Posted on 11/19/2008 6:29:23 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".
deportment • \dih-PORT-munt\ • noun
the manner in which one conducts oneself; behavior
Example sentence:
The school expects students to dress in proper attire and maintain a respectful level of deportment throughout the day.
Did you know?
"Deportment" evolved from the verb "deport," meaning "to behave especially in accord with a code," which in turn came to us through Middle French from Latin “deportare,” meaning "to carry away." (You may also know "deport" as a verb meaning "to send out of the country"; that sense is newer and is derived directly from Latin “deportare.”) "Deportment" can simply refer to one's demeanor, or it can refer to behavior formed by breeding or training and often conforming to conventional rules of propriety: "Are you not gratified that I am so rapidly gaining correct ideas of female propriety and sedate deportment?" wrote 17-year-old Emily Dickinson to her brother Austin.
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)
In the Southern tier to the west of you they’ve gotten over 2 feet of lake-effect snow over the past few days; a few of the area ski resorts are opening up this week, the earliest ever.
Ah yes, the Dhue.
How is that possible? Is Al Gore giving a speech nearby.
if the weather had not been so warm prior to this snow, so much of it wouldn’t have melted upon landing....if not for that the snow would be piling up a lot higher. for that I am grateful, but another two inches on my car is ticking me off royally...that’s three times in a week. I am sick of this white...$(*&!!!
with the way megyn went after obama supporters....won’t take her long to cross that line and she will be OUT. I have NOT watched any news since the Friday before the election.....it was accidentally on in the squad room while I was typing and I heard britt announce obama’s win and I turned that sucker off in record time. HGTV and movies are all I have watched since that night. can’t say that I miss any of it.
we have lots of tv’s at the office and one of them has Fox News on.
Vodka was an evening well spent
Even some schnapps, peppermint
But a nasty headache
And hands that shake
That is what deportment
hERE i iS, mADAM tEAchER!!!
“There won’t be many people frequenting the deportment stores in the mall this holiday season”, or
“ Yes we can go to the deportment store to spend all the free money N0bama’s gonna give us....Merry Christmas!”
So if a person is evicted and kicked out of the country they face , departing the apartment with deportment and deportment in a compartment by the department?
OMG....al-qaida number two calls obama a “house negro” and it is not reported? are they gonna ban al-qaida from their news shows for being unPC? we are in for four tough years.
i got a reprieve from the bakesale, my friend called to tell me they have sold out of everything before third period was even over! and we had TONS of stuff. i dropped off 2 doz DD when i left my baked goods with her before 8 am. she had already sold 4 doz donuts prior to 8~!hungry hordes of boys have been passing through eating everything in their path. i am just as glad to not have to go and help out with the selling.
...can't say that I think there was anything wrong with it....but Fox has let Linda Vester go, John Gibson is fading, and ED is gone. ED was my least fav of the three, but this is silly.
i recall hearing that. so she wasn’t fired immediately for it? they were kind of at loose ends as to what to do with her, it seems. her specials on Terrorism were quite good. she truly GETS IT, what we are up against. yet that dimbulb, courtney brainless friel, hangs on at Fox!
Fox is just biding it’s time till her contract expires....same with Gibson I imagine.
Another reason I never moved back to NY after I retired from the Navy. Shorts and tee shirt here. (I never did like shoveling the weather.)
2. With way to many people in the country illegally we need to work on deportment. :)
they have a stable of people in the background there, i wonder how they are paid. like the other brainless blonde who was on the weekend F&F til they brought alisyn camerata on with those guys that i don’t care for. harris faulkner is around to sub on occasion and what was that other blonde who i didn’t like at first but came to like? oh paige hopkins wasn’t it? i thought she was good. they took her off weekends also.
Yeah, "deport" does come to mind.
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