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
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
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.
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.
nihilism -- Dumping
reality, dismissing morality.
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.
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.
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
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.
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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