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. ;-)
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!
I had to share a funny with you-one of my neighbors was buying deer food at the feed store when I stopped in to do the same. She was telling me that someone decided that the patio and garden area she is building at her house looked like a druid altar of some sort, and told some other neighbors, one of whom was ill mannered enough to ask her if this was so. She said she told the woman yes, absolutely-and the sacrifice of not-necessarily-virgin boys begins at moonrise, if you know anyone who cares to join in. The woman apologized profusely. I absolutely LMAO, because I can definately picture this woman saying something like that-she does not mince words.
Now that really sucks!
Fortunately it will only cost me about fifteen bucks, but what an absurdity. The area two blocks east of this 7-11 is the area that produced the shooter in the Boynton Beach Mall a couple of months ago.
the vet said if we were watching her that we could take it off of her, just so someone can keep her from licking her wound. so she has had it off for awhile, but i will put it on her to sleep tonight, and i guess i will let her be loose in the laundry room with loosh tonight, instead of crated in there, bc i don’t think she can get in there with the headgear on.
she seems ravenously hungry, i haven’t fed her dinner yet, just a few little dry cookies. they gave me pain meds for her, but said, “as needed”, i said how in the HECK am i going to know if she needs them! she said well you want her feeling a bit of pain so she won’t romp and act her normal rambunctious self, but don’t want her to have so much pain she won’t eat etc. She doesn’t seem to be in pain except when someone touchs her in a sore spot. she also hopped up AND down from my stitch chair before any of us could stop her, and she yelped on the way up and on the way down. she is pretty irrepressible and is not going to want to be sedate. but she seems very happy to be home.
oh lordy, great that she had to foresight to just be absurd like that, hilarious!
not yore day ; )
They already have, in the form of pc commentaries and standards that would’ve been laughable when we were kids. A for you.
You don’t want to know.
Traveling surrender show - I like it! A+ for you!
How did you buy cigarettes without showing an ID? You get an A+ for being polite in the face of doofosity.
I love people that are quick on the draw. Generally, I think of stuff like that on the car ride home. :-(
When Husky girl was spayed, we took the collar off of her until bedtime, then put it on again, which worked quite well. She was eating and all, so I didn’t end up having to give her any pain meds-it sounds like Chanel is doing fine.
This is the same neighbor who has was discussing with me building a catapult to knock that noisy airboat off the water last year. She comes up with some fine zingers from time to time...
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