -- www.TheKidDictionary.com
"If youre a parent or a teacher or someone whos ever around kids or someone who used to be a kid, then youre likely well aware that a kids primary mission is to complicate the lives of grownups. One way they achieve this mission is to exhibit traits and behaviors that there are no words to describe. The KidDictionary seeks to supplement your vocabulary with brand new humorous words to help you describe your humorous kids. Watch the video looking inside The KidDictionary and youre on your way to being better able to talk about your children. Talking TO your children remains a challenge were yet to figure out. Enjoy!"
neologisms  parenting  humor  words  dictionary  classideas  via:rushtheiceberg  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Anosognosia - Wikipedia [via: http://readingbyeugene.com/2010/12/23/the-top-five-long-reads-of-2010/]
"Anosognosia is a condition in which a person who suffers disability seems unaware of the existence of his or her disability. Unlike denial, which is a defense mechanism, Anasognosia is rooted in physiology (for example, damage to the frontal or parietal lobe due to illness and disease). This may include unawareness of quite dramatic impairments, such as blindness or paralysis. It was first named by neurologist Joseph Babinski in 1914,[1] although relatively little has been discovered about the cause of the condition since its initial identification. The word comes from the Greek words "nosos" disease and "gnosis" knowledge (an- / a- is a negative prefix)."
psychology  neuroscience  health  science  brain  words  classideas  toshare  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Liz Danzico - Adding By Leaving Out: The Power of the Pause on Vimeo
"We tend to think of the pause as awkward. In speech, pauses connote uncomfortable silence, an issue at hand, and as communicators, we smooth over silence with fillers. We’re trained to deliver smooth speech, censoring “um” and “ah” out. As designers, as much as we value whitespace, we tend to fill it. This distaste for the pause — and the inverse seeking an always-on state — is a daily battle we face. We’re impatient with the pause, and as a result, we’re missing out on a great deal. What would happen if we become more comfortable with the pause? As it turns out, we can add by leaving out. From Edison to Underhill to web-based software, learn where the pause has power." [Something very brief that I wrote about pause a few months before: http://robertogreco.tumblr.com/post/626105538/hustle-works-best-when-paired-with-pause-time]
lizdanzico  pause  slow  slowness  design  webdesign  words  comments  collections  whitespace  impatience  patience  behavior  smoothness  wabi-sabi  fluency  speech  speaking  communication  understanding  thomasedison  toshare  classdieas  jonathansafranfoer  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Google Labs - Books Ngram Viewer
google  books  statistics  tools  visualization  wcydwt  classideas  history  language  words  comparison  googlebooks  charts  graphs  ngramviewer  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words from Around the World [via: http://caterina.net/wp-archives/39]
"1. Toska [Russian]: At deepest & most painful…sensation of great spiritual anguish, often w/out any specific cause. At less morbid levels…dull ache of soul, longing w/ nothing to long for…<br />
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2. Mamihlapinatapei [Yagan (indigenous to Tierra del Fuego]: wordless, yet meaningful look shared by two people who both desire to initiate something but are both reluctant to start<br />
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3. Jayus <br />
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4. Iktsuarpok [Inuit]: “To go outside to check if anyone is coming.” <br />
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5. Litost 6. Kyoikumama 7. Tartle 8. Ilunga 9. Prozvonit 10. Cafuné 11. Schadenfreude <br />
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12. Torschlusspanik [German]: means “gate-closing panic,” but…refers to “the fear of diminishing opportunities as one ages."<br />
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13. Wabi-Sabi 14. Dépaysement <br />
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15. Tingo [Pasquense]: “act of taking objects one desires from house of a friend by gradually borrowing all of them.”<br />
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16. Hyggelig 17. L'appel du vide 18. Ya'aburnee <br />
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19. Duende: “the mysterious power that a work of art has to deeply move a person.”<br />
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20. Saudade"
language  translation  culture  linguistics  words  hyggelig  duende  saudade  tingo  wabi-sabi  schadenfreude  Mamihlapinatapei  toska  litost  tartle  cafuné  portugués  portuguese  español  spanish  russian  german  french  danish  arabic  time  age  precision  art  glvo  scottish  japanese  czech  inuit  yagan  milankundera  vladmirnavakov  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Haberdasher - Wikipedia [New word… to me. Probably because I have little interest in clothes shopping (American variation). But I do like the first meaning]
"A haberdasher is a person who sells small articles for sewing, such as buttons, ribbons, zippers, and other notions. In American English, haberdasher is another term for a men's outfitter. A haberdasher's shop or the items sold therein are called haberdashery."
