简介：a monthly column for word lovers

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“Visual Thesaurus : Language Lounge”的内容更新

累计：46 篇（自 2009-02-23 起）

更新：约1篇/月，最后更新17 天前

Visual Thesaurus : Language Lounge

A Rare But Potentially Life-Threatening Condition

in this month's language lounge, we explore one of the most curious corners of contemporary consumer culture: the litany of side effects in commercials for prescription drugs, in which sometimes horrifying conditions are narrated over pleasing images. warning: may cause unsettling contemplation.... (17 天前)

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Visual Thesaurus : Language Lounge

Dialect Wars: Pacific Theater

a recent new york times article reports that the philippines has now overtaken india as the hub of the outsourced call center. the article contains a telling characterization of the philippines as "a former united states colony that has a large population of young people who speak lightly accented english and, unlike many indians, are steeped in american... (45 天前)

http://inezha.com/w/zpnbg34

Visual Thesaurus : Language Lounge

Brief is Beautiful

the internet makes it possible to publish dictionaries containing entries of any length, in any format, that are not necessarily subject to traditional rules or conventions. so it's fair to ask: is abandoning the traditional short-form definition, along with the paper it was once printed on, a case of throwing out the baby with the bathwater? or is it a ... (79 天前)

http://inezha.com/w/qisfe3p

Visual Thesaurus : Language Lounge

Lexical Apostasy

words step outside of their borders all the time; and once they are in new territory, they rarely follow the rules that bound them in their original context. as time passes, they can become complete strangers to their original users, and may even be seen as betraying them.... (109 天前)

http://inezha.com/w/2akdq3d

Visual Thesaurus : Language Lounge

Truth, Light, and Knowledge at Your Service

the idea of the "elevator talk" is that you only have the duration of an elevator ride to get your idea across, so you have to strip it to its essentials. starting long before this idea came along, however, organizations and institutions have striven to encapsulate their essence even more succinctly, in a short form of expression called a "motto."... (138 天前)

http://inezha.com/w/8tv193j

Visual Thesaurus : Language Lounge

Secret Lives of Adjectives

if we divide up the short list of english parts of speech according to status, adjectives are at the top of the b-list. the elites, nouns and verbs, seem to get everyone's attention because without them, sentences wouldn't have a job.... (170 天前)

http://inezha.com/w/o2s2o3v

Visual Thesaurus : Language Lounge

The -Ize Has It

english is not long on productive verb-creating affixes — things you can tack onto or tuck into words at will to make entirely new verbs and get away with it — so it's worth celebrating one of the few that have a proven track record: the suffix -ize. -ize allows you to neologize when the occasion calls for it, in a way that very few other english affix... (201 天前)

http://inezha.com/w/jektx3a

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