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About Paul JJ Payack Paul JJ Payack, President and Chief Word Analyst of the Global Language Monitor is also a founder and former president of yourDictionary.com. Together these two language sites attract some millions of page views a month. Payack taught scientific and technological communications and other forms of expository writing at the University of Massachusetts, and has lectured at the University of Texas, Babson College, and many others including the Federal Reserve Bank, GM/Hughes Aircraft, and the like. (In a previous and parallel life, Payack was a senior executive at three Fortune 500 companies, including Unisys, Dun & Bradstreet, and StorageTek, as well as numerous Silicon Valley startups and re-starts.)  Contact Payack directly: pjjp@post.Harvard.edu. As a word analyst, Payack provides incisive analysis on the global media, words and the impact of language on various aspects of culture, including: the impact of the South Asian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and the death of Pope John Paul II on the global media; Bushisms; the number of words in the English Language; the Rise of Political Correctness; the myth of the 24-hour newscycle; the top technological terms every uses but no one quite understands; the lastest in global youthspeak, and the like.
Paul JJ Payack devised GLM's proprietary algorithm, the Predictive Quantities Indicator (PQI), that helps track the frequency of words and phrases in the global print and electronic media, on the Internet, and throughout the Blogosphere. The algorithm tracks words and phrases in relation to their frequency of use and contextual usage. The PQI is weighted, factoring in long-term trends, short-term changes, and citations in the major media. Payack's creative work involve various aspects of language. These include ‘meta-histories’ that describe the invention of the Zero; essays on the invention of the infinity symbol, the history of chess, and the Ides of March; as well as ‘metafictions’ that describe ‘the Dream-table, ’ ‘the Versificators,’ and ‘Mythomania’. Payack has authored hundreds of what The Paris Review called “prose poems,” The Kansas City Star, “polyphonic prose,” and Contemporary Authors, “metafiction”. Payack’s metafiction has appeared in hundreds of journals, anthologies, and collections including The Paris Review, New Letters, and Boulevard. Payack’s oeuvre currently consists of some thousand creative works. Recent Books by Paul JJ Payack on Amazon.com
Payack was graduated from Harvard University where he studied comparative literature, various dead languages, and fine arts after having studied psychology and philosophy at Bucknell. Payack resides with his wife and family in Southern Nevada. History of GLM: The Global Language Monitor (GLM) documents, analyzes and tracks trends in language the world over, with a particular emphasis upon Global English. GLM is based in San Diego, California and Henderson, Nevada. GLM is incorporated as an LLC. GLM has deep academic and internet roots. GLM's predecessor site, yourDictioanry.com is the direct descendent of Dr. Robert Beard's Web of Online Dictionary at Bucknell University, founded in 1994. In 1999, Paul JJ Payack, joined Dr. Beard and reorganized Web of Online Dictionaries into yourDictionary.com, where Payack was the founding president. YDC assembled the industry's premier advisory council of experts. In 2003 Payack, created the Global Language Monitor to carry on the media analysis functions began at YDC. (For example, YDC was the first to publish its annual Word of the Year WOTY (tm) lists. Dr. Beard continues as president of AlphaDictionary. Worldwide Media The worldwide print and electronic media have come to rely on The Global Language Monitor for its expert analysis on language trends and their subsequent impact on politics, culture and business, including the PQ Index/Indicator, analysis of media coverage of major, worldwide events, the rise of Global English and its march to its 1,000,000th word, the Chinglish Phemomenon, Global yoofSpeak, and many others. |
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