Posted on 10/15/2009 4:27:00 AM PDT by secret garden
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".
traduce \truh-DOOS; -DYOOS\, transitive verb
To expose to contempt or shame by means of false statements or misrepresentation; to represent as blamable; to vilify.
Example sentences:
Sir Edward rang twice to stress that he had no business relationship with the family other than his consultancy, but also to vouch for the fact that they were "splendid people" who should not be traduced.
-- Ian Jack, "Generous spirits, secretive souls", Independent, October 17, 1998
I sometimes wonder whether those who traduce today's television have any conception just how much is on offer to the growing number of us with multi-channel television.
-- Peter Bazalgette, "Golden Age? This is it", The Guardian, November 19, 2001
The only problem is that his corrective arguments tend to traduce rationalism as the exclusive preserve of wild-eyed eggheads who only ever spin webs of marvelously useless deduction.
-- Steven Poole, "Et cetera", The Guardian, June 30, 2001Some feared that the superintendent’s decision to reinstate the students would vitiate the authority of the principal who suspended them in the first place.
Etymology:
Traduce derives from Latin traducere, "to lead across, to lead along, to display, to expose to ridicule," from trans-, "across, over" + ducere, "to lead."
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
Rise and shine!
Morning! Am I first? Wow?
Love the word, traduce. It so aptly describes what the puppet pres and his mouth do every time he opens it.
Dang I was really trying to be first.
A for you!
A for you! You still got a ribbon. :-)
Thank you for the Blue Ribbon! Never done that before!
Obama has distorted history to traduce America and his office.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357368/posts#13
I try to make it worth waking up early for the first few students. :-)
And they are fact checking comedy shows instead of zero's speeches. A+ for you.
Welcome to WFTD!
Blinded by the light
Cut loose like traduce
Another runner in the night
Øbama's transparency of leadership is now traduced as an Imperial march without benefit of clothing as the Nobel prize committee has shown him to be all promise and no hope.
i thought that was DOUCHE.
Who can tell anything with that mumbler?
Sorry I wasn’t here at the crack of dawn, I was over on The Happy Hospitalist blog traducing the demise of the physical exam. Residents finishing training in Primary Care these days have forsaken the traditional skills of a physician for high tech:
?Headache - MRI of the head
?Back ache - MRI of the lumbar spine
?Belly pain - CT of the abdomen and pelvis
?Chest pain - Stress Echo
?Cough and congestion - Z-pack.
Jeez! Tinsley Harrison must be spinning in his grave!
The race baiters and Leftist media continue to traduce traditionalsts like Rush Limbaugh, most recently in his case by attempting to inhibit his free exercise of commerce...
Blinded by the light Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night Blinded by the light Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night Blinded by the light Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night Madman drummers bummers Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin' kinda older I tripped the merry-go-round With this very unpleasin', sneezin', and wheezin' The calliope crashed to the ground The calliope crashed to the ground
Springsteen wrote it (and there’s a lot more verses) but it took Manfred Mann’s Earth Band to liven it up into the anthem we all know well.
have you ever dreamt that there was someone standing next to your bed? last night i woke myself up screaming bc i thought there was someone right there. i fell asleep around 10:30, this was like 11:15pm. i wasn’t sure i had screamed aloud or not, but this AM, xshub said, oh, xsfrosh cried out last night around 11:15. i said, no, that was me. He said he heard it from downstairs and came up and xsboy came out of his room across the hall and they went into xsfrosh’s room and turned on the light, but she was sound asleep. so i could have been dead at the end of the hall, murdered in my bed and no one thought to check! LOL!
i saw springsteen wrote it, but i don’t associate it with him at all. one of the text questions on the jumbotron at the Caps game on Sat PM was what was the best thing to come out of NJ. Choices were JonasBros, Springsteen and Sopranos. I would have voted for jobros, were i there. springsteen won. i was never wild for him. but i do like him a tad better than the beatles. can’t stand the beatles.
