Posted on 11/16/2018 10:52:42 AM PST by Simon Green
Masticate.
adverb
1. in the literal or strict sense:
2. in a literal manner; word for word:
3. actually; without exaggeration or inaccuracy:
Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me,
As plurdled gabbleblotchits,
On a lurgid bee,
That mordiously hath blurted out,
Its earted jurtles,
Into a rancid festering confectious organ squealer.
[drowned out by moaning and screaming]
Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles,
Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts,
And living glupules frart and slipulate,
Like jowling meated liverslime,
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turling dromes,
And hooptiously drangle me,
With crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don’t.
trivial ?
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost,
For want of a shoe, the horse was lost,
For want of a horse, the rider was lost,
For want of a rider, the message was lost,
For want of a message, the battle was lost,
For want of a battle, the war was lost,
For want of a war, the kingdom was lost,
For want of a nail, the world was lost
‘The Want of a Nail”
Fault goes to the teacher.
Confusion with a single word should not ruin more that one single question. Dependencies across many questions is bad teaching.
Also seeking clarity should be rewarded as that reflects the real world.
This is not a trivial matter.
https://datayze.com/word-analyzer.php?word=trivial
Audience Familarity
Word Rank: 4515th
Grade Level (Approximate): Elementary or Middle School
Fog Reading Ease Complex Word: Yes
Dale-Chall Reading Ease Difficult Word: Yes
7th grade level for C students?
DK
I know this is trivial but trivial is worth 16 points in the game of Scrabble®
;^}
Could be worse....you could have quoted from “Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning”.
Let’s use it in a sentence, Laws in America are deemed trivial if you are a Democrat.
Often time, the definition of a word can be determined by the whole of the sentence it is used in. Stupid children.
It’s in this 7th grade spelling list - https://www.homespellingwords.com/7th-grade/spelling-list-30
Intermediate spelling list - http://www2.sharonherald.com/herald/nie/spellb/spelllist2.html
100 words every high school graduate should know - https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/137567 Not the word itself but it is in a definition of one of the words.
This should show everyone how trivial their education is when they don’t know the meaning of the word trivial!!!
NZ has some really dumb kids.
So does the USA.
Sharpton is trivial.
Try vial?
Which might be related to the reason they don’t know to turn their iphones from portrait to landscape when videoing.
Today’s kids wouldn’t understand.
I taught in an alternative ed high school and was repeatedly asked why I was “always usin’ such big words?” A “big word” could have consisted of words such as “repeatedly” and “consisted”. They also repeatedly asked me why I was always usin’ cursive on the board and complained they couldn’t read it. It took me some weeks to come to the realization that they weren’t kidding, they really couldn’t read the board.
Cursive is a separate pair of alphabets, and at the least is equivalent to a really weird font to those who haven’t been taught it - which with the advent of ubiquitous laptops, has become more and more the case.
As for the “big words”, that’s on them.
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