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By: FinermanWorks » Blog Archive » Royal Gossip - Crafting Words with Impact

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:06:06 +0000

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By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:34:20 +0000

Great post, Eugene…well said!

By: Richard Greb

Richard Greb — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:23:09 +0000

Ah, the joys of nuance.

By: Megan R. Barnes

Megan R. Barnes — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:21:39 +0000

I want to be a polymath someday! I’ve never found a thesaurus to be very useful. If I wanted to say I was excited to meet the queen, and I just picked one of the synonyms, I might say I was agitated or aroused to meet the queen, not exactly what I was going for.

By: Rey Hinckley

Rey Hinckley — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:47:06 +0000

And all this time I thought they rode an encylopeadia.

By: Bob Kincaid

Bob Kincaid — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:17:10 +0000

Eugene,

I never cease to be amazed/dumbfounded/gobsmacked by your historic reach/acumen/command.

Let’s hear it/praise/accord accolades to Mr. Roget!

And to this day, Fundamentalists are quite certain Adam & Eve rode a Thesaurus to church on Sundays!