I love words. I’m a big fan. I’m not the brightest person when it comes to using words but I’m trying to improve and find them incredibly interesting to learn about. Sometimes this is in the form of over analyzing how sentences are phrased or just looking up the definition of a word I’d never seen before. You know, learning.… Continue reading What is it that you mean? (Part 1)
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Slang to Help Doctors Slice & Dice
This post’s title is merely a play off someone else’s blog post, Cynicism and People Cutting you into Little Pieces, over at VeryUnloved. It was a blog I sort of stumbled upon by chance, but they had an amusing post about all the slang terms that doctors use for patients. Some of my favorites: AGA – Acute… Continue reading Slang to Help Doctors Slice & Dice
5 Words You Don’t Want Describing Your Gift
There are plenty of words out there that you’d want describing a gift you’re giving to someone (ex. awesome, great, alluring) and there are some obviously undesirable words (ex. terrible, inappropriate, bad). Here is my list of words that aren’t obviously poor gift descriptions but they’re really no good: Useful – It is a good… Continue reading 5 Words You Don’t Want Describing Your Gift
Teaching a Phone to Talk (Part 3)
I have a smartphone. The auto-correct feature for typing is pretty good and allows you to add words to the dictionary it might not otherwise have. As it would be, I have 217 words that I’ve added to my dictionary and most of them are pretty silly/unnecessary. Here is the third part (check out the… Continue reading Teaching a Phone to Talk (Part 3)
Teaching a Phone to Talk (Part 2)
I have a smartphone (more specifically an HTC Aria running Android Froyo). The auto-correct feature for typing is pretty good and it allows you to add words to its dictionary that it might not otherwise have. It turns out, as of this morning, I have 217 words that I added to my dictionary and most… Continue reading Teaching a Phone to Talk (Part 2)
Teaching a Phone to Talk (Part 1)
I have a smartphone (more specifically an HTC Aria running Android Froyo). The auto-correct feature for typing is pretty good and it allows you to add words to its dictionary that it might not otherwise have. It turns out, as of this morning, I have 217 words that I added to my dictionary and most… Continue reading Teaching a Phone to Talk (Part 1)
Words That Lose Friends
I’m an avid player of Words with Friends, a Scrabble-like game for smartphones and Facebook. The trick to the game is not really having a big vocabulary, but more so to have absolute understanding of all the world’s short and somewhat cheap words (I’m looking at you, “qi.”) Recently I stumbled across the word “za,”… Continue reading Words That Lose Friends