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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
- awfully -- Enlisting self-contradicting
adverbs to strengthen adjectives.
- 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.
- cool -- Dispensable word for visiting a
museum.
- cop-out-- Parody of sensitivity training.
- corny-- Technical commemoration of Art
Deco.
- crackpot -- Trademarking the Stars &
Stripes: Cure for flag burning. S:TM
- crazy -- Badness
diagnosed as madness.
- 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
- double
entendre -- An octogenarian struggles to
learn French.
- 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.
- existential-- Recognizing one 'cab-word'.
And another.
- 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.
- incredible -- Twenty years shift in
unbelievable greatness.
- 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.
- no-brainer -- Originally coined as a
replacement for 'stupid idea'.
- 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.
- oversight -- Management responsibility or
mistake, which?
- pancake-- On a curiously familiar abbr.
- paradigm-- Valuable coinage squandered on
pretension.
- parameter -- A juicy term that got gobbledegooked.
- paraprosdokian -- 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.
- there there -- A phrase that has lost its
cleverness through laziness.
- 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.
- zhwark --
Place-holder for a better expression to come
along.
- zygote -- Becoming Human: The minority from
which we all emerge.
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