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4. Famous Quotations: Who Said This?
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
(Check your answer at the end of today's article.)
5.La Triviata Culture Quiz
True or false? Dracula's castle, in Transvlvania,Romania, belonged to a real-life Count Dracula known to have a taste for human blood.
(Check your answer at the end of today's article.)
6. Jest Words
"His ignorance was an Empire State Building of ignorance. You had to admire it for its size."
--Dorothy Parker
7.Word-a-Week: wiki (noun)
Meaning: a website that allows visitors to make changes, contributions, or corrections.
(An example of such a site iswww.wikipedia.org.)Wiki is from the Hawaiian language, meaning "quick."At Honolulu airport, passengers can take the "wiki-wiki" shuttle to baggage claim.
Example Sentence
"The corporation has designed a wiki to make collaboration simpler among its employees worldwide."
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Loren Ekroth, Ph.D. is a specialist in human communication anda national expert on conversation for business and social life.
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