This blog is subtitled “A linguistic tour for people who love having fun with words and language.” You’ll find wordplay in cartoons, advertising, and musings of the author.
Showing posts with label Wordplay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wordplay. Show all posts
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Very Short Novels
Don’t have time to read a long novel? Then David B. Dale’s Very Short Novels is the blog for you. Each novel is less than 299 words. As the caption says “Anything more is a waste.”
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Wordle
I LOVE WORDLE! You can take any piece of text – short story, book chapter, letter, email, etc. – and create a word cloud by copying and pasting the text into a box and submitting it. Your word cloud appears quickly showing all of the words in your piece, sized according to the number of times they appear. There are hundreds (perhaps thousands?) of variations of clouds that you can make. Here are four variations of the first chapter of the latest revision of my middle grade novel:
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