words  english  vocabulary  sewing  glvo  ribbons  zippers  buttons  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Frank Chimero — A Love of Words
"People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear." —Beatrice Warde
ideas  words  beatricewarde  frankchimero  writing  communication  expression  sharing  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Castizo - Wikipedia
"Castizo (Spanish pronunciation: [kasˈtiθo]) is a Spanish word with a general meaning of "pure" or "genuine". The feminine form is castiza. From this meaning it evolved other meanings, such as "typical of an area"[1] and it was also used for one of the colonial Spanish race categories, the castas, that evolved in the seventeenth century.

Under the caste system of colonial Latin America, the term originally applied to the children resulting from the union of a European and a mestizo, that is, someone of three quarters European and one quarter Amerindian ancestry. During this era a myriad of other terms (mestizo, cuarterón de indio, etc.) were in use to denote other individuals of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry in ratios smaller or greater than that of castizos."
chile  ethnicity  demographics  language  words  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Urban Dictionary: chulajuana
portmanteau  chulavista  chulajuana  tijuana  sandiego  words  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Portmanteau - Wikipedia [bookmark points to the Japanese section, but also see the "Portmanteau word/morph (linguistics)" section]
"There are many examples of borrowed word blends in Japanese. The word パソコン (pasokon?), meaning PC, as in personal computer, is not officially an English loan word. The word does not exist in English; however, it is a uniquely Japanese contraction of the English personal computer (パーソナル・コンピュータ, pāsonaru konpyūta?). Another example, Pokémon (ポケモン?), is a contracted form of the English words pocket (ポケット, poketto?) and monsters (モンスター, monsutā?).<br />
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Sometimes Japanese and English words are blended together. One very famous example, karaoke (カラオケ, karaoke?), is the blend of the Japanese word for empty (空っぽ, karappo?) and the English word orchestra (オーケストラ, ōkesutora?)."
japanese  words  language  portmanteau  classideas  wordplay  japan  pokemon  karaoke  linguistics  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
OK: How Two Letters Made 'America's Greatest Word' : NPR
"OK, it's quiz time: You probably say it dozens of times every day. It may be the most widely used expression in the world. And yet it's so simple.<br />
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OK, ready for the answer?<br />
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That's it — the word "OK."<br />
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Allan Metcalf is so enthralled by those two letters that he's written an entire book about them: OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word.<br />
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Metcalf tells NPR's Guy Raz that he sifted through a handful of conflicting stories and discovered the birthplace of "OK" — a 19th century Boston newsroom."
language  us  english  international  ok  words  history  humor  books  linguistics  acronyms  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Lacunas - Bobulate
"Frank Bures compares words in other languages to icebergs: [quote]. <br />
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Not everyone feels this way: [another quote]. <br />
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Alex Ross points out that John Cage once defined music as “the art of listening to other people,” and there’s no better way to be. Language has always felt like that to me: when you’re listening to an unfamiliar language, there’s an art to it that isolates the absolutely concrete sounds so they emerge as essential. Like squinting at a piece of art. Or taking a piece through a crushing editorial process. Each has ways of closing up the lacunas."
lizdanzico  language  words  communication  simpleenglish  listening  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
New Year’s Resolutions : 2¢ Worth [via: http://santafelead.org/2010/11/never-mind-the-toys/]
"1. I will accept that I may no longer be a believer—Over the years, I have been gradually, & not w/out resistance, losing my faith. I am afraid that I may no longer believe in education. There is no problem w/ education. Education is the problem. Our goal is preparing our children for their future, & I am becoming convinced that education—our belief in education—is preventing us from accomplishing that goal.<br />
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2. I will avoid, at all (most) costs, using the following words: education, student, technology, teach, teacher<br />
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3. I will try, at all costs, to speak plaining & to clearly paint pictures for what I am striving to convey. If we agree that “it takes a village to teach a child,” then we need to be speaking in villagese, not schoolese.<br />
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4. I will more aggressively & compellingly speak out against standardized testing & to direct conversations twrd alternatives…standardized, high-stakes testing has done far more harm to more children than all the social networks on planet."
