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   From: chine.bleu@yahoo.com   
      
   Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
   >> I thought Benny had disappeared down a spider hole of his own shame.   
   >> >   
   >> >He argued sea level rise was not a problem because home owners could   
   >> >just sell their houses.   
   > What? To kelp or shellfish farmers?   
      
   Elon Muskrat.   
      
   > (fortune   
   >      (aiksaurus "thesaurus"   
   >      === directory ================   
   >      atlas, bibliography, blue book, calendar, casebook, catalog,   
   >      checklist, concordance, cyclopedia, directory, encyclopedia,   
   >      gazetteer, guidebook, handbook, index, itinerary, literature,   
   >      lore, pedigree, phone book, polyglot, record book, reference   
   >      book, road map, source book, studbook, telephone book,   
   >      thesaurus, Yellow Pages   
   >      )   
   > )   
   >   
   > -- What's another word for "thesaurus"? -- Steven Wright   
      
   Apple's dictionary application:   
      
   thesaurus   
   noun   
   wordfinder, wordbook, synonym dictionary; rare synonymy.   
   REFLECTIONS   
   Joshua Ferris   
   thesaurus   
   We turn to a thesaurus when in search of a word—ideally, when one knows   
   just the right word but has forgotten it; less ideally, and almost   
   always disappointingly, both for reader and writer, when one goes in   
   blindly to hunt down something cooler, smarter, rarer, or bigger. There   
   is a class of words taken from the lexicon of pathologists that detail   
   the disorders of the mind afflicting (not literally, and mercifully only   
   temporarily) every flailing, thesaurus-wielding writer. My favorites are   
   anomia, a form of aphasia in which the writer (er, patient) is unable to   
   recall the names of everyday objects; dysnomia, the difficulty of   
   retrieving the correct words or names from memory; echolalia, the   
   meaningless repetition of words and phrases; and dysgraphia, the   
   difficulty in writing coherently. Cures for the latter two can be found   
   in no reference book. It’s interesting how similar these terms for   
   neurological disease sound like those for rhetorical devices, like   
   parataxis, apophasis, meiosis. In the end, and done correctly, writing’s   
   just another pathology.   
   Conversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an   
   opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word   
   or usage.   
      
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