Category Archives: communication
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Tolerance, Trousers, and Egyptian Bar Jokes
Leave a commentJune 18, 2022 by libroshombre
International Tolerance Day won’t roll around until November 16, but it’s increasingly obvious we ought to celebrate “sympathy or …
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Conspiracies, Communications, and Truth Sandwiches
Leave a commentApril 29, 2021 by libroshombre
LIBRARIAN COLUMN Contact Greg Hill, 479-4344 April 29, 2021 Michelle Cottle, a member of the NYTimes editorial board, …
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Misconceptions, Carrots, and Snowflakes
Leave a commentFebruary 11, 2021 by libroshombre
“The trouble with the world,” Mark Twain wrote, “is not that people know too little; it’s that they know …
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People, Poetry and Powerhouse
Leave a commentApril 12, 2020 by libroshombre
The people at People Magazine want you to know that February 20 is National Hoodie-hoo Day, when everyone should “step …
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Parrots, Programming, and the Bleeding Edge
Leave a commentSeptember 27, 2016 by libroshombre
Old Alexander Pope was on to something when he described good conversation as “the feast of reason and the …
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Poprocks, Paraprosdokians, and Kindness
Leave a commentFebruary 10, 2015 by libroshombre
Voltaire’s 18th century warning remains valid. “It is dangerous,” he wrote, “to be right in matters on which the established …
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Hormones, Peccadillos, and Other Annoyances
Leave a commentDecember 11, 2014 by libroshombre
One of my favorite hormones was featured in a recent Mental Floss article by Jessica Hullinger titled “6 Fascinating Facts …
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Careful Words, Commas, and CIA Style
Leave a commentSeptember 11, 2014 by libroshombre
Buddha once said, “Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced …
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The Etymology of Soccer, Football, and Ageless Slang
Leave a commentJuly 10, 2014 by libroshombre
The old Scottish poet Allan Cunningham once wrote about a time “when looks were fond and words were few.” That …
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Morphemes, Bashi-Bazouks, and Grawlixes
Leave a commentJanuary 30, 2014 by libroshombre
Libraries, those magnificent repositories of knowledge, are brimming with words of all sorts: written, spoken, sung, and projected. This is …
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