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A Chance to Think: August 2007
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A Chance to Think. Serena Rainey thinks out loud on language, politics, art, and culture - putting life in context as much as we can. Tuesday, August 28, 2007. How to stop confusing words without memorizing the dictionary. It's happening more and more often. People who can fly planes, fix arteries and gain public office are saying "imply" for "infer" and "flaunt" when they want "flout". Why? To imply is to ". All we can be sure of is that "flout" means "to scorn or disregard" and seems to have once been ...
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A Chance to Think: November 2008
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A Chance to Think. Serena Rainey thinks out loud on language, politics, art, and culture - putting life in context as much as we can. Thursday, November 13, 2008. Pour these wordjams over your consciousness and see whether anything is altered. It's about time for another wordjam. You may or may not go to church. If you are Catholic, the correct rendering of that sentence is, "You must go to Mass." If not, the correct recasting is, "You should enroll in RCIA. Altar comes from the Latin. Conscious, conscie...
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A Chance to Think: Matriarchy, patriarchy, patronization, matronization and the matrix
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A Chance to Think. Serena Rainey thinks out loud on language, politics, art, and culture - putting life in context as much as we can. Thursday, March 12, 2009. Matriarchy, patriarchy, patronization, matronization and the matrix. I hear a lot of complaints about patriarchy. Since I willingly belong to an arguably patriarchal organization of some repute, I respond with a few years' thinking. Elitism, inequality, inequity, iniquity, misogyny or even brotherhood. Egalitarianism is the rule of leveling everyo...
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A Chance to Think: May 2008
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A Chance to Think. Serena Rainey thinks out loud on language, politics, art, and culture - putting life in context as much as we can. Monday, May 5, 2008. Why you need a foreign language or twelve. Is it going to be English? Not if the English-speaking countries don't start remembering what words mean long enough to communicate. Will it be Spanish? Could be. Mandarin Chinese. Perhaps, but Westerners would have a hard time learning it. Or will some dark horse run out and take the blue ribbon? Or Samoan or...
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A Chance to Think: September 2007
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A Chance to Think. Serena Rainey thinks out loud on language, politics, art, and culture - putting life in context as much as we can. Monday, September 24, 2007. Why legalizing drugs wouldn't increase drug abuse. In Amsterdam, according to Reason Magazine, psychedelic mushrooms sell in stores over the counter. Only one-twelfth of the city's people surveyed have even tried them and one in a few hundred has shroomed. In a month, the article says. Drug abuse kills US citizens often, and usually early in life.
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A Chance to Think: Why you need a foreign language or twelve
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A Chance to Think. Serena Rainey thinks out loud on language, politics, art, and culture - putting life in context as much as we can. Monday, May 5, 2008. Why you need a foreign language or twelve. Is it going to be English? Not if the English-speaking countries don't start remembering what words mean long enough to communicate. Will it be Spanish? Could be. Mandarin Chinese. Perhaps, but Westerners would have a hard time learning it. Or will some dark horse run out and take the blue ribbon? Or Samoan or...
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A Chance to Think: Oh, the Irony of It All.
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A Chance to Think. Serena Rainey thinks out loud on language, politics, art, and culture - putting life in context as much as we can. Wednesday, August 13, 2008. Oh, the Irony of It All. Sarcasm is America's first language. Sitcom writers have studied sarcasm and irony so closely that if you don't understand every detail of the life experiences of fictional characters, you can't keep track of what the live studio audience is laughing about. Phoebe says, "Don't get all testosteroney. All sarcasm and irony...
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A Chance to Think: April 2008
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A Chance to Think. Serena Rainey thinks out loud on language, politics, art, and culture - putting life in context as much as we can. Tuesday, April 1, 2008. I've heard it one time too many and can't listen another time without saying something. Please don't confuse "flaunt" with "flout". To flaunt something is to show it off. If you flaunt my advice you are proud of it. If you flout it, I can't do anything for you. Will tell you all the words I. Know Here the nouns are bold. And you can't see. It's just...
