Saturday, January 24, 2009

Writing Assignment

Many of my current students have set up their on-line journals and are discovering the fun of blogging. As I read each one each day and offer a comment, I am asked to write the tricky made-up word to verify that I'm not phishing.

Here's the way my mind words: how about collecting all these totally random collections of letters, use them legitimately in writing, and see what happens?

If it's your word, you get to decide the definition and usage, so it could totally perk up an otherwise dull email or blog entry!

I wonder if that's how someone came to start using "twitter" as a form of wireless communication? If you don't know twitter 'n tweets, go to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o]

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