Comments on: Life of Riley Week 7 http://www.dyers.org/blog/archives/2007/07/22/life-of-riley-week-7/ Helping You Through Right Now Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:00:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: n0ia http://www.dyers.org/blog/archives/2007/07/22/life-of-riley-week-7/#comment-25418 n0ia Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:05:05 +0000 http://dyers.org/blog/archives/2007/07/22/life-of-riley-week-7/#comment-25418 Hmm, use "as" instead? Your new vocabulary can be as a beautiful new butterfly emerging from a raccoon, I mean, cocoon. Actually, that's a simile, right? Hmm, use “as” instead?

Your new vocabulary can be as a beautiful new butterfly emerging from a raccoon, I mean, cocoon.

Actually, that’s a simile, right?

]]> By: Jon http://www.dyers.org/blog/archives/2007/07/22/life-of-riley-week-7/#comment-25367 Jon Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:21:34 +0000 http://dyers.org/blog/archives/2007/07/22/life-of-riley-week-7/#comment-25367 If I like strike like from my vocabulary, how will I like, you know, ever use metaphors again? If I like strike like from my vocabulary, how will I like, you know, ever use metaphors again?

]]> By: n0ia http://www.dyers.org/blog/archives/2007/07/22/life-of-riley-week-7/#comment-25354 n0ia Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:13:43 +0000 http://dyers.org/blog/archives/2007/07/22/life-of-riley-week-7/#comment-25354 I think it takes a certain person to be able to have self revelations on what words they use too often. I posted about some phrases I use way too often - and bringing it to my own attention was really all it took to strike those phrases nearly 100% from my vocabulary (sidenote: is a phrase part of one's vocabulary? or is it just the individual words? hmmm.) When I get home I'm definitely going to go d/l the Marsalis album. Thanks for linking to that! And agreed, kids can be complete monsters when they're tired. My son can be pretty cranky, and a lot of times it requires me putting him in his crib for about 15 minutes and let him scream and cry, and then I go in there and rock him to sleep - of course, he's only 16 months old and I'm not sure how old the kids are that you were babysitting. But I sympathize. I think it takes a certain person to be able to have self revelations on what words they use too often. I posted about some phrases I use way too often - and bringing it to my own attention was really all it took to strike those phrases nearly 100% from my vocabulary (sidenote: is a phrase part of one’s vocabulary? or is it just the individual words? hmmm.)

When I get home I’m definitely going to go d/l the Marsalis album. Thanks for linking to that!

And agreed, kids can be complete monsters when they’re tired. My son can be pretty cranky, and a lot of times it requires me putting him in his crib for about 15 minutes and let him scream and cry, and then I go in there and rock him to sleep - of course, he’s only 16 months old and I’m not sure how old the kids are that you were babysitting. But I sympathize.

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