davidwarlick  change  education  learning  schooling  schooliness  teaching  pedagogy  edtech  teminology  jargon  standardizedtesting  highstakes  testing  unschooling  deschooling  gamechanging  words  resolutions  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
The Best Language Tools for Geeks
"No matter your command of the English language, we all have trouble defining, pronouncing, or even remembering certain words, which makes writing tough. Here are some of the best tools to help you out.<br />
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We talked about online language tools for nerds a couple years ago, and today we're revisiting it with newer and better options. This list isn't exhaustive, but it's some of our favorite tools we've found—and even make use of on a daily basis—to help in our writing."
dictionary  language  lifehacker  reference  classideas  english  vocabulary  tools  research  wolframalpha  search  definitions  wordsearch  pronunciation  phrases  spelling  grammar  thesaurus  dictionaries  definition  words  via:robinsloan  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
The taxonomy of the invisible - Bobulate
"Peter del Tredici, a senior research scientist at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and lecturer in landscape architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, argues the wildlife that surrounds us every day often has an “image problem:” it goes unnoticed, unattended, and unvalued. “There is no denying the fact that many — if not most — of the plants … suffer from image problems associated with the label ‘weeds,’ or, to use a more recent term, ‘invasive species.’ From the plant’s perspective, ‘invasiveness’ is just another word for successful reproduction — the ultimate goal of all organisms, including humans…. The term is a value judgment that humans apply to plants we do not like, not a biological characteristic.”"
iphone  applications  location  lizdanzico  weeds  plants  invasivespecies  nature  naturedeficitdisorder  urban  urbanism  childhood  chores  memories  nostalgia  noticing  danhill  cityofsound  trees  treesny  nyc  life  systems  biology  glvo  srg  edg  humans  perspective  language  words  taxonomy  wildlife  cities  value  organisms  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
On Language - Creeper! Rando! Sketchball! - NYTimes.com
"Rando is one of a surprisingly large number of words that U.N.C. students use to refer to unfamiliar, suspicious or anxiety-producing outsiders. Skimming the lists that Eble has collected from recent classes, I kept spotting a familiar pattern: along with rando, there are nouns like creeper, sketcher and sketchball and adjectives like dubious, grimy, sketchy, sketch and skeazy. Sketchy and sketch have, in fact, been among the most frequently attested words culled from Eble’s students for the past several semesters."
language  online  slang  privacy  safety  facebook  words  tcsnmy  toshare  classideas  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Pleonasm - Wikipedia
"use of more words or word-parts than is necessary for clear expression: examples…black darkness, burning fire, digital download or redundant pleonasm. Such redundancy is, by traditional rhetorical criteria, a manifestation of tautology. The term "tautology" is derived from 2 Greek words meaning It says this, i.e. the same thing.<br />
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Often, pleonasm is understood to mean a word or phrase which is useless, clichéd, or repetitive, but a pleonasm can also be simply an unremarkable use of idiom. It can even aid in achieving a specific linguistic effect, be it social, poetic, or literary. In particular, pleonasm sometimes serves same function as rhetorical repetition—it can be used to reinforce an idea, contention or question, rendering writing clearer & easier to understand. Further, pleonasm can serve as a redundancy check: If a word is unknown, misunderstood, or misheard, or the medium of communication is poor, pleonastic phrases can help ensure that the entire meaning gets across"
english  grammar  language  linguistics  words  semantics  pleonasm  writing  via:thelibrarianedge  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Synecdoche - Wikipedia
"Synecdoche (pronounced /sɪˈnɛkdəkiː/; from Greek synekdoche (συνεκδοχή), meaning "simultaneous understanding") is a figure of speech[1] in which a term is used in one of the following ways:<br />
*Part of something is used to refer to the whole thing (Pars pro toto), or<br />
*A thing (a "whole") is used to refer to part of it (Totum pro parte), or<br />
*A specific class of thing is used to refer to a larger, more general class, or<br />
*A general class of thing is used to refer to a smaller, more specific class, or<br />
*A material is used to refer to an object composed of that material, or<br />
*A container is used to refer to its contents."
