Arthur Plotnik
Event:
5:00 p.m.
Barbara's Bookstore at UIC
1218 S. Halsted Street
Chicago
(312) 413-2665
www.barbarasbookstore.com
To purchase a copy of the book:
Better Than Great: A Plenitudinous Compendium of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives
Tips:
Make the commitment -- don't use "amazing" or "awesome" and the like for a week -- at least in writing.
Gather just a dozen alternatives to start; it's enough to break old habits.
Test the words in e-mails, blog-post, tweets, and texts. Enjoy the responses.
Don't worry about sounding strange or unlike yourself; expressiveness is always a risk.
Consider audience and purpose before using fancy words or street slang.
Don't overdo it; one good superlative goes a long way.
A veritable "tko of terminology," Better Than Great is an essential for any occasion to exaggerate or even to aptly describe that which is without peer. Praise challenges us to reveal our passions and powers of expression. Deft praise encourages others to feel as we do, share our enthusiasms. It rewards deserving objects of admiration. It persuades people to take certain actions. It sells things.
Sadly, in this "age of awesome," our words and phrases of acclaim are exhausted, all but impotent. Even so, we find ourselves defaulting to such habitual choices as good, great, and terrific, or substitute the weary synonyms that tuble our of a thesaurus - superb, marvelous, outstanding, and the like. The piling on of intensifers such as the now-silly "super," only makes matters worse and negative modifiers render our common parlance nearly tragic.
Until now.
Arthur Plotnik, the wunderkind of word-wonks is, without mincing, proffering a well knit wellspring of worthy and wondrous words to rescue our worn-down usage. Plotnik is both hella AND hecka up to the task of rescuing the English language and offers readers the chance to never be at a loss for words!
Event:
5:00 p.m.
Barbara's Bookstore at UIC
1218 S. Halsted Street
Chicago
(312) 413-2665
www.barbarasbookstore.com
To purchase a copy of the book:
Better Than Great: A Plenitudinous Compendium of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives
Tips:
Make the commitment -- don't use "amazing" or "awesome" and the like for a week -- at least in writing.
Gather just a dozen alternatives to start; it's enough to break old habits.
Test the words in e-mails, blog-post, tweets, and texts. Enjoy the responses.
Don't worry about sounding strange or unlike yourself; expressiveness is always a risk.
Consider audience and purpose before using fancy words or street slang.
Don't overdo it; one good superlative goes a long way.
A veritable "tko of terminology," Better Than Great is an essential for any occasion to exaggerate or even to aptly describe that which is without peer. Praise challenges us to reveal our passions and powers of expression. Deft praise encourages others to feel as we do, share our enthusiasms. It rewards deserving objects of admiration. It persuades people to take certain actions. It sells things.
Sadly, in this "age of awesome," our words and phrases of acclaim are exhausted, all but impotent. Even so, we find ourselves defaulting to such habitual choices as good, great, and terrific, or substitute the weary synonyms that tuble our of a thesaurus - superb, marvelous, outstanding, and the like. The piling on of intensifers such as the now-silly "super," only makes matters worse and negative modifiers render our common parlance nearly tragic.
Until now.
Arthur Plotnik, the wunderkind of word-wonks is, without mincing, proffering a well knit wellspring of worthy and wondrous words to rescue our worn-down usage. Plotnik is both hella AND hecka up to the task of rescuing the English language and offers readers the chance to never be at a loss for words!
