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What Is The Best Way To Search The Internet?
The Internet is the worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP).
It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web.
Contrary to some common usage, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not synonymous: the Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks, linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, etc.; the Web is a collection of interconnected documents, linked by hyperlinks and URLs. The World Wide Web is accessible via the Internet, as are many other services including e-mail and file sharing.
Uses:
The internet is an amazing resource that provides quick access to all sorts of information. The amount of information, however, is so vast that being able to find what you are looking for is a daunting task. Search engines are the answer. Our favorite search engine is Google because it does an remarkable job of listing relevant search results.
Tips & Suggestions:
Although Google is powerful and easy to use, here are some tips you can use to get the best results:
•Don't get stuck on one search term or phrase; if your first search does not give you the type of results you are looking for, try different words or different phrases.
•Putting quotation marks around a phrase in the search box requires all resulting pages to include that exact phrase to be located somewhere on the page.
•Keep
Pile It On Word of the Day : exaggerate
This verb, from the Latin verb exaggerare, illustrates how readily figurative meanings develop from literal ones. The word originally meant to pile up or accumulate. Later this developed into "intensify praise or blame." From there it was only a short hop to the current meaning: "enlarge beyond the bounds of truth." It's tempting to suppose a connection with aggregate, congregate, and segregate -- but there is none.
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: July Edition
It's the dog days of summer, but the Visual Thesaurus crossword puzzle should perk you up. Solve it and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!
In Defense of Harding the Bloviator
During my appearance on WNYC's "The Leonard Lopate Show" yesterday to talk about Sarah Palin's much-ridiculed use of the word refudiate, I found myself in the odd position of defending Warren Gamaliel Harding, one of the least admired presidents in American history. In the commentary on Palin, Harding was revived as a point of comparison, particularly for his use of two memorable words: normalcy and bloviate. As I said on the show, I'd argue that Harding has gotten a bad rap on both counts.
Grammar Bite: Snuggling Up to "Only"
Here's a little grammar quiz from Erin Brenner of Right Touch Editing.
Pop quiz time! If I want you to play a song just for me and I don't want you to play it for anyone else, where in my sentence do I put only?
1. Only play me a song.
2. Play only me a song.
3. Play me a song only.
"Refudiate" and Other Accidental Coinages
The dust has settled a bit since last week's Refudiate-Gate, when the blogosphere went into a tizzy after Sarah Palin used the word refudiate in a Twitter update ? and then defended her coinage by likening herself to Shakespeare. Now that we've gotten the predictably overheated reactions from the left and the right out of the way, let's take a look at this particular Palinism with a calmer perspective.
They Blinded Me With Science
Hello, dear "Teachers at Work" readers! I hope all is well, and that you, unlike me, have not yet begun to calculate how many days are left in the summer before school begins again. What can I say? I like to know my limits. But everyone else should chillax, as my students would say, were they not asleep on the beach.
John Cotter, Author of "Under the Small Lights"
I used to play at being a writer.
Afternoons in Boston, in my early 20s, I'd pour three fingers of Black Bush whiskey, feed a page into my typewriter, and surround my desk with books by whoever I was reading then ? Bill Knott, Marguerite Duras ? and add to that bibles and newspapers. I'd open to random pages and write down whatever caught my eye, whatever seemed anachronistic or poignant, then I'd make a hash out of it.
"Mad Men": Capturing the Sound of the '60s
Just in time for Sunday's season premiere of "Mad Men," my latest "On Language" column in The New York Times Magazine considers how authentically the show represents the speech of the 1960s. The creators of the AMC series, led by head honcho Matthew Weiner, are obsessive about getting the details of language right, just like all the other details of the show. But fans can be equally obsessive, on the lookout for the smallest linguistic anachronisms.
Of Celebrations, Observances, and Circular Definitions
Wendalyn Nichols, editor of the Copyediting newsletter, writes:
Recently on the Copyediting blog, I made a comment about Flag Day, saying we celebrated it rather than observed it. This was actually a follow-up to an earlier comment about Memorial Day, when I noted that it was to be observed rather than celebrated.
"Refudiate": The View from Oxford
The blogosphere has been abuzz over Sarah Palin's use of the word refudiate in a Twitter update, apparently mashing up refute and repudiate. Now OUPblog, the official blog of Oxford University Press, weighs in. "Refudiate this, word snobs!" chortles OUP lexicographer Christine Lindberg. Read all about it here (http://blog.oup.com/2010/07/refudiate/).
The Future of Electronic Reading
The Los Angeles Times takes a fascinating look at how electronic reading has the potential to revolutionize the concept of the book. "Books are increasingly able to talk to readers, quiz them on their grasp of the material, play videos to illustrate a point or connect them with a community of fellow readers." Read the article here (http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fiw-0718-reading-20100718,0,1216316,full.story).
Are the Kids "Alright" or "All Right"?