synecdoche  metaphor  grammar  linguistics  literature  words  writing  philosophy  metonymy  language  communication  definitions  english  relationships  containers  rhetoric  device  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
A family resemblance of obsessions « Snarkmarket
"Blogs — the best blogs — are public diaries of preoccupations. The reason why they are preoccupations is that you need someone who is continually pushing on the language to regenerate itself. The reason why they are public is so that those generations and regenerations and degenerations can find their kin, across space, across fame, across the likelihood of a connection, and even across time itself, to be rejoined and reclustered together. <br />
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Because that is how language and language-users are reborn; that is how the system, both artificial and natural, loops backward upon and maintains itself; because that is how a public and republic are made, how a man can be a media cyborg, and also become a city. That’s how this place where we gather becomes home."
timcarmody  language  blogs  blogging  definitions  cyborgs  regenerations  degenerations  connections  neologisms  words  time  etymology  ego  cv  obsessions  obsession  snarkmarket  robinsloan  timmaly  family-resemblance  ludwigwittgenstein  meaning  conversation  gamechanging  perspective  learning  understanding  misunderstanding  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
komorebi | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
"The light was coming through the trees just perfectly today!<br />
It's called "komorebi" in Japanese.<br />
You know, when the sun kind of pokes through the little spaces between the swaying leaves and reflects and glitters and...."
komorebi  japan  japanese  words  light  leaves  sun  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Mamihlapinatapai - Wikipedia [via: http://blog.javierarce.com/post/1184610204/mamihlapinatapai]
"Mamihlapinatapai (sometimes misspelled mamihlapinatapei) is a word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the "most succinct word", and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It describes a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start. This could perhaps be translated more succinctly as "eye-contact implying 'after you...'". A more literal approximation is "ending up mutually at a loss as to what to do about each other"."
words  meaning  translation  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
On Language - Learning Language in Chunks - NYTimes.com
"In recent decades, the study of language acquisition and instruction has increasingly focused on “chunking”: how children learn language not so much on a word-by-word basis but in larger “lexical chunks” or meaningful strings of words that are committed to memory. Chunks may consist of fixed idioms or conventional speech routines, but they can also simply be combinations of words that appear together frequently, in patterns that are known as “collocations.” In the 1960s, the linguist Michael Halliday pointed out that we tend to talk of “strong tea” instead of “powerful tea,” even though the phrases make equal sense. Rain, on the other hand, is much more likely to be described as “heavy” than “strong.”"
language  learning  children  chinking  phrases  words  vocabulary  wordselection  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Gargantua/Chapter XXV - Wikisource {Follow-up to: http://www.waywordradio.org/spendthrift-snollygosters/]
"did injure them most outrageously, calling them prattling gabblers, lickorous gluttons, freckled bittors, mangy rascals, shite-a-bed scoundrels, drunken roysters, sly knaves, drowsy loiterers, slapsauce fellows, slabberdegullion druggels, lubberly louts, cozening foxes, ruffian rogues, paltry customers, sycophant-varlets, drawlatch hoydens, flouting milksops, jeering companions, staring clowns, forlorn snakes, ninny lobcocks, scurvy sneaksbies, fondling fops, base loons, saucy coxcombs, idle lusks, scoffing braggarts, noddy meacocks, blockish grutnols, doddipol-joltheads, jobbernol goosecaps, foolish loggerheads, flutch calf-lollies, grouthead gnat-snappers, lob-dotterels, gaping changelings, codshead loobies, woodcock slangams, ninny-hammer flycatchers, noddypeak simpletons, turdy gut, shitten shepherds, and other suchlike defamatory epithets"
insults  language  english  gargantua  literature  words  classideas  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
snollygoster - Wiktionary [Follow-up to: http://www.waywordradio.org/spendthrift-snollygosters/]
"19th century American English. Possibly from snallygaster, a mythical beast that preys on poultry and children < possibly from Pennsylvania Dutch schnelle geeschter < German snēl, quick + geist, spirit." [More at: http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-sno1.htm]
words  monsters  children  poultry  myth  myths  pennsylvaniadutch  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Stevedore - Wikipedia [Follow-up to: http://www.waywordradio.org/spendthrift-snollygosters/]
"Stevedore, dockworker, docker, dock labourer and longshoreman can have various waterfront-related meanings concerning loading and unloading ships, according to place and country.<br />
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The word stevedore originated in Portugal or Spain, and entered the English language through its use by sailors. It started as a phonetic spelling of estivador (Portuguese) or estibador (Spanish), meaning a man who stuffs, here in the sense of a man who loads ships, which was the original meaning of stevedore; compare Latin stīpāre meaning to stuff, as in to fill with stuffing. … Stevedore has also become common as an appellation for a person who is over-muscular or foulmouthed."
