Playing scrabble was hell.
Following links taught me the meaning, and more importantly the pronunciation of tsundere.
But being unable to spell was hell for a very long time.Love my thesaurus! Second edition, so clearly even more super than the first Super Thesaurus. They had scraps of paper pinned to the shelves with notable things customers had said to them over the years, and one was the query “Do you have one of those books that is like a dictionary, but isn’t, and sounds like a dinosaur?”I still can’t use the word I want quite a lot of the time. Two of the smartest people I know couldn’t spell their way out of a wet paper bag.Oooh. At least once a day I look for spelling for a word that is so incorrect in my mind that no computer program can find it.I have one of those, too. I love that words build stories for us to enjoy, and in so many different ways can express emotions and ideas.I will now go lose hours in her dictionary.When I was 14, I went to stay for the summer with some friends of the family in southern Germany, where I felt pretty much constantly ignorant. My day is made.The result of that estival labor is Miss Heifetz’s second book, ”From Bach to Verse: Comic Mnemonics for Famous Musical Themes,” recently published by Penguin Books. I love words.
Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words: Byrne, Josefa Heifetz, Heifetz, Josefa, Byrne, Robert: Amazon.com.au: Books It was a joy to talk with my mother whose vocabulary was verbose. ! I think it’s sad to see how people, because they don’t read and USE their words, seem to more and more lose or at least minimize their possibility to understand different nuances of words, synonyms and explanations because they don’t understand the meaning of the words. Or haptic, which leads to proprioception. Byrne and Heifetz were divorced in 1976. ”I was weaned on Toscanini’s idea of vivace, which, as I recall, approached the speed of light.” In her frustration she began to improvise lyrics to that piece and, over the course of a summer, to other classics.It kind of reminds me of something I’ve seen a lot in my patient advocacy work, where I’m subscribed to certain keywords for google alerts, so I see a TON of newsletters that purport to be writing about medical issues, where they take a press release and run it through some sort of program whereby a thesaurus replaces the original words with synonyms (software presumably intended to beat plagiarism detectors) and then the “newsletter” publishes it as an original article. Most of the preceding come from Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words, by Josefa Heifetz Byrne, a volume no aspiring know-it-all dare be without. On May 12, 1958, Byrne married Josefa Heifetz, concert pianist and daughter of legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz. You can … Down the Ravine by … I have a nimiety of definitions, I do. They cain’t hardly spell the ones they already know.It’s huge and thick and needs to be rebound.
I suspect this explains a lot…I am convinced that spelling ability is a genetic trait. The internet has its own serendipity, but it’s not quite the same kind.Had if for so long, I used to be able to see all the word entries clearly without my reading glasses;)I’m grateful that as a woman, I’ll never be asked to sing that as written, because after thinking of the Kangaroo version for 49 years, I doubt if I could get the words right.Thank you K.M. Not just any thesaurus, mind you. On May 9, 1991, Byrne married Cynthia Nelms, a graphic artist and painter, who struck his fancy by sending him an extremely well-written fan letter. My favorite one referred to x-rays as x-beams.What are some of her unusual, obscure or preposterous favorites? And there were always a great many dreadful puns. Because of school schedules there, this meant attending Gymnasium with my age-mate as I tried to learn some German. It’s sometimes a bit unnerving to discover someone you’re talking to don’t understand you even if you’re using perfectly normal words because the only reading they do is chat conversations… I know people in their 50s with whom I have to use children’s language because otherwise they just don’t understand what I mean. Happy (Jubilant) Thesaurus (Onomasticon) Day (Diurnal Course)!Less than half an hour after I’d commented about the thesaurus I love, I got an “Amazon recommends” email touting “The Emotion Thesaurus.”I grew up in a family of word people.
“Or linonophobia,’ which means fear of string. “I weent to the San Francisco public library and got every single book I could on words.”Which blew me away and made me feel even more ignorant, if that was even possible.
So much that it stymied my writing and I didn’t actually do much except poetry until spell checkers became widespread. “catawampus” in Mrs. Byrne [Josefa Heifetz Byrne], Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words: Gathered from Numerous and Diverse Authoritative Sources, London: Granada Publishing, 1979, →ISBN.
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