The new film The Kids Are All Right, directed by Lisa Cholodenko, owes an obvious debt of gratitude to The Who, even though the band's music doesn't appear on the soundtrack. The title is lifted from a classic song from The Who's 1965 debut album, which also served as the title of a 1979 documentary about the band. Discerning readers will notice a small but important difference: the song and the documentary were spelled "The Kids Are Alright." Did Cholodenko "correct" The Who's spelling?
Evie Wyld, Author of "After the Fire, a Still Small Voice"
One of the most important moments in writing my novel, After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, came when I realized I could reach outside of reality.
Remembering "The Voice of God"
A great voice was silenced earlier this week with the death of Bob Sheppard, longtime public-address announcer for New York Yankees baseball games and New York Giants football games. Sheppard, who also worked as a speech teacher at the high school and college level in New York, had such a memorable way of announcing players' names that he was fondly known as "the voice of God."
Revising Freedom: Jefferson's Rough Draft
New techniques of "digital archaeology" reveal long-lost secrets about how Thomas Jefferson tinkered with word choice while drafting the Declaration of Independence. University of Illinois linguist Dennis Baron has the full story.
Unlike People, Words Like Labels
Should college students be taught the parts of speech? Writing teacher Margaret Hundley Parker explains why she takes the time to work through this seemingly basic aspect of grammar with her students.
Meet the Dinosaur with "Mojo"
What happens when paleontologists get together for drinks and brainstorm for names of dinosaur species? They come up with Mojoceratops, inspired by the mystical, magical mojo. And with the publication of a paper in the Journal of Paleontology this week, the name is official.
Are You a Drip Who Leaves Writing to the Last Minute?
It was a Friday night and I was sitting at my computer studying Google maps. I had to give a speech to more than 200 people the next morning and ? given my notoriously bad sense of direction ? wanted to be sure I was heading for the right place.
Suddenly, my husband yelled from the basement four words no homeowner wants to hear: "We have a leak."
Rocking the English Language
The latest quarterly update of the Oxford English Dictionary's online revision project covers the alphabetical range Rh to rococoesque, and it includes a fascinatingly complex entry for a seemingly simple word: rock, used as a verb. From the rocking of cradles in Old English sources to the rocking of microphones in rap lyrics, this entry has it all.
Does Spelling Still Matter?
Erin Brenner of Right Touch Editing provides "bite-sized lessons to improve your writing" on her engaging blog The Writing Resource. Here Erin wonders about the fate of spelling in the era of text messaging.
Be Not Afraid to Tackle Social Media
Teachers, are you wary of using social media and other online tools to foster student communication? Follow these tips from Michele Dunaway, who teaches English and journalism at Francis Howell High School in St. Charles, Missouri (when she's not writing best-selling romance novels).
All-American Polypragmatists Get Sprizzlefracked
USA! USA! USA!
Sorry for the chanting and the giant foam finger. I just wanted to establish that this is a thoroughly all-American column and provide a smooth transition to a term that brings together two of my top two interests: euphemisms and dogs.
Realism: The Truth of Fiction
Michael Lydon, a well-known writer on popular music since the 1960s, has for many years also been writing about writing. Lydon's essays, written with a colloquial clarity, shed fresh light on familiar and not so familiar aspects of the writing art. Here Lydon shines a light on literary realism, the style by which writers "make the imaginary real and the real imaginary."
Don't Read This: What Kindle's Highlights Tell Us About Popular Taste
Users of Amazon's e-reader, the Kindle, can not only highlight their favorite passages, they can see what everyone else is highlighting. University of Illinois linguist Dennis Baron ponders the consequences.
The Submodified World
This month in the Language Lounge, we take a look at an underappreciated grammatical category: submodifiers. We hope that by shining the spotlight briefly on the term, we might win over a few converts, as well as alert readers to the nuances of the delightful class of words so designated.
Worst Opening Lines, 2010
In the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, competitors are asked to write incredibly bad opening sentences to incredibly bad novels. The 2010 winner for worst opening line features a comparison to "the world's thirstiest gerbil." Read the whole thing, and the rest of the results, here (http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/).
in mind that most search engines work with AND as the default operator; this means that any words you enter in the search box must exist on the resulting pages (unless you put a hyphen before a word).
•Including a hyphen before a word means that pages that include that word will be omitted from the search results.
•The order of the words you enter into the search box affects results, so try to enter the most important word first.
•If you enter dictionary words, your search terms are listed in the bar below the search box on the results page, and clicking on the word sends you to the definition of the word itself.
•You can enter math equations such as 27/3 and Google will provide the answer.
•You can enter a unit conversion such as 33 Celsius in Fahrenheit and Google will provide the answer.
Perhaps the best tip to getting the most out of the internet is to realize that it is there and to realize the breadth of information that is available. Before the rise of the internet, people were used to going on with their lives without plenty of relevant information. You would go to the movies without knowing where you could find parking, or you would have a discussion about India without knowing the population. Once you realize that there are answers to virtually any question you could possibly have, you can start thinking about the gaps in your knowledge and using the internet to fill them. You can start to focus on the things you don't know about a particular subject and instead of proceeding with ignorance, you can learn and explore.
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