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Word For The Day, Thursday, April 26, 2007 - argot
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| April 26, 2007
| secret garden
Posted on 04/26/2007 4:59:07 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".
argot \AHR-go; -gut\, noun
1. A specialized and often secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group.
2. A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds.
Example sentences:
No one likes jargon, especially other people's jargon, and few bodies of professional lingo are less beloved than the argot of educators.
-- Howard Gardner, The Disciplined Mind: What All Students Should Understand
The side road was a bit narrow but in good repair. But as happened from time to time, the last few miles to our destination, in this case the park, were unpaved--"unsealed" in Aussie argot.
-- Don Langley, "Life in the Vast Lane", Los Angeles Times, November 14, 1999
In the argot of geology, paleomagnetic specialists are sometimes called paleomagicians.
-- John Mcphee, Annals of the Former World
Etymology:
Argot is from the French, a word for slang.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
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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
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To: secret garden; Fierce Allegiance; JoanVarga; Jack Deth; K4Harty; miskie; Dutchgirl; cardinal4; ...
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posted on
04/26/2007 4:59:44 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: secret garden
I have risen, I have shown, I have charges pending.
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posted on
04/26/2007 5:03:11 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: theDentist
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posted on
04/26/2007 5:09:48 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: secret garden
When I was a kid I loved the story of Jason and the Argotnauts. A bunch of sweaty Greek men on a boat doing manly things. Almost as much fun as a gladiator movie.
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posted on
04/26/2007 5:13:54 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(Beebers stuned - $5. Two for $8.)
To: secret garden
Good Morning!
Argot? Yeah, I know about that. It grows on wheat and if you eat it, you go crazy.
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posted on
04/26/2007 5:17:52 AM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(I know where I have gone wrong, and I can cite it, chapter and verse.)
To: secret garden
1. A specialized and often secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group.The Creole language is an example of an argot.
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posted on
04/26/2007 5:20:24 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
To: raybbr
Cochon! What you be suckin’ all dem crawfish heads fo’, cher?
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posted on
04/26/2007 5:23:08 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(Beebers stuned - $5. Two for $8.)
To: theDentist
Yikes!
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posted on
04/26/2007 5:23:37 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: xsmommy
Can you spring him?
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posted on
04/26/2007 5:24:20 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: CholeraJoe
Cochon! What you be suckin all dem crawfish heads fo, cher?Where is the Word For the Day in there?
:^)
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posted on
04/26/2007 5:25:30 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
To: CholeraJoe
That and your tagline earn you the first A of the day!
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posted on
04/26/2007 5:25:39 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: raybbr
I ain’t got no boudin, cher. Argot andouille $3 per pound.
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posted on
04/26/2007 5:27:29 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(Beebers stuned - $5. Two for $8.)
To: secret garden; theDentist
i baked him a cake with a saw inside
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posted on
04/26/2007 5:27:48 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: All
While all of you are checking in this morning, we are looking for someone to step up and offer to take over the heavy lifting for the Tuesday WFTD.
Thank you,
The Subs
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posted on
04/26/2007 5:28:00 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: CholeraJoe
Wasn't that the movie that had that stupid metallic/robot owl...? Lord, I hated that movie....
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posted on
04/26/2007 5:29:28 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: theDentist
I thought the robot owl was in “Clash of the Titans.”
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posted on
04/26/2007 5:30:35 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(Beebers stuned - $5. Two for $8.)
To: xsmommy
Thanks xs. I told them the balcony shades were broken in that open position, but they wouldn’t listen.
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posted on
04/26/2007 5:31:43 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: CholeraJoe
Might be... I could be wrong
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posted on
04/26/2007 5:32:57 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: secret garden
Missus Clinton's use of
argot when meeting with African Americans is both condescending and hillarious. The only way it could be more of both is if she wore a head thing like Aunt Jamima.
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posted on
04/26/2007 5:36:49 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(A proud member of the Frederalist society.)
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