My word is my bond: “Dictum Meum Pactum!”
Meaning, that by just giving my word you can be assured that the promise of action I have just made will be kept.
Originating from the London Stock Exchange since the early 1800s where financial bargains and trades were made with no written pledges, no documents, and no contracts. Reputation was collateral in 19th Century England. Trust was built up and your bank of trust guaranteed you trading opportunities.
I have been publishing new authors and playwrights online for over 15 years. I have made a lot of great friends and it is a delight when one of the authors I originally published finds great success. Saying “Yes” is hard. Saying “No” is easy. I always say “Yes” to a person of great talent and promise even if they later disappoint.
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Owning domain names is one of the few, joyous, pleasures of life. You have an idea. You try to congeal that notion into a memorable .com domain — and you always try to then give those ideas a good home. Today, I am both sad and delighted to share some news with you about my WordPrescience.com domain.
We know “Panopticonic” is not really a word. “Panopticonic” is really a “word” I invented for my Boles Network Blog by the same name. When I started the Panopticonic blog, “Panopticonic” appeared nowhere on the internet and that word failed to return any results in a Google search. I do so love it so, though, when I get a Google Alert in my Inbox showing me that — “Panopticonic” — is being colloquially employed as a “real world” in a real publication like Salon Magazine.
Creating ideas and words can help bring home a brand and emboss meaning in the atmosphere of the internet. When we started this WordPunk blog on August 11, 2007, we were hosted on TypePad and the word — “WordPunk” — really had no divine meaning or intended purpose.
If you’re a word lover, then you’ll go bonkers for the fun and learning you can have with Visual Thesaurus. Just type in your word and you’ll be presented with an associative visual mapping. In the example below, I keyed in “duplicitous” as my base word. The various branches extend the meaning and history of the word with other words. Hover over any of the words in the Visual Thesaurus interactive box and you’ll be presented with extended definitions.
We rely on words to define us. If we try to express a specific condition without the right words attached, we become lost and we are unable to clearly understand each other. While teaching one of my Public Health courses, a group discussion about clinical depression led us into an examination of the word “depression” and how the home cultures of some of the students’ parents did not allow, or define, the concept of “depression” in a serious, medical, sense.
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