stevedore  etymology  words  dockworkers  longshoremen  spanish  portuguese  estibador  estivador  packing  loading  foulmouthed  over-musculat  language  english  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
CamelCase - Wikipedia [Follow-up to: http://www.waywordradio.org/spendthrift-snollygosters/]
"Cartoon illustration of "camel case" (medial capitals) style<br />
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CamelCase (camel case or camel-case)—originally known as medial capitals[1]—is the practice of writing compound words or phrases in which the elements are joined without spaces, with each element's initial letter capitalized within the compound, and the first letter is either upper or lower case—as in "LaBelle", BackColor, "McDonald's", or "iPod". The name comes from the uppercase "bumps" in the middle of the compound word, suggestive of the humps of a camel. The practice is known by many other names. In computer programming if the first letter is capitalized, it is called Pascal case; if not, then camel case."
camelcase  capitalization  programming  coding  computers  english  culture  words  writing  language  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
To speak another language isn't just cultured, it's a blow against stupidity | Michael Hofmann | Comment is free | The Observer
"A leading translator argues that if we rely solely on English we'll lose the curiosity that drove Milton and Orwell"
michaelhofman  language  languages  english  history  words  learning  education  perspective  georgeorwell  stupidity  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
WNYC - Radiolab » Words [Seems like some of this research might be reason to delay direct reading instructiont for older ages in US schools.]
"It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words. But in this hour of Radiolab, we try to do just that. We speak to a woman who taught a 27-year-old man the first words of his life, and we hear a firsthand account of what it feels like to have the language center of your brain wiped out by a stroke. Plus: a group of children invent an entirely new language in Nicaragua in the 1970s." [Accompanying video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0HfwkArpvU]
radiolab  2010  language  words  thinking  children  brain  neuroscience  shakespeare  thought  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
About Flow: Doors of Perception 7 on Flow
"But an equally important use of information is much more vague. It’s why we read newspapers every day, exchange idle gossip or attend conferences. It’s why we suffer an education. We’re not seeking a specific piece of information. We’re accumulating a semi-random collection of data, ideas and gut feelings which have no immediate or apparent use.

We build up this semi-random cloud of mental stuff to equip ourselves with a continually updated ‘feel’ for events—so that, when in the hazy future a need or opportunity arises, facts and intuitions will hopefully fuse into patterns that allow us to take actions appropriate to their context. We also hope that, while wandering and wondering in this space, we might stumble across valuable facts or ideas which, had we sought them, might not have been found. Let’s call this imaginary cloud ‘a space for half-formed thoughts’."

