{"id":51,"date":"2005-05-30T21:58:30","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T05:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/?p=51"},"modified":"2005-06-01T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2005-06-01T23:51:40","slug":"visual-thesaurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/visual-thesaurus\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Thesaurus?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A company called ThinkMap has invented a Visual Thesaurus<\/a>, a kind of road map of word meanings — with word dots linked by straight lines.<\/p>\n

It’s looks useful, practical, efficient, usable, but my online trial lasted two lookups which is hardly enough to demonstrate its usefulness. (Oops, apparently the trial limits the daily uses to two.)<\/p>\n

There’s another catch for me, at least. The language is very British, both in written and spoken forms. (There is an audio pronunciation feature. But because I’m American, I really don’t speak like that.) Then, too, a synonym for dessert is “afters.” Say what? Again, this is British English. It might help me translate British to American English.<\/p>\n

It found “copywriting” was related to “copy editing” as well as “typewriting, ” and distantly “employee.” (This last word looks like a full day’s drive from “copywriting.”)<\/p>\n

As Truman Capote said<\/a> of Jack Kerouac’s work: “That’s not writing, that’s typing.” (I don’t view “typewriting” as a close synonym of “copywriting.”)<\/p>\n

I will consider this as a possible addition to my huge Synonym Finder<\/a> by J.I. Rodale. The Visual Thesaurus may equal Rodale, but I don’t think it can beat that dog-eared old friend.<\/p>\n

Prices?<\/a> The online version of the new product is $20 a year or $3 a month; the product on your desktop with no internet connection needed is $30. At those prices, it is worth trying out, if<\/strong> you live in the UK or want to talk as if you do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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