The Painted Word: A Treasure Chest of Remarkable Words and Their Origins By Phil Cousineau

e words that have been used in English literature or other English language media but which are of foreign origin I ll include a few of the words that captured my own interest Autologophagist one who eats his her own wordsBafflegab language that misleads intentionally or notCataphile a lover of catacomb crawlingInkhorn an over intellectualized wordLambent shining with soft light on the surface of somethingMillihelen the amount of beauty that would result in the launch of a single ship. Who wrote the book what is painting Oculogyric eye rollingPhlug belly button lintSnollygoster a shrewd but corrupt politicianUbantu Bantu Xhosa the interconnectedness of all thingsThis book is full of fun insights and statements I learned that hush puppies were literally carried to throw to noisy dogs to get them to stop barking There are many interesting and humorous quotes For example.

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Phil Cousineau is a writer teacher editor independent scholar documentary filmmaker travel leader and storyteller The author of than 30 nonfiction books Cousineau has than 15 documentary screenwriting credits to his name including the 1991 Academy Award nominated Forever Activists His life long fascination with art literature and the history of culture has taken him on many journeys around the world one of his bestselling books is The Art of Pilgrimage inspired by his many years of meaningful travels Born in an army hospital in Columbia South Carolina Cousineau grew up in Detroit and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 30 years American mythologist Joseph Campbell was a mentor and major influence C Phil Cousineau is a writer teacher editor independent scholar documentary filmmaker travel leader and storyteller The author of than 30 nonfiction books Cousineau has than 15 documentary screenwriting credits to his name including the 1991 Academy Award nominated Forever Activists His life long fascination with art literature and the history of culture has taken him on many journeys around the world one of his bestselling books is The Art of Pilgrimage inspired by his many years of meaningful travels Born in an army hospital in Columbia South Carolina Cousineau grew up in Detroit and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 30 years American mythologist Joseph Campbell was a mentor and major influence Cousineau wrote the documentary film and companion book about Campbell s life The Hero s Journey The omnipresent influence of myth in modern life is a thread that runs through all of his work He lectures frequently on a wide range of topics from mythology film and writing to sports creativity travel art and beauty Currently he is the host of the much praised inner travel television series Global Spirit on Link TV and PBS and is finishing a book on beauty site_link Such a fascinating book Paperback The Painted Word is a collection of interesting words with definitions insight into each word s origins and evolution and interesting or humorous usages These aren t all GRE words massive and mostly useless words that have little value beyond impressing admissions committees Many of the words will be familiar to readers without huge vocabularies On the other hand there will be words that are new to even New York Times crossword puzzle solvers As the title suggests there s a little bit of an art related theme However I m not sure I would have noticed this if it hadn t been for the title There are a number of colors included among the words colors known mostly to interior decorators and not to most heterosexual men There are also a few artistic styles e. Book the painted drum g intimism However the bulk of the words aren t clearly related to the fine arts Many of the entries are loan words Brendan Behan said Critics are like eunuchs in a harem they know how it s done they ve seen it done every day but they re unable to do it themselves Brief vignettes are used to help give depth of understanding to words One such story is about a Luddite looking upon the operation of a steam shovel who said to his friend Were it not for that steam shovel there would be work for hundreds of men with shovels to which his friend replied or thousands of men with teaspoons I enjoyed this book You don t have to be fascinated by the minutiae of semantics to find it readable and interesting It s not as much like reading a dictionary as one might suspect Paperback It s an intriguing book for curious person and an irresistible one for a word lover I m both Therefore I have no choice but to recommend it However even when sometimes there were words I saw nor rhyme nor reason to be there I could move on and find something interesting to justify my curiosity I was totally rewarded in finding dozens of lovely quotes and best of all two definitions that have a lot to do with me and I didn t even know that there was a word for it even though I m not an English native speaker I m talking about the concept I didn t know that these feelings were defined One of them is abibliophobia the fear of running out of reading material Isn t it terrifying The other one is pseudomnesia the memory of things that never happened This is not about invented memories something that someone puts in your mind so that you will have say a history of some trauma I m not delving into that I m talking about forgetting some bad experiences and imagining that all you had in life was a fairy tale Kind of a photoshopped life if you will I love words always did In the end the author mentions a quote by Patrick Kavanagh let words laugh and gives us a few funny words But I know that words can also cry and I don t mind because if words can bring us sadness they can bring us beauty joy amazement a whole world Paperback Very nice readable book Good for jumping around or reading straight through I appreciate and share the authors love of words I now know a lot about a lot words Paperback 3. Who wrote the book what is painting 5The problem with books like this are that they can be too much of a good thing and so have to be extraordinary in order for me to go much beyond three stars While I enjoyed this I thought it was a little disjointed The companion words often didn t make a lot of sense in context of the rest of the entry for a word and I would have liked a little etymology and a lot less meandering through quotes I read the e book version in which the pictures are gray scale and I didn t feel like they added much to the book Maybe they are in color in the print version That might make them interesting So a fun read especially read a few entires at a time but not different enough from similar books or the author s other books to go into four or five star territory Paperback To untangle the knot of interlocking meanings of these painted words logophile and mythologist Phil Cousineau begins each fascinating word entry with his own brief definition He then fills it in with a tint of etymology and a smattering of quotes that show how the word is used ending with a list of companion words The words themselves range from commonplace like biscuit a twice baked cake for Roman soldiers to loanwords including chaparral from the Basque shepherds who came to the American West words from myths such as hector metamorphosis words like silly which evolved holy to goofy in a mere thousand years and words well worthy of revival such as carrytale a wandering storyteller Whether old fangled or brand new all the words included in The Painted Word possess an ineffable quality that makes them luminous A mytagogue a carrytale and a thaumaturge Cousineau makes us Argus eyed to the ubuntu of the aprocryphal and Gemutlichkeit it provides and if you don t know what I m talking about then you definitely need this book Lemony Snicket The Painted Word A Treasure Chest of Remarkable Words and Their OriginsSuch a clever book that is a non stop page turner due to the curiosity that sparks from learning the roots of common words to words you d never knew to use but now you want to stuff them into every sentence Paperback I want to own this book It s a reference than literature but each description of of word is experiential with both etymological and personal history of its use woven in It feels like sitting down with a twinkly eyed scholar who just wants to tell you about some of their favorite things Having taken this out of the library I didn t want to rush through or deprive other readers so I think it s something to own To pick up every day for a touch of whimsical beauty Paperback This book is really interesting I really enjoyed learning the origins of these words It makes for interesting dinner party conversations too I did skip over a few the foreign language entries didn t really interest me There were several words in here that I had never heard before so I definitely learned a lot from reading this book I have its sequel also The Painted Word A Treasure Chest of Remarkable Words and Their Origins and look forward to reading it sometime Paperback A gem of a book it takes me back to Sunday dinners as a child of two English majors Paperback I just read a dictionary of words with their origins I ve read dictionaries from A to Z in the past and this activity is fascinating It s meaningless because you forget 95% of the words right away but once you start you can t stop until you reach the last letter Of course the 5% of stories that you remember are the stories you tell: The painted world poster Monogashi Japanese the sigh or sadness of thingsSonicky A great sounding word coined by Roy Blount Jr, Religion spirituality the painted word of god Off topic I wanted to read another book with the same name but got the wrong one Paperback.

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