Posted on 07/04/2008 6:03:13 AM PDT by tioga
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".
Inalienable
Adjective
"Alien," "alienable," "inalienable" -- it's easy enough to see the Latin word "alius," meaning "other," at the root of these three words. "Alien" joined our language in the 14th century, and one of its earliest meanings was "belonging to another." By the early 1600s that sense of "alien" had led to the development of "alienable," an adjective describing something you could give away or transfer ownership of, and "unalienable," its opposite. By about 1645, "inalienable" was also in use as a synonym of "unalienable." "Inalienable" is the more common variant today, but it was "unalienable" that was used in the Declaration of Independence to describe rights like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
...follow the flag to class!!!
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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OK, bye!
God love you Argh! Thank you!
Howdy stranger!!!!!!!!!
Good morning to you as well!!!
You watching the fireworks tonight?
In order to protect our inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, we need to close our borders—make them in-alien-able.
Yes, we are, I just don’t know where.
We’ll go to watch the Chincoteague fireworks, but not fromon the island itself, we’ll watch them from somewhere on this side of the causeway. Trying to leave Chincoteague after them takes about 3 times as long as the display itself lasts, and that is usually a good 45 minutes to an hour.
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you are so right about that!
I don’t mind the traffic so much as the drunks...although this year we are chancing it all...
Yeppers.
Tens of millions of illegals are inalienable to take US citizen’s jobns, while their democrat sponsors are demanding hundreds of billions in benefits from the taxpayers who are working.
But, isn’t today a holiday all over the world? Why are you at work? 8<)
(Robt must ask question before leaving to go finish a railing job....)
And even those who aren't working, because the illegals have taken all the jobs :(
I’m using my inalienable right to sit up, stand up, look up and shout, “Praise the Lord for our great country!”
Thanks Argh.
You’ve been missed.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
2nd to the last paragraph in an OUTSTANDING, MUST-READ article (on this Declaration Day)...here...
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/07/jihad_and_supremacism.php
Many thanks to Jeffrey Imm for writing and nw_arizona_granny for linking.
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