[via: http://plsj.tumblr.com/post/938736809/a-space-for-half-formed-thoughts]
creativity  cyberculture  cyberspace  media  technology  theory  flow  williamgibson  sensemaking  patterns  patternrecognition  information  memory  generalists  crosspollination  crossdisciplinary  interdisciplinary  multidisciplinary  alberteinstein  philliptabor  2002  half-formedthoughts  thinking  knowledge  data  retrieval  context  words  logic  play  expression  understanding  invention  design  psychology  imagination  space  substance  robertomatta  matta-clark  spacial  vagueness  fluidity  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Sticking the world together with words | Tim Parks | Books | guardian.co.uk [via: http://plsj.tumblr.com/post/833198983/sticking-the-world-together-with-words]
"what if language & literature were as much a part of the problem as the solution? Consider. Invented, not part of nature, words are thrust upon us the moment we emerge from the womb. Heads stuffed with them, we start to imitate. The right sounds in the right sequences get us what we want. Soon these patterns of sound seem as natural as breathing. For stream of consciousness, read stream of words…<br />
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Predictably, society prefers writers who don't meddle with the word sequences we all know and on which our identities depend, who treat syntax & grammar as if they were natural & inevitable, as if from birth the brain was made up of words, English words.…<br />
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Foreign languages are unsettling. They remind us how arbitrary the mental world we live in is. Silence is worse. When we try to imagine consciousness without words, when we think of a day, even an hour, without any words in the head, we are overcome by a kind of vertigo. As when we think of death…"
timparks  words  conciousness  classideas  language  english  languages  culture  humanity  storytelling  literature  knowledge  stories  power  books  wisdom  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
lukeneff's flipforlessonplans Bookmarks on Delicious
Another great stream of classroom material courtesy Luke Neff
lukeneff  classideas  english  writing  reading  literature  language  teaching  tcsnmy  words 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Quisby - Semantic Satiation [See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation]
""Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a cognitive neuroscience phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who can only process the speech as repeated meaningless sounds."
repetition  meaning  speech  words  listening  semanticsatiation  semanticsaturation  neuroscience  sounds  definitions 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Evolution or Revolution... or something else - Practical Theory
"perhaps we don't have word we need. Because even "evolution" suggests natural progression, & that's not what I'm calling for. I want to see us change, grow, evolve, so that all kids can have schools they need. But I also want adults to be smart & wise & kind in desire & quest for that change. I want them to be respectful & understanding of how difficult that change is. I want them to celebrate the incremental changes those around them make while never stopping to work for greater change. & I want the (r)evolution to be done in a way so that it doesn't require proverbial bloodshed, & I want it done in a way that does take the best of what we have been, the best of what we are... & marries to the the potential of what we can be.
chrislehmann  change  revolution  evolution  schools  policy  education  us  words  definitions  respect  tcsnmy  2010  comments 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Popular collective nouns on All Sorts
via: http://kottke.org/10/06/collective-nouns-illustrated
collective  wordplay  words  english  lists  language  humor  collectivenouns 
june 2010 by robertogreco
Skeuomorph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"A skeuomorph or skeuomorphism is a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to structure that was necessary in the original.[1] Skeuomorphs may be deliberately employed to make the new look comfortably old and familiar,[2] such as copper cladding on zinc pennies or computer printed postage with circular town name and cancellation lines. The word derives from Greek, skeuos for 'vessel' or 'tool' and morphe for 'shape'."
archaeology  architecture  skeuomorph  redundancy  anachronism  language  illusion  history  art  design  fabrication  ux  words 
june 2010 by robertogreco
‘So’ Pushes to the Head of the Line « Anand Giridharadas [via: http://www.clusterflock.org/2010/06/meet-the-flockers-luke-neff.html]
"So, it is widely believed that the recent ascen­dancy of “so” began in Sil­i­con Val­ley. The jour­nal­ist Michael Lewis picked it up when research­ing his 1999 book “The New New Thing”: “When a com­puter pro­gram­mer answers a ques­tion,” he wrote, “he often begins with the word ‘so.”’ Microsoft employ­ees have long argued that the “so” boom began with them.
so  via:lukeneff  culture  english  semantics  slang  language  psychology  meaning  linguistics  journalism  writing  words  speech 
june 2010 by robertogreco
On words alone - Bobulate
"Writing more than anything else is a way of clarifying one’s thoughts; the initial act is not for the reader" [Sounds like something I wrote here a while back: http://snarkmarket.com/blog/snarkives/media_galaxy/stumbling_away_from_the_story/#066170]
working  writing  design  culture  art  glvo  creation  creativity  cv  thought  tcsnmy  words  clarity 
june 2010 by robertogreco
greg.org: the making of: If You See Something, Say Something
"Do you find yourself wanting to talk about Group Zero, but the only names you can pronounce are Fontana and Klein [and Westwater]? Do you ever call galleries you're about to walk into, just to hear them say the artist's name? [I just asked at the desk, it's von HILE.]
