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Introduction -- You
can tell quite a lot about yourself from the words you don't use.
- aggressive – Civility makes this
word unnecessary.
- all about -- Weeds in the garden of
inventive language.
- alternative-- Accomplice to the
20th Century's biggest myth.
- analogy -- Uncocking a Trap:
Differences versus similarities.
- art -- In search of
Unity, Emphasis, and Coherence.
- attitude -- The A-Word:
Volition's personal hiding place. S:TM
- basically -- Mindless
attention-holder.
- be -- Be-Free English:
Volition's linguistic hiding place. S:TM
- bourgeois -- On adapting to
conformity.
- canny -- Opposites detract.
- can't -- Volition will say
won't.
- cause -- Wind does not blow
where it listeth. S:TM
- charisma-- An illusive prize still eludes me.
- community -- A collection of
collective nouns.
- compelling -- Over-the-top
persuasion.
- compulsion -- Abdicating
volition to a greed machine.. S:TM
- computer science -- Bytemobile: Technology neglects terminology. S:TM
- comrade -- A trampled flower
in the garden of language.
- concupiscence -- First principles
in sexuality.
- conundrum-- Riddling a
transcendental groaner.
- cop-out-- Parody of
sensitivity training.
- corny-- Technical
commemoration of Art Deco.
- crackpot-- Trademarking the
Stars & Stripes: Cure for flag burning. S:TM
- cunning-- Management Mystery: A
flawed recruiting instrument.
- deniability-- A diatribe against
premeditated cover-up. S:TM
- disabuse -- Passionate Error:
When reality crushes a dream. S:TM
- dyskeptia -- Vulgar Error: When
reality is not good enough. S:TM
- eclectic -- Letting the best
be good enough.
- edutainment -- Another gismo in
the machinery of our language.
- eleemosynary-- Management Secret:
How to select a candidate. S:TM
- elegancelessness-- Self Reference: A
festival of amusements. S:TM
- eschew -- Volition may not
espouse.
- etc. -- There may not be any others.
- expectorate-- On customs in the
dugout.
- factoid -- Respect for facts,
large and small. S:TM
- fairy-- The price for
purloined words.
- falsies -- On juvenile
snickering and grown-up woe.
- feck -- No such word, but
there ought to be.
- fiasco -- Management
Mistake: The rating curve and consequences.
- flaky -- Self-referent put-down.
- fool -- Providential
put-down.
- frivolous -- Aerobic exercises
for the misled mind.
- frugal -- Vital policies for
the nascent mind.
- ground rules-- English as a game
of inches. S:TM
- hackney-- English as a game for
pedants.
- happen-- Parenting by the
Numbers: An offbeat guide to fatherhood. S:TM
- hate -- English as a game
of excesses.
- heuristic-- Discovering
Assumptions: Powerful tool for innovation. S:TM
- holomorph -- Management
Systems: An offbeat guide to brain-trusting.
- horseshit-- Not to be confused
with bullshit.
- housewife -- Abdicating
volition to liberation.
- hubris -- English is Greek
to me.
- humbug -- Saving this word
for an iniquitous movie. S:TM
- hyperbole -- Dangerous weapon
against the bland.
- idealoger -- Dealing with the
devil in the data.
- ignominy-- English as a game
without rules. S:TM
- ilk -- A grandiose
send-up for brain trusters.
- impress-- Beautiful downtown
Reality City.
- insouciance -- Environmental
impact scansion.
- intellectual -- The aspect of mind
best kept in the closet.
- intercourse -- Not to be confused
with intromission.
- into -- Joy to the Jaded:
Close call by candlelight.
- iotacism-- On worthlessness and
wordlessness.
- jeece -- Regional expletive
with pronounced nuance.
- lawyer -- Conceding a
correct parental proscription.
- leverage
-- Fostering risk as a reward for greed. S:TM
- literally-- A useful
distinction lost in habitual hyperbole.
- litotes-- A self-referent
tangle of terms.
- loser -- On the cult of
winning.
- lucky -- Retrospective
reality and prospective insights.
- matriphobia -- The most common of
all fears has no name.
- middle age -- The minority to
which no one aspires.
- miracle -- Municipal laws in
Reality City.
- misconstrue -- The good, the bad,
and the unctuous.
