Eco-sportswear "concept" Nau issues a going-out-of-business manifesto: In the current highly risk-averse capital market, we simply could not raise the necessary funds to continue to move forward. We believe this is not so much a reflection of the viability of our business, but the result of an unfortunate confluence of events. …
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The New Old Thing
http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2008/05/the-new-old-thi.htmlBrim coffee, Salon Solutions hair products, Eagle snack foods, Nuprin pain reliever: they're gone but not forgotten, writes Rob Walker in "Can a Dead Brand Live Again?" in the May 18 New York Times Sunday magazine. …
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Word of the Week: BLAD
http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2008/05/word-of-the-w-2.htmlBLAD: Publishing-industry term for a short advance version of a book--usually the jacket art and several sample pages--that gives a publicist or distributor the gist of the contents and design. Said to be an acronym of Basic Layout And Design; however, it may be a backronym from blad, Scots dialect …
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Classic example of wordiness
http://www.badlanguage.net/classic-example-of-wordinessFritinancy.
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Typos Just for Me
http://verbatim.blogs.com/verbatim/2008/06/typos-just-for-me...Nancy
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Web 2.Oh. . .really?
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The Value of Words
http://evangelicalperspective.blogspot.com/2008/06/value-of-...pulled out his date book to set the date. Needless to say, it was a learning experience for Sproul, not just in the embarrassment of the moment, but as an example of the importance of words in this world. During this past century, whether from Buckminster Fuller or Jacques Derrida, the meaning of words has disintegrated. Though their goals differed (Fuller questioned the consensus of meaning assigned to words and Derrida questioned the understandability of language) the result of both has been the loss of a
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A brilliant new scheme for measuring the productivity of journalists. – Michael Kinsley
http://toldorknown.com/post/38186855many, many words to make whatever point you may be trying to make or fact you are attempting to report, you will be considered more productive than another writer who takes pains to be concise—that is, to use fewer words rather than more words.(via Fritinancy)
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America’s Digging Dap!
http://pcashperspective.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/americas-di...While some are worried that this gesture is some type of secret communist signal, and others rejoice over it’s indulgent “Blackness”, there is one thing that we all should agree on, the dap is out of the bag. Check out this great discussion of the history behind the word dap… Here’s the dap that started it all… Here’s a great video piece on the “fist-bump”, otherwise known as “dap”…
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Clayoquot Wilderness Resort Blog
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Wishydig
http://wishydig.blogspot.com(Nancy Friedman's recent post reminded me of the McGurk Effect.) A long time ago I started to doubt that [m] and [n] could possibly be different sounds. I would close my mouth and make the mmmmm sound then I would put my tongue on the alveolar ridge. That's really not as dirty as
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FICTIONARY: Blog Tours, Book Reviews, and Author Interviews
http://cballan.wordpress.comCheck out Fritinancy’s post today. I made the mailbag!
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All is vanity
http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/06/03/all-is-vanity/Fritinancy]
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