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This word doesn’t mean what you think it does. Go look it up.

Welcome to the first installment of This word doesn’t mean what you think it does. Go look it up.

Today’s word is verbiage. Go look it up.

Avatar photoAuthor Everett GuernyPosted on April 25, 2013January 20, 2014Tags language, this wordLeave a comment on This word doesn’t mean what you think it does. Go look it up.

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Look, friend, Everett Guerny is a Miami copywriter. Big brands, startups, etc. In his idle time, Everett is an experienced eater of food, taker of photos, and has been known to occasionally write a blog post about whatever interests him. That usually turns out to be marketing stuff, tech stuff and, really, whatever else interests him.

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Recent Book Reading

Make Something Wonderful
   by Steve Jobs

Unwinnable Monthly

The American Bystander vol. 30
   ed. Michael Gerber

Jeeves Stories
   by P.G. Wodehouse

Recent Web Reading

  • Nilay Patel: ‘Beware Software Brain’
  • RAM Is the New Bearer Bond
  • Netflix Wrecked Their tvOS Video Player
  • Apple Should Set and Enforce Some Basic Standards for Custom Video Players on tvOS
  • ‘The Window Chrome of Our Discontent’
  • That one XKCD thing, now interactive
  • ssh snakes.run
  • Grandson of Inventor of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Goes Public With the Obvious: They Taste Like Shit Now
  • “Just a little detail that wouldn’t sell anything”
  • An appreciation of Flickr’s URL structure ....

Also Worth Reading

  • Dave Trott
  • Rational Reactor
  • Rubber Ducky Copywriter
  • Seth Godin
  • The Ad Contrarian
  • Tom Chandler

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