Netvouz / madelvic / tag / language-and-literature http://www.netvouz.com/madelvic/tag/language-and-literature?feed=rss&pg=1 madelvic's bookmarks tagged "language-and-literature" on Netvouz From inboxing to thought showers : How business bullshit took over https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/23/from-inboxing-to-thought-showers-how-business-bullshit-took-over "Vacuous management-speak is easily laughed off – but is there a real cost to talking rubbish?" madelvic Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:38:58 GMT Glossary [Daniel Crouch Rare Books] https://crouchrarebooks.com/discover/glossary/ "Glossary of terms for collectors of rare maps, atlases, books, globes and other related scientific objects." madelvic Mon, 05 Feb 2018 11:20:01 GMT Gobbledygook generator https://www.plainenglish.co.uk/gobbledygook-generator.html "Have you ever wanted to use meaningless, empty phrases that make it look like you know what you are talking about? Simply click on the button below this paragraph and a random piece of business jargon will appear in the box." madelvic Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:34:02 GMT Homerisms http://inpraiseofargument.squarespace.com/homerisms/ Figures of speech from "The Simpsons". madelvic Mon, 14 May 2007 15:42:24 GMT How do you decode a hapax? (Also, What’s a hapax?) https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hapax-legomenon-hapaxes "It’s a word that only appears once in a work, author’s oeuvre, or an entire language’s written record." madelvic Fri, 08 Sep 2017 10:21:24 GMT KissThisGuy.com https://www.kissthisguy.com/ The archive of funny misheard lyrics (a.k.a. mondegreens) madelvic Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:38:33 GMT Latin Phrases https://latin-phrases.co.uk/ "Latin-Phrases.co.uk was created to provide a comprehensive dictionary of Latin sayings, Latin quotes and Latin mottoes on various topics." madelvic Thu, 02 Dec 2010 10:47:57 GMT List of Latin phrases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(full) madelvic Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:55:48 GMT Naming of the shrew : What's in a scientific name? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29897841# Latin binomials and the 'Inocybe eutheles' mushroom. madelvic Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:21:48 GMT OpenStreetMap Haiku : Using OSM and Overpass for generative poetry https://satellitestud.io/blog/post/openstreetmap-haiku/ "Looking at every aspect of the surroundings of a point, we can generate a poem about any place in the world. The result is sometimes fun, often weird, most of the time pretty terrible." madelvic Thu, 13 Feb 2020 17:56:01 GMT