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New Afrikaans thesaurus result of more than 20 years’ work

"Afrikaans is as alive as never before, it grows, it surges and it growls, it struggles, but it grows all the time, literally every day."

🔗 https://www.su.ac.za/en/day-in-the-life/node/5335

#Afrikaans #Language #Thesaurus #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon

New Afrikaans thesaurus result of more than 20 years’ work

“Afrikaans is as alive as never before, it grows, it surges and it growls, it struggles, but it grows all the time, literally every day."

Stellenbosch University

Dining and Cooking May 7

The Role of Women in Hitler’s Third Reich

NARRATOR: Beautiful and useful – in Hitler’s Reich of men, the role of women is firmly established. Even for girls, watchwords are loyalty, duty, sacrifice. For millions, membership in the Federation of German Girls, the fem…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #GermanWine #britannica #dictionary #encyclopaedia #Encyclopedia #Germanwine #Online #Reference #store #thesaurus #Wine
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2632497/the-role-of-women-in-hitlers-third-reich/

Wine May 7

The Role of Women in Hitler’s Third Reich

NARRATOR: Beautiful and useful – in Hitler’s Reich of men, the role of women is firmly established. Even for girls, watchwords are loyalty, duty, sacrifice. For millions, membership in the Federation of German Girls, the female Hitler Youth, is co…
#wine #GermanWine #britannica #dictionary #encyclopaedia #Encyclopedia #Germanwine #Online #Reference #store #thesaurus #Wine
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2632497/the-role-of-women-in-hitlers-third-reich/

IndieAuthors.Social News May 6

5 Techniques for Showing a Character’s Suppressed Emotion

Today’s guest post is by Becca Puglisi. Character emotion, when written well, links directly to reader empathy. Why? Because when...
The post 5 Techniques for Showing a Character’s Suppressed Emotion appeared first on C. S. Lakin.
https://www.livewritethrive.com/2026/05/06/5-techniques-for-showing-a-characters-suppressed-emotion/

#Fiction #BeccaPuglisi #Fear #thesaurus

5 Techniques for Showing a Character’s Suppressed Emotion

Explore how characters express emotions to connect with readers. Uncover the importance of authentic feeling in storytelling.

C. S. Lakin

Eurovision News May 5

History of the Eurovision Song Contest

How Eurovision became the “Olympics for singing” The first Eurovision was held on May 24, 1956, in Lugano,…
#Eurovision #britannica #dictionary #encyclopaedia #encyclopedia #EurovisionSongContest2026 #online #reference #store #thesaurus
https://www.europesays.com/europe/31451/

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Simon Ljungberg Apr 27

@bjoreman (They took longer to write then I am going to admit #thesaurus)

Carryl Apr 27

Editing the fanfic, I searched for how many times people, mostly Gabe, have sighed and frowned. And others, but those are the most used. Nearly 30 times for one of them which seems excessive even in 7,500 words.

Phrases like “set their jaw” seem clunky and perhaps difficult to imagine, even though they do that in the tv show, it’s quite different in writing.

Thesaurus website gave me a few options, but asking DuckDuckGo (aka googling, I just embraced the Duck a while ago), and I struck gold. Swathes of alternatives and not even in paid ebooks, just there on the page. I’m in love.

Now not to overdo all the different words for similar things. The repetition might be easier to read than being yanked all over the place. I remove some and add a little to the dialogue eg “heh” rather than “they laugh”. But then I feel my dialogue does on and on with little mention of expression and action.

https://kathysteinemann.com/Musings/expressions/

#writing #words #synonyms #thesaurus