Vocab People

MARK DIXON is the inventor of Vocab Journalism and writes articles in the languages he creates. He transparently uses the pseudonym Mr. Twist, while Mr. Twist uses the pseudonym Sima Hui on Chinese topics. In other words, Sima Hui is Mark’s ‘pseudonym’s pseudonym’.

He has published several books:

"An Eton Schoolboy's Album" is the story of his schooldays written in the Eton language, which he compiled and utilised but didn’t create or augment.

"Short, and also true, Stories" has no connection with Vocab Journalism at all.

"The Fair Market Economy" deploys Vocab Journalism to create nordsnord

Definition: A word that didn’t exist before it was created by a Vocab Journalist.

Example: “If Vocab Journalism takes off, there’ll be more nords than words.” for some of the new economic and sociological concepts in this manifesto which is about resolving the capitalism-socialism dilemma.

"I am Sima Hui" is a story about a non-Mandarin speaker inventing names in the Mandarin language, and is quite complex enough without subjecting it to Vocab Journalism.

"The Shy Selfie: A day in the life of my shadow" uses Vocab Journalism to create a lexicon of nords that describe an imagined life of human shadows.

"Twisted Lines" is a book of poems that resists the temptations of Vocab Journalism, other than occasionally when a nord is needed to make a poem rhyme.

The article "Me, my selfie and I", published in the Shanghai Daily, uses Vocab Journalism to create nords to mock people taking selfies. This was later expanded to create a more comprehensive lexicon called the Selfish Language.

Beyond writing, Mark is an amateur fashion designer, wine producer, ruin dweller, artist and founder of the corporate political ethics watchdog, the Moral Rating Agency. He lives between London, New York and France.

Mark@VocabJournalism.com