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I love the thesaurus more than I love myself sometimes
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Someone had a dream of building his own library for a far flung town in the southernmost parts of the Philippines. He gave me an idea to help without even asking. I have not so old children's books and I have started collecting #dictionaries and #thesauruses (not quite sure if that's the right plural form) and will pack them in a box and send them on their way to those little children eager to learn. One day, they will hopefully grow up to be like this young Tausug who is now almost a doctor, raring to go back and be one of two or three in his area. Dreams like those give me hope, and seeing them become a reality make me believe that no matter how insane this world may be, there will always be good and good will win. Doc said the only problem is transporting them to his town. He flies, rides the bus, gets on a ferry and goes by land again. And the books are heavy. So I guess we will have to do it a little at a time. #giftof50 #giftof50foryou #childrenslibrary #booksforThePhilippines #parakayDoc #forThePhilippines #pinay #pinoy #pinaynewyorker
Revelation: Thesauruses are great tools.
I don't really know how to explain this one, but they just are. I love them
Thesauruses are your friends
For instance, how many words can you think of that mean 'write'?
thesauruses are fucking great for finding that perfect word, but writers who only use thesauruses in an attempt to sound smarter are awful. you can't just enter a generic word and pluck out a fancy-sounding one. that's like bringing shoes into a shoe shop and being like "anything sorta like this BUT FANCY." like dude, you gotta have shoes that FIT.
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Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans
Derek Bickerton
How language evolved has been called “the hardest problem in science.” In Adam’s Tongue, Derek Bickerton—long a leading authority in this field—shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores, and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton produces a dazzling new alternative to the conventional wisdom.
 Language is unique to humans, but it isn’t the only thing that sets us apart from other species—our cognitive powers are qualitatively different. So could there be two separate discontinuities between humans and the rest of nature? No, says Bickerton; he shows how the mere possession of symbolic units—words—automatically opened a new and different cognitive universe, one that yielded novel innovations ranging from barbed arrowheads to the Apollo spacecraft.
 Written in Bickerton’s lucid and irreverent style, this book is the first to thoroughly integrate the story of how language evolved with the story of how humans evolved. Sure to be controversial, it will make indispensable reading both for experts in the field and for every reader who has ever wondered how a species as remarkable as ours could have come into existence.’
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.)
Steven Pinker
In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.
I only use thesauruses to make sure I'm not making connections in my head that won't make sense to anyone else. I wish other people would use them so sparingly.
