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Beverly Lucey's (New) Home for Wayward Words: The Language Wrangler Rides Again
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008. The Language Wrangler Rides Again. Beverly's Big Bad List of Homonyms. Three of the things that can drive people crazy about English spelling and meaning is continual confusion over homonyms, homophones, and homographs. That's why it's important that both techniques be used in the classroom. That fallacy of either/or causes problems. When linguists are getting all huffy? While reading an academic exploration of the issues called. I found true the following author note: (. Kept ...
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Beverly Lucey's (New) Home for Wayward Words: Forgetting Stuff
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008. Here’s Why You Don’t Have Alzheimer’s. You worry about it though. I worry. Sometimes I can’t come up with the word or my thoughts wander in the middle of a sentence. Uh, oh. Is my mind too busy or too spongy. So goes the dilemma. What am I without my words? Glance over there to the next check out line. (Don’t be obvious) A woman is looking through her pocketbook with THAT LOOK on her face. She’s worried. Has she lost her wallet? Is the wallet still on the counter in the kitchen?
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Beverly Lucey's (New) Home for Wayward Words: Making Metaphors/Similes
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012. You need a camera. A real one. Trust me: your pathetic little cellphone will die out there like a whiny vegan in a Vegas steakhouse." - Mark Morford August 22, 2012 SFGate . Students are very aware of metaphors and similes in everyday conversation but might not have the vocabulary to conceptualize how they work. Ex Our mind is a garden growing new ideas if we feed it well. . How do we feed our minds? What would be junk food TV and what would be a balanced meal for our minds?
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Beverly Lucey's (New) Home for Wayward Words: Big Mistake
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Monday, July 14, 2008. The New Yorker Cover of July 21. It wasn't on the stands yet, but the cover was tooling around cyberspace as if Wall-E had plucked it from a garbage dump. It's awful. But exploring the reasons it's awful is worth more than a news cycle of thought. Most people do not read The New Yorker (sorry to say) nor Vanity Fair, but they watch the reactions when there is a kerfluffle. The assumptions made by the artist and the editor were unwise. I lived in Georgia when Max Cleland was smeared.
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Beverly Lucey's (New) Home for Wayward Words: Money Matters
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008. You know the feeling. You work. You get paid. You get the check or the direct deposit slip and you feel a bit.flush. You also have plastic. Oh, and that stimulus check. Now it’s patriotic to go spend it? Best to have only one or two credit cards lest you get yourself into trouble when for some reason you think your life will be significantly better if you:. 8226; Get an even bigger TV. 8226; See what's up with this iPhone thing. 8226;Upgrade your computer. You can host a fabulous d...
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Beverly Lucey's (New) Home for Wayward Words: Lost in Translation
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008. Tripping Over Our Own Ideas. Most of us know that certain messages lose their meaning in translation. If you try to explain. A joke or a witty remark to someone, it stops being funny the instant you try. Take a sip of wine, move along and try it on the next bunch of folks at the party. Better yet, don't risk it. The moment has evaporated. Language Dangers Red Alert. When Jimmy Carter was President he was assigned someone to translate during his trip to Poland, who apparently had ...
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Beverly Lucey's (New) Home for Wayward Words: Briar Hill Lodge: Covington, GA
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Monday, June 10, 2013. Briar Hill Lodge: Covington, GA. All things Garden Shed happened while we lived in Georgia, without a basement, and with frequent tornadoes. It started out as a garden shed, but it became pretty obvious, at least to me. That Husband had other intentions from the get go. Time, it was, “How about a garden shed, just for a place to keep my tools, you know. The garage is a mess. I’ve got to get a little order around here.”. Our carpenter, Kevin, paid a visit, so I knew things were gett...
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Beverly Lucey's (New) Home for Wayward Words: 10 Steps of the Public Lie
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008. 10 Steps of the Public Lie. Everyone does it. Oh, really? The scene is so familiar. Someone in the public eye, often a politician, but not always (. Is connected to a disappearance, a bludgeoning, a break-in, dirty tricks, larceny, whatever. It’s exhausting to watch. At every step, we view:. Babble, babble, guess, guess, assume, wonder, theorize). The Second, slightly different ‘hastily called news conference.’. Babble, babble, guess, guess, assume, wonder, theorize some more).
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Beverly Lucey's (New) Home for Wayward Words: Kindles for Kindling: A Dangerous Fire
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Monday, November 2, 2009. Kindles for Kindling: A Dangerous Fire. No real legacy there. But you might enjoy this send up of. The Early Help Desk. I hope we don't forget actual reading in books, that we can pass along in favor of renting words. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). If you have wondered where I am,. Beverly Carol Lucey has published. Short fiction in Portland Maine Magazine, Flint River Review,. Moxie, Quality Women's Fiction,(UK) InkPot and Wild Strawberries. Scissors, Paper, Rock.
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Beverly Lucey's (New) Home for Wayward Words: Crime and Punishment
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009. During the first week of October, 2001, only nine years ago, Georgia finally declared the use of the electric chair to be “cruel and unusual punishment.”. A state that moved from the Hanging Solution to the Wonders of Electricity now uses lethal injection to carry out capital punishment. Regardless of what your position is on the death penalty, evidence of uneven sentencing for all manner of crimes and misdemeanors befuddles even the most fair minded of people. Zero tolerance s...
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