art  artists  humor  names  pronunciation  reference  words  naming 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Oxford Tradition Comes to This - ‘Death’ (Expound) - NYTimes.com [via: everywhere]
"The exam was simple yet devilish, consisting of a single noun (“water,” for instance, or “bias”) that applicants had three hours somehow to spin into a coherent essay. An admissions requirement for All Souls College here, it was meant to test intellectual agility, but sometimes seemed to test only the ability to sound brilliant while saying not much of anything.
education  essays  writing  words  classideas  philosophy  tradition  oxford  tcsnmy 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Polysyndeton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Polysyndeton is the use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in "he ran and jumped and laughed for joy"). It is a stylistic scheme used to achieve a variety of effects: it can increase the rhythm of prose, speed or slow its pace, convey solemnity or even ecstasy and childlike exuberance. In grammar, a polysyndetic coordination is a coordination in which all conjuncts are linked by coordinating conjunctions (usually and, but, or, nor in English)."
english  grammar  habits  words  writing  cv  via:russelldavies  repetition  conjunctions  style 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Ditch that Word
"I've been doing a new blog called Ditch that Word. So, if you are a language geek or you just want an insight into my own strange inner-monologues, feel free to check it out. Here's the premise: Instead of a Word-a-Day blog (which are admittedly cool), I'm thinking of condensing my language - or at least thinking better about how I use it in different contexts.
language  words  brilliantidea  everydayspeech  personalimprovement  needtodosomethinglikethis  behavior  communication  accuracy  honesty  humor  buzzwords  excusemaking  euphemisms 
may 2010 by robertogreco
In Which We Request A Do-Over On This Last Decade - Home - This Recording [some nice lines in here]
"For the longest time I pretended the pleasure of everything wasn't in its anticipation. Enjoying things became passé, remembering the past fondly was easier on the heart. ... There should be a term - there probably is a term - for nostalgia for something that hasn't happened yet. ... In the 00s I tried to like people I wouldn't normally have liked. More and more, people were vastly different from their appearance, a development I attributed to adults rather than children being my peers. When I met someone I cared about, I usually informed them of this directly. In a similar case I took up an indirect approach that met with better results. Then I switched back again. After a fashion, I surmised that it was the world that was changing, not me. ... Meeting people unhappier than you are is Darwin's mood corrective. There is always someone who has it worse and is still paying for it." [via: http://tumble77.com/post/543062841/i-know-what-you-mean]
nostalgia  words  wordsneededinenglish  wordsthatshouldbe  memory  maturation  anticipation  pleasure  00s  culture 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Idioglossia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Idioglossia refers to an idiosyncratic language, one invented and spoken by only one or a very few people. Most often, idioglossia refers to the "private languages" of young children, especially twins. It is also known as cryptophasia, and commonly referred to as twin talk or twin speech.
idioglossia  language  twins  communication  childen  cryptophasia  definitions  words 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Capicúa - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
"La palabra capicúa (en matemáticas, número palíndromo) se refiere a cualquier número que se lee igual de izquierda a derecha y de derecha a izquierda (Ejemplos: 212, 7.540.550.457). El término se origina en la expresión catalana cap i cua (cabeza y cola)."
palindromes  numbers  math  mathematics  español  definitions  words  spanish 
april 2010 by robertogreco
The words David Foster Wallace circled in his dictionary. - - Slate Magazine
"Below you'll find the complete list of words that David Foster Wallace circled in his American Heritage Dictionary. Many thanks to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas-Austin for providing us with the list. (To learn more about the Ransom Center's Wallace archive, click here.)
words  english  davidfosterwallace  dictionaries  definitions 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Litotes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"In rhetoric, litotes[1] is a figure of speech in which a certain statement is expressed by denying its opposite. For example, rather than merely saying that a person is attractive (or even very attractive), one might say they are "not unattractive".
