;Posted on 10/03/2016 7:01:02 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word for The Day, Monday, 10/3/16
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
amphiboly; noun
noun, plural amphibolies.
1.
ambiguity of speech, especially from uncertainty of the grammatical construction rather than of the meaning of the words, as in The Duke yet lives that Henry shall depose.
Etymology: 1580-90; < Latin amphibolia < Greek. See amphibolous
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
...hahaha!
Thanks.
“What difference, at this point, does it make, is an amphibole that Clinton used to be sure that her comment couldn’t be edited, such as (at this point) “What difference does it make,” or “What difference does it make” (at this point), which would seem crass!
A++++ I remember him being news when Bill was still in ofc, now he’s grown!
so sad, condolences to you.
A+++ good info!
see your deputy posted above ; )
A+++ oh hill would never dream of being crass, LOL!!
I tend to speak in amphiboly when I get a frog in my throat…
NY Dem AG has shut down Trump Foundation. Nothing political about that......nah, couldn’t be. RME Another hour, another scandal. This election is really crazy.
Not my circus, not my monkeys. Yep, great theme for this election.
A+++ was waiting for an amphibian joke!
there’s an outrage a day.
Amphiboly is just one way
The Clintons use to twist
The grammar of sentences
Until listeners get pissed
Hoping they will tune out
Paying no mind any more
And Bill’s meaning of “is”
Has not been heard before
What he and Hillary ignore
Is so many aren’t that dumb
But then did you expect truth
From that greedy, lying scum?
I will be voting Trump no matter what happens. #NeverHillary
What’s the nationality of these two thugs...
I’m sorry for the loss of your friend-while working on the water lines yesterday, my co-worker and I were reminiscing about our late contractor compadre, how he seemed to have beaten cancer the last time we saw him, but was suddenly dead 2 days later-and how much we still miss him every day more than a year later...
We started working on moving and reinstalling the main water line over the weekend-we have already taken out and replaced the other ones-everything was done with the wrong materials, run all over the place for no apparent reason, etc, so we are putting it in a straight line, with easy access, done the right way with the right materials-with luck I will have water again this weekend and not have to haul it in-I’m getting awfully tired of carrying gallon jugs and buckets-I don’t get why people don’t take care to install something so basic as a water line correctly at their vaca place...
I would guess they are Americans-if you are asking about ethnicity, they look like just about every 3d kid you see here where I live-they could any mostly Caucasian-what does it matter-bad kids are bad kids and need to be punished for vandalism...
I am guessing that blacks beat the woman, filmed by two latinos who were out stealing Trump signs. But isn’t Latino considered white? Thugs are thugs. Whatever their race.
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