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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 09:06:21 -0500 (EST) From: News of New Electronic Journals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Vocabula Review Vocabula Review http://www.vocabula.com/ Publisher: Vocabula Communications Company Along with the evolution of language - the thousands of neologisms that new technologies and new thinking have brought about, for instance - there has been a concurrent, if perhaps less recognizable, devolution of language. The English language has become more precise for some users of it while becoming more plodding for others. Not a small part of this new cumbrousness is due to the loss of distinctions between words, the misuse of words, and other abuses of language. That a U.S. presidential candidate can cry Is our children learning, an admired basketball star can use the word conversate, a well-known college professor can say vociferous when he means voracious, and another can scold a student for using the word juggernaut because she believes it means jigaboo is disturbing. The Vocabula Review strives to combat the degradation of our language. Equally important, we celebrate its opulence and its elegance. The English language is wonderfully expressive and infinitely flexible. There are many thousands of words and many hundreds of ways in which to use them. The Vocabula Review seeks to promote the richness of our language. In sum, The Vocabula Review battles nonstandard, careless English and embraces clear, expressive English. We hope we can encourage our readers to do as much. The Vocabula Review - not meant to be solely a forum for our prejudices - invites readers to submit articles about issues related to the English language. In the spirit of thoughtful inquiry and personal essays, we wish to encourage writers to submit articles about what they themselves think. Well-written, insightful, creative articles are far more appealing to us than overreferenced, overannotated articles. What's important to us is not what everyone else has ever thought but a clear presentation of one's own thoughts. Today, there are few opportunities for people to enjoy the freedom that comes with writing for oneself and others in a nonacademic way. The Vocabula Review offers one such opportunity. We are also interested in publishing poetry so long as it observes some of the strictures of scansion and musicality. We seek poems that have a palpable form - but not so palpable, obviously, that the structure screams louder than the words sing. We further want poems that insist on being read aloud; their rhythm or rhyme demands they be read out loud. Finally, we seek poetry that shows us something we've not seen before; we want some connection made, perhaps, between things that few have thought to join. Form, music, and insight, then, are what we are looking for. ISSN 1542-7080 Editor and Publisher: Robert Hartwell Fiske The Vocabula Review 5A Holbrook Court Rockport, Massachusetts 01966 United States Telephone: (978) 546-3911 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content available by subscription. Current Issue: Volume 8 No. 11 November 2006 Date: 8 December 2006
