Horror strikes the saussurian congress : the foul-mouthed debutante was chomskian!

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Published in:  on December 29, 2008 at 10:45 am Leave a Comment

Lucienne had an inner laugh and thanked herself for having downloaded quite a few new words during the afternoon, such as gorgonzola, ombudsmand and scream. But then she realized that she had forgotten to configure her larynx!

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Published in:  on December 19, 2008 at 10:05 pm Leave a Comment

“Well, young man. She’s too shy to admit it, but she’s heard so many exciting things about glossaries that she can’t wait to see yours. And so do I, I must say”

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Published in:  on December 9, 2008 at 7:29 pm Leave a Comment

“Words! Glossaries! Alphabets! Fricatives! That’s disgusting! I forbid you to see that, how do you call him… linguist! I call them phonies! I don’t want a single word in my house! Just what we needed : another wordhopper!”

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Published in:  on December 8, 2008 at 11:27 am Leave a Comment

Your glossary or your life!

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Some ladies are just too lazy or desperate to gather their own glossaries together, but when they suddenly need one for good, nothing will stop them. No more Madam-I-spend-my-days-eating-candies-in-bed-while-you-can-do-the-talking. This one means serious business. Our advice : yield!

Published in:  on December 7, 2008 at 12:43 pm Leave a Comment

“Glossary my eye! With this kind of words, believe me, she had something else in mind”

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Published in:  on December 5, 2008 at 4:35 pm Leave a Comment

“What! Are you telling me that I had to sleep for fourty years with this hag just because a dyslexic bureaucrat with a PhD in applied psycholinguistics couldn’t spell thespian correctly!!!”

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Published in:  on December 1, 2008 at 11:34 pm Leave a Comment

Express your core values with words

Companies that have adopted words internally say a surprising benefit is the ease with which (female) employees can learn relevant information across departments. The sales staff, for instance, may get wind of projects in development long before it otherwise would. “We’re very, very lexically oriented” Mrs Vollmilch said. “Our sales ladies can watch those conversations, and it informs them about who they might want to pull into projects or have talk to a customer. That never really bubbled up to the top before.

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Published in:  on November 29, 2008 at 10:52 am Leave a Comment

Mrs Harriet Schwartz’s brain sued by her own words

We just couldn’t stand it any longer in this mass of squid jelly” were (approximately) Mrs Harriet Schwartz’s words first words after they’ve been successfully exfiltrated from her brain.

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Words for beginners

Some people get very nervous when it comes to using words for the first time. They’ve heard so many scary things about word etiquette that they prefer sipping martinis at the bar rather than engaging in exciting conversations. It would be wise to invest in an expensive dictionary where you will find all the words you need so you can combine them to produce the most exquisite sentences (think of sentences as flowers in a bouquet). Just breathe deep, curtsy if necessary and here we go, straight into the staggering whirl of words.

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Published in:  on November 26, 2008 at 8:09 pm Leave a Comment

According to a leading anthropologist : “linguistics is pure ventriloquy”

One thing is sure : you can always count on people with degrees to coin exciting sentences!

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A recent study shows that words could significantly increase the average quality of your conversations

Well, peer-reviews of this study are still rather mixed but why not take a chance? Just remember to remain cautious and incremental. One word at a time, and see what happens.

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Published in:  on November 25, 2008 at 8:36 pm Leave a Comment

Oh no! Not again!

Here you are. You thought you were going to spend a quiet evening, having a great time fidgeting with words, and vlam! Guess who shows up? The Persona girls in person! And as usual, don’t expect them to do the talking or to bring a bottle.

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The end of the word might be nearer than you think

Anyhow, silence worshippers shouldn’t rejoyce too quickly. Leading linguists are quite adamant : it wouldn’t make sense to start a moldavian folk dance right now. Yes indeed, those of you who think that the end of the word will mean the ultimate triumph of quietness are on their way to experience a painful awakening when they open their windows in the morning to find out that the streets have been left at the mercy of screaming people tearing glossaries into shreds.

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What becomes a sentence most?

Your sentences deserve only the best, the brightest, and (some would go so far to say) the most danish words on earth. Using a minimum of 13,52 % of words including the much coveted letter Ø at least three times a day has been reported to increase significantly the level of some recently discovered fricative-friendly hormones. You’ve heard about words. Now it’s time to try them!

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