10 BÜCHER, DIE MIT «VERBICIDE» IM ZUSAMMENHANG STEHEN
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LECTURE ON VERBICIDE — BY A MAN OF THE LAW. Young Gentlemen: —
Verbicide, from verbum a word, and coed« I kill — the killing of a word, anglieS,
punning — is of three kinds : to wit, (.justifiable; 2. excusable; and 3. felonious, ...
Monthly literary register, 1826
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Monthly Magazine and British Register
Young Gentlemen: — Verbicide, from verbum a word, and coed* I Iri/I — the
killing of a word, anglici, punning — is of three kinds : to wit, J. justifiable ; 2.
excusable ; and 3. felonious, or wilful and malicious. Justifiable verbicide, as the
definition ...
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C. S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy
38 Here, in The Green Book, we are being encouraged to commit verbicide, or "
the murder of a word," something that Lewis warned against in his Introduction to
Studies in Words. Verbicide happens by inflation, such as when we abandon ...
Verbicide, the murder of a word, happens in many ways. Inflation is one of the
commonest; those who taught us to say awfully for 'very', tremendous for 'great',
sadism for 'cruelty', and unthinkable for 'undesirable' were verbicides. Another
way ...
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Make a Zine!: When Words and Graphics Collide
Verbicide: When Verbicide was earning twice as much moneyinadsales, I was
puttingitallback into the magazine. Verbicide was frequently between 80
and88pages, which costs a lot more than 48 pages, which we are currently at
and can ...
Bill Brent, Joe Biel, 2008
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An Encyclopedia of Swearing: The Social History of Oaths, ...
As Samuel Beckett wrote in Waitingfor Godot, “The air is full of our cries, but habit
is a great deadener” (1959, 91). H.L. Mencken put it characteristically: “All
expletives tend to be dephlogisticated by over-use” (1963, 399). Verbicide was
coined ...
In Milton's poetic phrase, the cases in which the Supreme Court has committed
verbicide upon the Constitution have become as "thick as autumnal leaves that
strow the books of Vallombrosa."2o The number and variety of these cases make
it ...
Of course any man is entitled to say he prefers the poems he makes for himself
out of his mistranslations to the poems the writers intended. I have no quarrel with
him. He need have none with me. Each to his taste. 1537 Verbicide, the murder ...
Clive Staples Lewis, Wayne Martindale, Jerry Root, 1989
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A Writer's Coach: The Complete Guide to Writing Strategies ...
Verbicide You can destroy the life in any piece of writing by gutting its verbs.
Some crooks break into a building? Hey! You can write that “the suspects gained
entry by damaging the facility.“ Sooner or later dull writers stumble across an ...
The verbicide in Vietnam may have been connected to the herbicide practiced
there. In 1970, a U.S. “Task force” observed that it was “an almost hopeless task”
to learn what the South Vietnamese thought of the American “presence” because
...
10 NACHRICHTEN, IN DENEN DER BEGRIFF «VERBICIDE» VORKOMMT
Erfahre, worüber man in den einheimischen und internationalen Medien spricht und wie der Begriff
verbicide im Kontext der folgenden Nachrichten gebraucht wird.
West Coast CDs run the gamut
Current single is Verbicide.Fake Shark hits the road to promote its Cheap Thrills single and has a Vancouver date, Oct. 2.Dralms has released the title track from ... «The Province, Aug 15»
Singer/Songwriter Jennifer Greer to Release Fourth Album 'Hey Tide …
... won Best Adult Alternative CD 2005 from The Muse's Muse and landed her recognition for Best Unsigned Pop Artist 2008 from Verbicide Magazine. Greer was ... «Broadway World, Jul 15»
Deacon Keith Fournier: The Progressives of this Age Are Not …
The misuse of the word progressive is an example of what the late great C.S. Lewis called verbicide. He warned of so called progressive governing schemes ... «Catholic Online, Dez 14»
Euphemisms: Words that disguise reality and trivialise naked truth
The linguist Geoffrey Hughes calls it "verbicide". We would rather "provide greater assistance to the poor" than "spend on welfare". Minerals are extracted rather ... «The Age, Dez 14»
Uncluttering the House of the Mind
Fourth: Try not to commit “verbicide.” This is a term I borrow from C.S. Lewis, the British novelist and Christian writer, who in his “day job” as a literature professor ... «First Things, Jun 14»
SoundCHECK: Ben and Joe Brewer launch Super Sick Records
BACK in November I wrote with tongue-in-cheek (deadly serious) animosity in this very column about the wanton verbicide of the word "sick". Let me remind you: ... «North Devon Journal, Mai 14»
We're writing some science fiction — in only six words!
We were big fans of the stories you wrote us last time, whether you were riffing on the theme itself ("Post Verbicide, only six words remained." — ManhackMan) ... «io9, Feb 14»
Montclair teen could be the future of rock journalism
His work has appeared in Point Blank, Verbicide, The Culture Whore, and others. Crowe has since befriended Zeger, sending him advice on music journalism, ... «NorthJersey.com, Dez 13»
Belinda Jack on cliché, the nemesis of thought
C. S. Lewis inveighed against the practice of verbicide – or the killing of words – a concept that was first proposed in the middle of the 19th century. Of course ... «Times Higher Education, Nov 13»
What would 12 dead rock stars look like today?
Alternative news site Verbicide revealed on Thursday digitally-altered likenesses of 12 musicians who burned out rather than faded away. The result of a joint ... «DigitalJournal.com, Nov 13»