definition  language  words  rhetoric  speech  grammar  english  linguistics  litotes  opposites  understatement  enlish  russian  french  icelandic 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Let's Play "Name the Atheist” - Uncategorized - GOOD
"While I embrace (and occasionally spoon) atheism, I sympathize with others who would like a different word but aren’t comfortable with the ultra-hesitant "agnostic" label either. Fortunately, the English language has a rich history and ever-evolving present. In the spirit of previous columns on economic pickles and rampaging Romeos, here’s a guide to old and new terms for non-believing, heretical blasphemers—because godless doesn’t have to mean synonym-less."
religion  atheism  language  english  words  definitions 
april 2010 by robertogreco
The Danish Art of Hygge - Denmark - VisitDenmark
"The Danes have a word that's hard to translate, and no foreigner can hope to pronounce, but it's as Danish as pork roast and cold beer. It's hygge, and it goes far in illuminating the Danish soul. The closest we can come phonetically is "hooga," if we try forming our mouths for "ee" while saying "oo." It doesn’t translate directly into any other language but we can illustrate it in action."
hygge  hyggelig  denmark  culture  copenhagen  words  meaning  definitions  language  danish  coziness  tranquility  peacefullness  definition  comfort  peacefulness 
february 2010 by robertogreco
hackwriters.com - Hyggelig - Denmark in a word - Roger Smith
"As it turned out, the peculiar difficulty of pronouncing this word (for me), the very tenseness of its articulation, belied the meaning in a curious way. That meaning involved a lack of tenseness, a determined relaxation. Dictionaries give "comfortable," "snug," "cozy," "homelike," "accommodating." "Yes," Kaja said. "It means cozy. But that’s only part of it. We want things to be hyggelig whether they are or not. We want it so much it has become nearly subconscious. So we call something hyggelig with intention sometimes and sometimes without meaning much at all, really."
words  denmark  danish  hygge  coziness  tranquility  peacefullness  hyggelig  definition  meaning  comfort  peacefulness 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Culture of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"One of the fundamental aspects of Danish culture is "hygge", which, although translated as "coziness" is more akin to "tranquility". Hygge is a complete absence of anything annoying, irritating, or emotionally overwhelming, and the presence of and pleasure from comforting, gentle, and soothing things. Hygge is often associated with family and close friends. Christmas time when loved ones sit close together with candles lit on a cold rainy night is "hygge", as is grilling a pølse (Danish sausage) on a long summer evening. These examples, although they do not precisely define "hygge", can give an English speaker an idea of a deeply valued traditional concept of Danish culture."
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february 2010 by robertogreco
BBC News - Samoa's slow recovery after Pacific tsunami
"Then there is the resilience itself and the mental attitudes behind it. I learned a bit about this from Chris Salomonu, one of a sizeable minority of men in Samoa who have put themselves through the terrible ordeal of the full body tattoo. It covers the body from just above the knees to just below the ribs and takes two weeks to complete in a succession of excruciating six-hour sessions, using sharpened pigs' tusks and dye from the candlenut plant. After each session, they throw you in the ocean to numb the pain. It was "pure torture, the ultimate physical and mental test of my life," Chris told me. He went in secret to have it done and rang his mother after a couple of days. She told him the whole family would be praying for him but he was not to come home until the tattoo was done. The Samoan word for cowardice is peamoku - or unfinished tattoo. "I've never felt so alone," Chris said, "but I'm glad I went through with it."'
peamoku  tattoos  samoa  polynesia  words  language  tradition 
december 2009 by robertogreco
Jon Ronson on telling his son the worst swearword in the world | Life and style | The Guardian
"My eight-year-old son, Joel, comes into my office to ask if there's a worse swearword than fuck. "No," I say.
education  children  writing  language  humor  parenting  words  fun  swearing  cussing  profanity  kids 
november 2009 by robertogreco
A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families by Giles Turnbull - The Morning News
"Thousands of different Lego exist, yet when your seven-year-old asks for “a clippy bit,” you know exactly what to hand him. GILES TURNBULL surveys a caucus of children and determines a common nomenclature."
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november 2009 by robertogreco
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