Sexual Language: The Self-Styled Author(ity)
His Web site, A Word with You (http://www.wordwithyou.com) has garnered numerous awards and attracted more then a half million visitors since its inception. It has also inspired two self-published volumes (A Word with You America), one version of which is soon to be published in China. He is currently working on his magnum opus on education, The Once and Future School: The Story of the Y.S.H.S. Paros is an avid crossword aficionado and lover of language. It can be said of him that he never met a word he didn't like…disliking only how some are used. He considers as obscene, profane, rude, or dirty only those words uttered by government spokesmen and commercial hucksters. Paros lives quietly on the periphery of Seattle, Washington with his two cats and a teenage son to whom he is an endless source of embarrassment. |
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Paros is a master teacher whose work in alternative education has received
national recognition; an amateur neuroscientist who has helped design
and market a unique device for the treatment of stress, and a professional
writer, and self-described authority on language. His published works
include numerous articles and a book on education, two earlier books
on language, The Great American Cliché (Workman) and The Erotic
Tongue (Madrona and Holt), and Smashcaps, a children's book
(Avon). He is also a former op-ed page columnist for the Seattle Post
Intelligencer and commentator on KUOW-FM, the NPR affiliate in Seattle.
