stephanieconn has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 1 list, listed 34 words, written 19 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 3 words.
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c, email a username change request (using the email you used to sign up), and the new name you'd like, and I can change it without you having to loose your words and comments from this account.
March 17, 2008
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Hi connarts, welcome, and thanks for the bug report, should be fixed now.
March 12, 2008
Comments by stephanieconn
stephanieconn commented on the word deconstruction
"It seems like in both usages, "dismantle" would work pretty well. "
But @Chained_Bear, no... in the Derridean sense, 'deconstruction' implies not a taking-apart but a proving of elements of an argument to be inherently contradictory or false.
Similarly, as @rolig mentions, taking a house apart is dis-assembling, not deconstructing.
June 14, 2011
stephanieconn commented on the word rubicon
Further examples
Fiona Apple's song, "Better Version of me" (Extraordinary Machine, 2005)begins with the line, "The nickel dropped when I was on my way beyond the Rubicon."
Aimee Mann's song "High on Sunday 51" (Lost in Space, 2002) contains the line, "We have crossed that Rubicon/ The ship awash our rudder gone..."
June 10, 2009
stephanieconn commented on the word euphemism
1656, from Gk. euphemismos "use of a favorable word in place of an inauspicious one," from euphemizein "speak with fair words," from eu- "good" + pheme "speaking," from phanai "speak" (see fame). In ancient Greece, the superstitious avoidance of words of ill-omen during religious ceremonies, or substitutions such as Eumenides "the Gracious Ones" for the Furies (see also Euxine). In Eng., a rhetorical term at first; broader sense of "choosing a less distasteful word or phrase than the one meant" is first attested 1793.
refernce to the martyr, Euphemia
June 9, 2009
stephanieconn commented on the word tenterhooks
Often misused as "Tenderhooks."
June 9, 2009
stephanieconn commented on the word tenterhooks
The compound tenterhook (1480) is "one of the hooks that holds cloth on a tenter." The figurative phrase on tenterhooks "in painful suspense" is from 1748; earlier to be on tenters (1533).
from: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=t&p=6
June 9, 2009
stephanieconn commented on the word habitus
No, surely not? Habitus is not 'habit", it is:
"a set of acquired patterns of thought, behavior, and taste 1. These patterns, or "dispositions," are the result of internalization of culture or objective social structures through the experience of an individual or group."
May 14, 2008
stephanieconn commented on the word multivalency
uh, the latter I think.
March 17, 2008
stephanieconn commented on the user mollusque
argh, thanks for catching my typo on 'multivalency'. I re-posted.
March 17, 2008
stephanieconn commented on the word mulivalency
arrghm yes!!! thanks
March 17, 2008
stephanieconn commented on the word neology
whaaaa? (again)
March 17, 2008
stephanieconn commented on the word features
John
is there a way to change one's username?
If not I might delete my account and start over now before it's too late;)
thanks!
March 17, 2008
stephanieconn commented on the user john
thanks for the fix, Jon!
March 12, 2008
stephanieconn commented on the word problematize
seanahan, I am with you. I didn't say I LIKED these words, or their explanations, ha ha.
March 12, 2008
stephanieconn commented on the word dialectic analysis
ahhhhhh!
"argumentative discourse"
March 12, 2008
stephanieconn commented on the word dialectic analysis
hmn.. if anyone can help out with this one that would be great
March 12, 2008
stephanieconn commented on the word bugs
hmn, I woud love to tag my words or view them as a cloud etc but those links do not work. Are they 'Future Features'?
here is the page: http://wordie.org/lists/13114
thanks!
March 12, 2008
stephanieconn commented on the word intertextuality
n) : the idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written, be it explicit or implicit; the reference to a another, separate and distinct, text within a text
March 12, 2008
stephanieconn commented on the word reify
wha? oh MAN.....
March 12, 2008
stephanieconn commented on the word problematize
To problematize a term, writing, opinion, ideology, identity, or person is to consider the concrete or existential elements of those involved as challenges (problems) that invite the people involved to transform those situations. (Friere (1976) cited in Crotty (1998), p. 155-156)
Problematization is a critical and pedagogical dialogue or process and may be considered demythicisation. Rather than taking the common knowledge (myth) of a situation for granted, problematization poses that knowledge as a problem, allowing new viewpoints, consciousness, reflection, hope, and action to emerge. (ibid)
March 12, 2008