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Root Word Alliteration
The poetic style which repeats a slightly modified root word to emphasize that root word while creating a rhyme.
Examples of "root word alliteration" are, "love—that unexplainably still unexplained phenomenon which in this era of perfection still makes the world go round—appears to take on a life of its own to grow and is irrefutably known to quickly deactivate reason in order to satisfy one or both lover's needs." And "It's better to be safe than sorry," said a tax-collector to a tax-evader who worked as a stocks and bond trader and wrestled against alligators."
Root Word Alliteration by but for October 25, 2017
Positive Articulation
Selecting words to express an idea in a positive way conscious that doing so will engender positive consequences.
The chairman of the board asked the speech writer to write the announcement using positive articulation instead of the negative articulation she,—for unexplained reasons—had used. The managers were surprised to see that she worded the announcement as she did, wondered if he was a saboteur, got her fired on-the-spot, and had a different writer write the speech.
Positive Articulation by but for October 25, 2017
Song Time Travel
Reality designer, Oulda Veyin, realized that listening to songs from her teenage years instantly took her brain and body back to those days and that the song time travel's effect lasted for days.
Song Time Travel by but for October 25, 2017
Tonality Science
Carlos was listening to Grand Funk Railroad play "The Loco-Motion" and was amazed by the singer's adroit use of tonality to each time he expressed a word or a few of them in succession convey a message or messages which were quite a little different, complimented, or reinforced the words he sang. He realized tonality was but has not been raised to the level of a science, and coined the term Tonality Science to go in that direction.
Tonality Science by but for October 25, 2017
word-drop
Word-Drop
Expressing a nonessential or unnecessary word in an expression to produce an emotional reaction and mental and physical actions. Comparable to name-dropping.
Expressing a nonessential or unnecessary word in an expression to produce an emotional reaction and mental and physical actions. Comparable to name-dropping.
It was sufficient for the hotel's manager to tell the customer that they "will do everything they can to make her stay as enjoyable as possible." However, before saying "as possible" he said "and stress-free," thereby inserting the notion of "stress" into their brains, which made their brains automatically replay memories of the times they had felt "stress." Though the word "free" after the word "stress" always attempts to create the illusion that it eviscerates all "stress", his word-drop made her presence at the hotel less enjoyable than "as possible." Her intuition told her to find a different hotel and she canceled her reservation. Said differently, pissed-off that the stupid clerk reminded her that "stress" exists, she realized she would be better of finding a different hotel to escape more stupidity she foresaw approaching.
underliving
A substandard way of living in which the individual may be unaware or is fooling himself into believing that he or she is living at the highest or correct level.
Underliving is usually a consequence of factors such as ignorance, mental blocks, emotional disturbances, trauma, a lack of imagination, the habit of underliving, having grown-up in a family and/or neighborhood where most people underlived, the lack of good examples and role models, and other foolish reasons such as fear of success.
Because different people have different goals and standards, what one individual may consider to be underliving, another individual may consider to be living correctly, thus well.
Overall, compared to Americans and people in other highly (materially) highly developed nations, approximately 90% of the people who live in developing nations can be said to be underliving. Some Americans also underlive.
The Ph.D. candidate realized that he was not eating and dressing as well as he could afford to because he was stuck in the habit of underliving.
Because different people have different goals and standards, what one individual may consider to be underliving, another individual may consider to be living correctly, thus well.
Overall, compared to Americans and people in other highly (materially) highly developed nations, approximately 90% of the people who live in developing nations can be said to be underliving. Some Americans also underlive.
The Ph.D. candidate realized that he was not eating and dressing as well as he could afford to because he was stuck in the habit of underliving.
underliving by but for October 23, 2017
obeast
When Yung Ho came from Asia to New York she saw that compared to Asians most New Yorkers were fat, but when she visited Texas she saw that a lot of Texans were obese and some were what her boyfriend called "obeast" (so fat they look like a beast).
"At least they're very happy eating more than their fair share of food—every day!" her Mother said. "Do the math," her cousin said, "if—for example—a woman whose optimum weight is 100- pounds and she's 50-pounds overweight, every day she's gotta eat the amount of food which one-and-a-half people of her optimum weight eat. Do food sellers like fat people? They love them.
"At least they're very happy eating more than their fair share of food—every day!" her Mother said. "Do the math," her cousin said, "if—for example—a woman whose optimum weight is 100- pounds and she's 50-pounds overweight, every day she's gotta eat the amount of food which one-and-a-half people of her optimum weight eat. Do food sellers like fat people? They love them.