- mukashi-- Matter Over Mind:
Memories in machines and elsewhere. S:TM
- Negro -- A linguistic event, as sudden as curious. S:TM
- neologer -- Being what one
calls oneself.
- nerd -- Derogation
tinctured with envy.
- nihilism -- Dumping reality,
dismissing morality.
- nope -- One memory can be
strong enough to obliterate a whole word.
- n't -- The most important
word in any sentence.
- obsession -- On creating word
problems.
- old age-- The Nine-Year-Old Child: Legends are made not
born.
- ordure -- Pondering the
primal scream.
- orientate -- Ornamentating
verbs for no good reason.
- overkill -- Fallout Shelter:
An obscenity became a household word.
- pancake-- On a curiously
familiar abbr.
- paradigm-- Valuable coinage
squandered on pretension.
- parameter -- A juicy term that
got gobbledegooked.
- paraprosdakian -- A ubiquitous
instrument of jocularity.
- parriage
-- A neologism for preseving a sacred
institutions.
- person -- On lunacy in
language.
- personnel-- A linguistic event
in management.
- pig -- Hardly a term of
endearment.
- Platonic-- Gender Bender:
Where winning meets losing. S:TM
- pluplural -- Laugh and Learn:
Where degree meets kind. S:TM
- poetry -- Belief in the paradoggerel.
- point in time -- A worthwhile
concept quashed by pedants.
- polykut
--
On inventing things more than names.
- pretermission -- What a word ought to mean but doesn't
- problematical -- Too many synonyms
are -- well, problematical.
- prolix -- Fibonacci and the
Saguaro: Deciphering aesthetics.
- propur alcon ad solap -- Management Treasure: The Rational Process.
- puke -- A noun reserved
for making a point.
- pussyfoot-- A verb reserved for
being reserved.
- quadrumanous -- On nature's
redundant tautology.
- quasi -- Not to be confused
with semi.
- Quient -- Land of the Shiny
People: Volition's limits in management.. S:TM
- ramification -- Denatured verbs
hiding in wimpy nouns.
- Reaman -- On naming and being
named.
- relationship-- A gender specific
euphemism.
- restitution -- Punishing the
criminal does not repay the crime.
- retromingent-- One of many unplayed pranks.
- retrotax -- Paying the Full
Price: How to solve all of our problems.S:TM
- role model-- Smokey Joe: The
moral equivalent of a three-lunger. S:TM
- rump -- Management
Lexicon: It all started with a dirty story.
- run -- Meaning lost in
too many meanings. S:TM
- sarcasmic -- Taking a word from
bad to worse.
- science fiction -- As bogus as
rhyming gibberish.
- Scotch -- The particular meets the general.
- sequigamnesia -- The best kept
secret about divorce.
- sheepskin -- A son's
remembrance of a father's resentment. S:TM
- sincere -- Transforming
misapprehension into high jinx. S:TM
- sitcom -- Reflections in a
laughing bottle.
- solipsism -- Philosophy of self absorprtion.
- splendid-- Transforming high
jinx into peer approval.
- squaw -- A world-class pun
lost to ethnicity.
- stereotype-- An uprooted vegetable in a garden of vexation
- stupid- No brainer of the third kind
- subconscious -- How the
unconscious subverts deceit. S:TM
- survival value -- Ostentation pays
off in perpetuation.
- synecdoche-- Deciphering meaning
from particulars.
- talisman-- Parental guidance as
a subversive act.
- televisions-- On words with
singular plurality.
- threat -- Liberation means
reciprocal inquiry.
- track record-- Secrets of success,
revelations in failure.
- tridecabillion -- Acquiring the
power of guessing. S:TM
- trivia-- Acquiring the power
of knowing.
- truculent-- Acquiring the power
of diligence.
- unbelievable-- On petty pilfering
from necessary notions.
- urinate -- Expressions caught
between the dog and the fire plug.
- velar-- A billion-dollar idea
that nobody wants. S:TM
- very -- Strength through
deletion.
- viable -- A lively word
transplanted to a garden of weeds.
- virago -- Self-Proving
Theorem: Gender asymmetry, ready or not.
- virgule -- Slashing the
English Language.
- war -- A hobgoblin against
calamity.
- way, shape, or form -- Pompous
protestations
- xanthocroid-- If the slur fits,
wear it.
- zygote -- Becoming Human:
The minority from which we all emerge.
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