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Food for Thought - December 1999 Extra

A MUST-READ! Vocabula Review's latest edition. It covers e-books and language with breathtaking scope. Controversial? Absolutely. Stimulating reading? Yes! Don't miss this superb publication. And if you have comments after having read the issue, write the publisher. http://vocabula.listbot.com/

Elaine Garvin, Artist at http://www.elainegarvin.com illustrates children's books and magazines, as well as greeting cards, and more. A mutual friend in Alaska introduced us via e-mail, and I discovered after visiting her site that she also lives in the Greater Phoenix area.

Garvin says she does much of her work in gouache. Hmmm. I paused, then went to my online reference to learn more: Gouache, in art, is a form of watercolor that uses opaque pigments rather than transparent watercolor pigments. Because gouache colors tend to lighten on drying, one gets a wide range of pearly or pastel-like effects. Gouache was first used by the ancient Egyptians and became widely used from the 5th to 15th century for illuminated manuscripts. Extremely popular in the 18th century, it says, gouache has been widely used in the 20th century by artists for modern expressionist effects. Art lesson completed. Garvin's site is well worth a visit.

Stumped? Need answers to unusual questions? STUMPERS-L http://www.cuis.edu/~stumpers/faq.html has some FAQs. To subscribe: To subscribe, email to: mailserv@cuis.edu. In the body of the email write: subscribe stumpers-l

Oops! Apologies to Word Place, the home of Daily Grammar. In the last issue, I omitted a valuable colon in their URL. It should have been http://www.dailygrammar.com

DID YOU KNOW THAT a person who leaves a country emigrates from it? When a French person, for example leaves France, he/she is considered a French emigrant. A person who comes into your country immigrates, and is considered an immigrant. Jacques, a French emigrant, immigrated to Brazil. Leaving/out of: think "em." Arriving/into: think "im."

1. COPYEDITORS LIST - A "MUST" for writers and editors http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/copyediting-l.html
2. DISCOVERING CHINA: THE MIDDLE KINGDOM - Developed by high school students Michael Galduroz (Clovis High School Clovis, California), Yuki Satou (Kanagawa University High School Yokohama, Japan), and Alex Busetto, (The Grove Cape Town, South Africa) for ThinkQuest http://library.thinkquest.org/26469/
3. FREELANCE SUCCESS - http://www.freelancesuccess.com/
4. GRAMMAR SLAMMAR http://www.englishplus.com/grammar/index.htm
5. THE GORILLA FOUNDATION - bringing interspecies communication to the public, in order to save gorillas, and inspire children to create a better future for all species. Modified ASL taught to two lowland gorillas. http://www.koko.org/
6. INSCRIPTIONS - Weekly E-zine for professional writers http://www.inscriptionsmagazine.com/
7. MAMA.COM - The Mother of All Search Engines http://www.mamma.com/
8. METOR - Metor is a new search and retrieval system that integrates information from hundreds of databases whose contents can not be reached by traditional search engines. Metor includes specialized databases, archives and catalogs for highly targeted information. Outstanding! http://www.metor.com/
9. SPARK NOTES - online Study Guide: Harvard University students and alumni created this collection of free online study guides to approximately 100 literature classics. http://www.thespark.com/sparknotes/

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