Archive for January, 2010

Words of a Feather Flock Together: Semantic Fields and Consistency in Word Choice

Words of a Feather Flock Together: Semantic Fields and Consistency in Word Choice

One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn’t belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others? By the time I finish my song? Did you guess which thing was not like the others? Did you guess which thing just doesn’t belong? If you guessed this …

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To Contract or Not To Contract: Hamlet’s True Dilemma.

To Contract or Not To Contract: Hamlet’s True Dilemma.

Hamlet’s mental dilemma, beginning with what must certainly be the most famous written line in all of English literature, “To be or not to be,” is literally one of life or death.  He poses his personal agony to himself on the most metaphysical levels.  He does not mean, “shall I kill myself?”, nor does he ask himself, “can …

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Reading Your Written Work

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