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Word of the Day

impacted
Definition:	Wedged or packed in together.
Synonyms:	wedged

Word of the Day provided by The Free Dictionary

Quote of the Day

There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust. Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC)

Quote of the Day provided by The Free Library

Match Up

Match each word in the left column with its synonym on the right. When finished, click Answer to see the results. Good luck!

Match Up provided by The Free Dictionary

Words are one of the many ways we use to communicate to each other, in our code and in daily life. As programmers, techies, and as human beings, we definitely depend on words when are unable to communicate directly: through our code and our documentation and reports, as well as instant messaging, sms, email, blogs, web pages, ... and even ... hand-written letters.

In speaking we use certain conventions, or habits, so that people can understand us. In code we have to be even more careful because computers are much more stupid than people, and need things to be very clear.

In addition, if we format our code nicely and add comments, it makes it much more useful for those humans who must read it after us — even for ourselves a few weeks later!

After the Deadline - English spell, grammar, and style check

Checks spelling, misused words, style, and grammar using artificial intelligence and natural language processing.

Use as a website, FireFox add-on, WordPress plug-in.

• Try it online (without installing anything): http://www.polishmywriting.com/
• Add-on for Firefox: http://firefox.afterthedeadline.com/
  How to use the Firefox add-on, with video: http://firefox.afterthedeadline.com/proofreading-for-firefox-documentation/
• Plug-in for WordPress http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/after-the-deadline/

Here's a nice article about it, with video - by Matt of WordPress: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/atd-wpcom/

And here's a bonus link for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commonly_misused_English_words Verrrry useful!!

over-complexitizing-lengthifying words

There seems to be a trend in the past few years to make words longer — and harder to say! Is this a good thing?

• strangle has become strangulate
  "Strangulation" is the noun derived from the verb "strangle". Now it seems a verb "strangulate" has been reverse-derived from that noun!
• candidacy, a perfectly good word with a long history of use, has grown to candidature for mysterious and unknown reasons.
• speeding has grown to over speeding
  "speeding" already means "going too fast". You can't be any faster than "too fast"!

dictionaries and word usage guides

Elements of Style, by Strunk & White - the classic

http://www.bartleby.com/141/

Wiktionary

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page

about lengthening words, and "back-formation"

http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/e29.html

A simple explanation of "back-formation".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-formation

A more complex discussion of "back-formation", with examples.

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/b.html

Interesting discussion!

And, for people who are less uptight about language than me: http://neologasm.org/neologasm/backformation/

fun with words!

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