MetaFilter posts tagged with words and writing

a selcouth galimatias

nickyskye — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:33:36 -0800

International House of Logorrhea, at The Phrontistry, a free online dictionary of weird and unusual words to help enhance your vocabulary. Generous language resources, 2 and 3 letter Scrabble words l The Compass DeRose Guide to Emotion Words l all kinds of glossaries for color terms, wisdom, love and attraction, scientific instruments, manias and obsessions, feeding and eating, carriages and chariots, dance styles and all kinds of fun word stuff. Previously and previously.

"Telescopic Text"

dobbs — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:30:30 -0800

I made tea. {Flash, I think. Via notcot.}

silver, orange, purple, month

blue_beetle — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:27:26 -0800

Write Rhymes : As you write, hold the alt key and click on a word to find a rhyme for it...

blah blah baby shoes blah

dersins — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:11:23 -0800

Six word memoirs: too short for

Eikanji

Talvalin — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:09:13 -0800

28-year-old Tomomi Kunishige has created a new form of Japanese calligraphy, dubbed Eikanji (literally 'english kanji'), which uses the Roman alphabet to represent Japanese characters. Even if you don't study Japanese her calligraphy is still worth admiring, though it must be said that some of the paintings involve a fairly relaxed usage. (taken from Mainichi Daily News)

eh?

casarkos — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:43:07 -0800

Words: Woe & Wonder The CBC explains and debates usage from a Canadian-journalism standpoint - for example, why the Iraqi ex-leader is referred to by his first name and whether to capitalize this place.