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Browsing Year
If you’ve ever wanted to calculate the nutritional content of your homemade dish, look no further! The Dietitians of Canada’s Recipe Analyzer is one of my favourite online tools to plug in a recipe’s ingredients for a quick way to check out the nutritional statistics. Not only can you know exactly what’s going into your …
I own what I believe to be a fairly well-rounded collection of health books. They vary from diet and nutrition, to cookbooks, to scientific studies, to fitness, to mental health and body image, to observations on human health throughout history. What fascinates me about my collection of several dozen books is that they all share …
…why it isn’t rude to talk to a person across the table from you at a restaurant, but it is rude to talk on your cell phone at a restaurant if you don’t have someone in-person to chat with. …why it is acceptable in society to ask a “young” person what their age is, but …
I got a kick out of this word when I found it. I doubt that any kind of detective would appreciate being called a “gumshoe”. It doesn’t have quite the same pizzazz as “secret agent”, for example. Nor does it carry the same air of impressibility as the title of “detective”. Finding this word reminds …
When I went grocery shopping at the Forks Market last weekend, I saw a sign at the Tall Grass Prairie Bakery that read: All day old bread for $1.50! The sign was posted in front of a stand full of delicious-looking baked goods. I immediately grabbed a bag of whole wheat buns, a loaf of …
While I celebrate the end of exams today, I’m sending you over to read Westwood’s blog. Join in on the philosophical discussions over there. Come back next week when Living Rhetorically in the Real World resumes!
Yesterday was Moving Day for me- the movers arrived and, four hours later, all of my things had been transported from my apartment to my new condo. It’s rather disgusting just how much stuff I own. And I’m not a “stuff” person, either. I used to be a bit of a pack-rat, but several years …
Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen have written an article entitled “Front Pages: Analysis of Newspaper Layout”. Even if you aren’t involved in working with a newspaper, and even if you don’t read the newspaper, you likely see them all over the place and thus have an idea of newspaper layout. The Internet may be …
I came across this word in the dictionary and just started giggling. “Spume”? That can’t possibly be a word, can it? It sounds silly. But I like it. At any rate, it has a more pleasurable definition than “sputum”, which is the word directly across from it in the next column over in my Canadian …
As I clean out my apartment, preparing to move out of it in a couple weeks so that I can move into my new condo, I’ve had to deal with an assortment of items that I’d rather forgotten about. The wine bottle collection is something that I’m not looking forward to getting rid of, due …
As Kenneth Burke once said, and as us rhetoricians are fond of iterating, every act of selection is an act of reflection and also an act of deflection. Every time that we make a statement or an argument, we focus on one thing but neglect something else. This is reflective of our position in life …
Today’s Random Rare Word is brought to you by the boyfriend! He used the word “ingrate” recently (not referring to me, of course…) and I had never heard of it before. He was surprised I hadn’t heard of it and maybe it’s one of those words that is incredibly common but for some reason has …
Why is it that in the word “nihil”, the “ni” is pronounced “nee”, but in the words “nihilism” and “nihilistic”, the “ni” is pronounced “ny”? And why is it that in the word “nihilist”, the “ni” can be pronounced either “nee” or “ny”? The English language is a beautiful, strange, and confusing thing.
We do a lot of peer editing of our work in my Creative Writing class, and it is appalling just how many of my classmates’ stories are written with poor grammar, sentence structure, or a complete lack of coherency, as far as being consistent goes. As a proofreader for the university’s newspaper, one of my …
“Assonance is when you get the rhyme wrong” – Educating Rita If you know anything about literature, or if you are interested in plays about social class differences, or if you are intrigued about the meaning of “culture”, be sure to check out this fantastic play at Winnipeg’s MTC.