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Post by Gorf on May 10, 2004 8:46:27 GMT -5
How about echolalia?
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2004 9:40:12 GMT -5
Webster's picks the words, doof.
The Word of the Day for May 10 is:
manifesto \man-uh-FESS-toh\ noun : a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer
Example sentence: On her last day at the company, BiK posted an angry manifesto on the bulletin board that outlined her reasons for leaving and blamed George W. Bush for it all.
Did you know? "Manifesto" is related to "manifest," which occurs in English as a noun, verb, and adjective. Of these, the adjective, which means "readily perceived by the senses" or "easily recognized," is oldest, dating to the 14th century. Both "manifest" and "manifesto" derive ultimately from the Latin noun "manus" ("hand") and "-festus," a combining form that is related to the Latin adjective "infestus," meaning "hostile." Something that is manifest is easy to perceive or recognize, and a "manifesto" is a statement in which someone makes his or her intentions or views easy for people to ascertain. Perhaps the most famous statement of this sort is the Communist Manifesto, written in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to outline the platform of the Communist League.
The most famous Festus, of course, was on Gunsmoke.
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Post by vierra on May 10, 2004 13:03:17 GMT -5
Example sentence: On her last day at the company, BiK posted an angry manifesto on the bulletin board that outlined her reasons for leaving and blamed George W. Bush for it all. Didn't Jerry Maguire do that on the last day of work when he put up his Mission Statement, prompting the Renee Zellweger to follow him? "You had me at 'Hello'."
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2004 15:20:13 GMT -5
I believe you are thinking of Martin Luther. And I don't think Renee Zellweger was around, but who knows?
"Show me the monkey!" Martin would shout, causing Renee (or whoever it was) to giggle and the priests to wonder what the Hell he was talking about.
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Post by Barefoot In Kailua on May 10, 2004 15:29:16 GMT -5
Example sentence: On her last day at the company, BiK posted an angry manifesto on the bulletin board that outlined her reasons for leaving and blamed George W. Bush for it all. Doof!
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Post by vierra on May 10, 2004 16:33:56 GMT -5
That Martin Luther. What's he doing now? Seems I hardly heard from the fella since winning the Best Supporting Oscar for "Ed Wood."
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2004 1:48:37 GMT -5
As long as I'm up anyhow.
The Word of the Day for May 11 is:
hackneyed \HAK-need\ adjective : lacking in freshness or originality
Example sentence: BiK's early attempts at poetry were filled with singsong rhymes and hackneyed expressions, but then she met Frank and her life changed forever.
Did you know? "Hackney" entered the English language in the 14th century as a noun. Some think perhaps it came from "Hakeneye" (now "Hackney"), the name of a town (now a borough) in England. Others dispute this explanation, pointing to similar forms in other European languages. The noun "hackney," in any case, refers to a horse suitable for ordinary riding or driving -- as opposed to one used as a draft animal or a war charger. When "hackney" was first used as a verb in the late 16th century, it often meant "to make common or frequent use of." Later, it meant "to make trite, vulgar, or commonplace." The adjective "hackneyed" began to be used in the 18th century and now is a common synonym for "trite."
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Post by vierra on May 11, 2004 2:34:29 GMT -5
The word "hackneyed" and your example sentence reminded me of me high school days. I used to love them poetry and wrote some of my own, if you'll let me share. At the time, I thought they were quite peachy. Typed them up one by one in 4x6 cards. Illustrated them with drawings colored with markers. For heads, I cut up my real photos and pasted them onto my cartoon bodies. So, picture this: cartoonish bodies with my (and other) photo heads glued on. Very ghastly. A year later, when I got better at poetry, I reviewed my old work and realized what rubbish they were. The gents and I had a good laugh about it at the club. Sent them off to Yale, I did, in my application papers and the Head of Admissions replied, "We have a bet going on at the office. Some of us think you were quite serious with your poetry but with so little talent, they seemed hackneyed, while others think you were deliberately creating really bad poetry as a sort of parody, as expressing your distaste for 18th Century English poems by taking some jabs at them. Well, we want to know: which is it?" I cried and cried. How could they not appreciate art! Well, the bloody fools admitted me anyway but I told the spinsters I wanted to study engineering, not your English Literature crap. How dare they insult me! Never liked New Haven in the winter. And it's quite a dangerous city, really you know.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2004 9:07:45 GMT -5
The Word of the Day for May 12 is:
imbibition \im-buh-BIH-shun\ noun *1 : the act or action of drinking 2 : the act or action of taking in or up : absorption
Example sentence: The sign at the entrance to the building stated that the imbibition of alcoholic beverages on the premises was prohibited, but BiK was too drunk to notice.
Did you know? Joseph Thomas James Hewlett was a 19th-century English curate and schoolmaster who supplemented his insufficient income by writing novels. In _Parsons and Widows_, in which the author disguises himself as "the Curate of Mosbury," Hewlett provided us with the first known use of "imbibition" to refer to a person's drinking, in the phrase "imbibition of a little strong beer." Until then, "imbibition" had been used scientifically to refer to various processes of soaking and absorption, or figuratively, to the taking in of knowledge. (The word is still used scientifically today to refer to the taking up of fluid.) All senses of "imbibition" are based on Latin "imbibere," a verb whose meaning "to drink in" includes absorption of liquids, consuming drink, and appropriating ideas.
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
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Post by vierra on May 12, 2004 12:27:59 GMT -5
You example did not indicate whether BIK was male or female, a break from your previous habit of associating the object of your affection with the female sex.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2004 13:09:31 GMT -5
I don't write these things, I tell you. Bring it up with Webster.
And so what if BiK is the object of my affections?
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2004 0:49:44 GMT -5
The Word of the Day for May 13 is:
disingenuous \dis-in-JEN-yuh-wuss\ adjective : lacking in candor; also : giving a false appearance of simple frankness : calculating
Example sentence: "I swear I'll be back with the money," BiK assured the cashier with a disingenuous expression, an expression that in no way appeared to be feminine or even quasi-male.
Did you know? Today's word has its roots in the slave-holding society of ancient Rome. Its ancestor "ingenuus" is a Latin adjective meaning "native" or "freeborn" (itself from "gignere," meaning "to beget"). "Ingenuus" begot English "ingenuous." That adjective originally meant "freeborn" (as in "ingenuous Roman subjects") or "noble and honorable," but it eventually came to mean "showing childlike innocence" or "lacking guile." In the mid 17th-century, English speakers combined the negative prefix "dis-" with "ingenuous" to create "disingenuous," meaning "guileful" or "deceitful."
The bastards.
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Post by Gorf on May 13, 2004 9:35:45 GMT -5
How about waysgoose as a WOTD sometime?
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2004 11:03:06 GMT -5
How about you stop sending me suggestions?
E:mail Webster's, Goof.
How's this for the word of the day?
DENSEASABRICK!
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Post by Gorf on May 13, 2004 11:39:44 GMT -5
How about you stop sending me suggestions? E:mail Webster's, Goof. How's this for the word of the day? DENSEASABRICK! Make it THICKASABRICK, then we might be able to get a personal appearance from Jethro Tull to sing out the daffynition.
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