Posted on 01/31/2007 6:52:24 AM PST by VRWCmember
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".
interpellate • \in-ter-PELL-ayt\ • verb
to question (as a foreign minister) formally concerning an official action or policy or personal conduct
Example sentence:
At the international tribunal, U.N. officials interpellated the premier about his country's acquisition of illegal weapons.
Did you know?
"Interpellate" is a word you might encounter in the international news section of a newspaper or magazine. It refers to a form of political challenging used in the congress or parliament of many nations throughout the world, in some cases provided for in the country's constitution. Formal interpellation isn't practiced in the U.S. Congress, but in places where it is practiced, it can be the first step in ousting an appointed official or bringing to task an elected one. The word was borrowed from the Latin term "interpellatus," past participle of "interpellare," which means "to interrupt or disturb a person speaking." The "interrupt" sense, once used in English, is now obsolete, and "interpellate" should not be confused with "interpolate," which means "to insert words into a text or conversation."
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
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 Threads:
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
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
The nutroots loathe Hillary.
I'm begining to see the possibility of not only a 3rd party spoiler but a fourth and fifth one also.
One from the right, one from the left, and Blooming Idiot because he's bored and rich.
And many mooooooooooore.
Oh, dang, I just saw the date. My bad.
LOL, no problem, it's only one year.
OK, I'm not trying today... been pretty busy this morning.
To make you birthday a little more memorable, JaJ, I have purloined for you a diamond studdded birthday cake. Enjoy. Don't worry though, if you mitakenly swallow one of the studs, it too shall pass.
Happy Birthday, darlin'!!!!!!!!!
NEW WORDS FOR 2007:
Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace (and elsewhere)!!!
1. BLAMESTORMING : Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
2. SEAGULL MANAGER : A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
3. ASSMOSIS : The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard
4. SALMON DAY : The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
5. CUBE FARM : An office filled with cubicles.
6. PRAIRIE DOGGING : When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.
7. MOUSE POTATO : The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
8. SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What Yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.
9. STRESS PUPPY : A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
10. SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
11. XEROX SUBSIDY : Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
12. IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.
13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE : The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again. Often feel like doing this to my computer------
14. ADMINISPHERE : The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
15. 404 : Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested site could not be located.
16. GENERICA : Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, and subdivisions.
17. OHNOSECOND : That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an email by mistake).
18. WOOFS : Well-Off Older Folks.
19. CROP DUSTING : Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a Cube Farm.
- Author Unknown
I think it was about 15 times the size of ours, but then we have 10 people (and a cat, two gerbils, and a fish) in here.
I wish I had more technical know how.
I'd put up a "how much bigger is John Edward's house" calculator on my blog.
I have not seen these, probably because I do NOT open email Fws......LOL - very funny......I am one or another of those periodically during my day!
Ugh.
(Robt coughs in late, sits in back of class.)
I was watching that loser Waxman interpellate in the hearing on the Weather Channel's crazy chick show and I swear you could drive an 18 wheeler up one of his nostrils. I also noticed they only showed the dems at that hearing and only included sound clips from the same. Not much agenda there, huh?
So it's Just another Birthday to Just another Joe....
Have a Happy one anyway!
Did you see my team implode last night during our only chance at national TV coverage? Sheesh.
Happy Birthday! Make a wish!
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