We’d miss you sooner or later. ;-)
Try searching for the Springsteen version of the song. It’s awful.
and prior to bed, i had been reading about the life of Sir Thomas More, but the HAPPY years, hadn’t yet gotten to the headchopping unpleasantness!
There is a distinction between having a bad dream, which is what it sounds like you had, and having a hallucination coincident with the onset or termination of sleep. I’ve awakened screaming a time or two in the last few years, usually during times of extreme stress. I can imagine how frightening it was, but unless it becomes more common I wouldn’t be worried.
When I was in residency training, the prevalence of bad dreams resulting in crying out or acting out was about 30% among my peer group, about the same as in PTSD. Having Carter as the President didn’t help either.
i have on occasion had that same sensation that there was someone/something right next to the bed, but this was the first time i really felt like i had actually screamed. i felt that little rasp in the throat like you’d have if you screamed hard. xsfrosh did suffer from night terrors when she was little, so i suppose that’s why they honed in on her.
and with obams as president, that % is probably going up across the country!
A+ for the old earworm.
Too true and an A for you.
And what has happened to getting a good history? A for you.
You need to practice screaming in a lower pitch.
My SIL just related to me that my nephew and his friends are now shopping at Goodwill, this is so bizarre to me. xsboy and his friends since the summer have been frequenting the thrift store. they have frequent buyer cards for an extra % off!! he bought my bday gifts there [housewares not clothing, thank the Lord] he bought a JACKET there, at which xshub and i just looked agog. it screams out homeless man. my rule is it goes directly in the washer, do not pass go, do not collect $200, lest it bring lice or worse in my house! then xsteen relates that she and her friends had been to the St Vincent DePaul thrift store in Dallas, which is not too far from SMU.
Sadly, The Beatles, one of the best bands ever, would not be eligible for that poll, being from Liverpool and all...
no, apparently i need to be louder so as to elicit help before i am murdered in my bed!
don’t care for ‘em.
Were you a Monkees fan? Please say no.
Shouldn’t that be left to the needy?
All the teenagers are doing that now. It’s not just up there but all over.
oh yes indeed i was. and Paul Revere and the Raiders. i loved Mark Lindsay.
In River City, there are at least 2 upscale Thrift stores, one of which deals strictly in used Designer-label clothing for tweens, teens and young adults. I’ll bet more and more people are shopping there.
I donate my used stuff to St. Vincent DePaul. OTOH, there are some bargains to be had on nice watches and guns at some of the local pawn shops. I’ve found two Tag-Heuer watches in very good to excellent condition for approximately one-fourth of new retail price.
i was attracted to PATRIOTS even then ; )
i agree! as i said to my SIL, it has nothing to do with the economic downturn, they were never interested in shopping in their LIVES, so it’s not like they have to look to thrift stores instead of dept stores. i guess it’s the idea of getting something for cheap. he has always enjoyed a bargain. some boys dad’s at Gonzaga are execs at places like ralph lauren and tommy hilfiger and so when their teams have bake sales, they bring in samples or overruns or whatever they have hanging around, to sell for cheap. he has always been excited to come home with a pair of pajama pants for $2 etc. but that’s all new stuff.
On Limbaugh, the left doth traduce
Call him racist, then tighten the noose
They hate that he’s healthy
Can’t stand that he’s wealthy
Full of envy of those who produce
And it irks them even more that he’s lost 80 pounds. A+ for you.
Purple Heart, AmVets and Value Village all come to the door to get stuff, they call in advance to see if you have anything and they put you on the route. so i have someone calling every few weeks to say they will be coming by for stuff. We have something almost every single time, for them. xsboy’s biggest concern in buying my bday gift there was that he might buy something for me that i had GIVEN AWAY, LOL!
St. Vincent DePaul will pick up at a time that is convenient for me. If it doesn’t involve furniture, I usually just drop it off since their store is on the way to work.
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