Metaphors

by Farrah Bostic September 7, 2010 images

Just a quick thought on the subject of how cultures/groups can be defined by common language – and that this common language, especially in the fairly democratic language landscape of English (a bastard, by all accounts), is often demarcated by shared metaphors. I am not a linguist. I am not a sociologist or anthropologist. I [...]

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Singing from the same hymnal

by Farrah Bostic September 5, 2010 stories

While there is no way you would ever find me quoting scripture (I’m wholly unqualified), I did grow up with some of the vernacular of the church-goer. So forgive me these post titles. Came across an interesting note in the New Yorker on the style of reporting/storytelling used in chronicling the Great Migration: that massive [...]

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Saying ‘shibboleth’

by Farrah Bostic August 31, 2010 images

I learned my Bible the old-fashioned way: by watching The West Wing.  It’s high piety and swelling democratic music was my Church of the Capra America. It was, I reckon, the best PR the Clinton Administration ever got, and it taught me a term to describe a trick I have long used.  ”Saying Shibboleth” is [...]

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Why rhetoric should be taught in schools

by Farrah Bostic August 30, 2010 images

Ah! A mini Battle of the Sexes! Fun! Let’s try to get the timeline from the weekend straight: The Wall Street Journal posts an article about the lack of women as start-up founders, etc. and notes the emergence and growth of organizations dedicated to discovering and backing female talent in the tech and social media [...]

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So, um, what is account planning?

by Farrah Bostic August 26, 2010 creativity

When you’re an account planner, this is the inevitable follow-up question to the essential, “So, what do you do?” As a tag for the role played, it’s remarkably inadequate. If planning modifies account, then it sounds like an account management role. It conjures up media planning for some who work in agencies but don’t have [...]

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