;Posted on 03/01/2016 7:50:14 PM PST by Louis Foxwell
;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 DOOHS; DYOOHS]
verb
To traduce someone is to slander him, vilify him, malign, defame, and calumniate him, speak falsely and with malice toward him or his character; from Latin traducere (to disgrace), a variant of transducere (literally, to carry over; figuratively, to expose, "show up").
In Shakespeare's Othello (Act V, Scene 2) Othello cries to Lodovico who has come to arrest him:
...in Allepo once,
Where a malignant and turban'd Turk
Beat a Venetian and traduc'd the state,
I took by the throat the circumcised dog
And smote him thus.
Whereupon, he obeys Shakespeare's stage directions:Stabs himself. Things are tough all around and it's a bloody mess; but getting back to words and definitions, avoid the common error of identifying slander or defame with libel,
Without going into legal minutia and ramifications, libel is slander in written form and "published," i.e., communicated in that form to a third party or parties. Best advice: Keep your mouth shut and your pen in your pocket, or, in the present tense, your fingers off the keyboard.
Marco hath traduced much this evening.
L
Have at it wordsmiths but watch the course of your calumny.
Awards and commendations in the AM.
Trump will sue reporters for libel who traduce him
That’s not a bad word for this primary. But the word for today is Trumptastic!!!
It’s a new word. Might not be in your dictionary yet.
US presidential politics has become one big game of traduction.
I got loose and juiced and traduced Bonaduce without excuse.
Ejected protestor exclaimed “Don’t traduce me, bro!”
Should we call someone who still calls Caitlyn by her old name a transducer?
To tell the truth about Hitlery is a traducement according to her lapdog media.
Cripes...I thought TRADUCE was Klingon for “Your mother has a flat forehead”
Without any time Toulouse.
My mother told me if I couldn’t say something nice about someone not to say anything at all. IF I don’t go to bed, I am likely to traduce Trump or Rubio. Goodnight!
Au contraire. It is Monsiour Trump who traduces mightily, calling everyone who opposes him stupid, loser, and worse. I have never observed anyone with so fine an education to have such a limited vocabulary.
Is it me or is the traducing on FR getting worse these days?
Can’t really agree with the Trumpster on this one about tariffs - In the past high taxes on trade has done no good but artificially support some industries/industrialists but in general tradreduces and economies decline.
On the other hand, foreign governments support THEIR exports with underground supports and restrictions all over the world.
Oh, c’mon Robert. $2000 iphones are going to be fantastic and classy! Everyone will want one.
(Of course, hardly anyone will be able to, but that just makes them better.)
or such gossamer-thin skin!
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