When I’m using a thesaurus, it generally is not because I want to find, as a synonym for “sad,” a word like “gloomy” or “unhappy.” It’s because I’m looking for something like “lugubrious.”
Show me a thesaurus that will give me synonyms like “mendicant,” “tarradiddle,” “recrudescence,” “bowdlerize,” or “sigil,” and I will be happy convivial.
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Why do all thesauri seem to suck?
February 25, 2010 – 10:43 am
Facebook Camp
July 8, 2008 – 8:49 pm
Having just returned from FacebookCampToronto4, I have to say that the more I learn about Facebook, the more concerned I become.
First it was the Youtube video about how Facebook owns everything you put on it, and is (somewhat loosely) connected to all sort of people/agencies involved in various intelligence gathering initiatives and operations.
That aside, what [...]