As I write this blog post, it is Dictionary Day (October 16). Now, as a writer, I love both words and dictionaries, as well as the magical ways in which words can be sequenced to convey meaning, tone, and point of view. I could have just said syntax, but that word doesn’t pack the weight…
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Call Me Something
I don’t know about you, but I love reading books aloud. Granted, it’s not received too well around the office when I stand on editor-at-large Diane Badden’s office chair and, in a booming voice inflected with the accent of a seafaring 18th century New Englander, declaim in grand tones heard throughout the halls of The…
The Unknown Future of Hand-Generated Communication, part 2
I thought for sure that there’d be a bit more debate in the wake of my most recent post about the future of cursive writing. You know, that writing “they” have now decided should be called hand-generated communication. Since we last exchanged ideas, I have read some of the information that was presented at Handwriting…