Posted on 07/29/2009 6:12:04 AM PDT 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".
con amore • \kahn-uh-MOR-ee\ • adverb 
1: with love, devotion, or zest *
2: in a tender manner -- used as a direction in music
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
Example sentence:
I'm not usually one to cry at weddings, but I found myself dabbing my eyes with a tissue as bride and groom recited their vows, con amore. (Get over it girly-man!)
Did you know?
Elephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses -- it was a French zoologist named Georges Cuvier who in the late 1700s first called these and other thick-skinned, hoofed mammals "Pachydermata." The word, from Greek roots, means "thick-skinned" in New Latin (the Latin used in scientific description and classification). In the 19th century, we began calling such animals "pachyderms," and we also began using the adjective "pachydermatous" to refer, both literally and figuratively, to the characteristics and qualities of pachyderms -- especially their thick skin. American poet James Russell Lowell first employed "pachydermatous" with the figurative "thick-skinned" sense in the mid-1800s: "A man cannot have a sensuous nature and be pachydermatous at the same time."
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)
i think many officeholders are deluded enough to think they are desirable no matter how unfortunate-looking they may be. make that any powerful man.
Oh he was good!
be afraid, be very afraid........
Don’t ask that of a man who has been married and divorced twice.
If he’s the AC then what the heck is Rahm Deadfish Emmanuel?
his minion
He looks a bit like John Frobisher.
LOL.......oh, the days when I joyfully made mudpies and splashed in puddles.......
I told you about Emily, our latest foster pup. She will be 4 months old tomorrow. She has very bad hip dysplasia in both hips - basically no socket at all in either joint so the ball just floats and grinds against whatever part of the hip bone it hits. She still has remarkable mobility given her condition and seems to have gained a bit of muscle strength in the short time we've had her. She also is completely over the nervous submissive urination problem she had when we first got her, AND seems to be completely house-trained now. The vet and surgeon reviewed the x-rays and said her dysplasia is so bad she needs the surgical treatment as soon as possible, so she should get the surgery on one hip pretty soon and the other as soon as the first hip recovers enough for her to handle the second one. This little pup is the sweetest foster dog we have had, and she perks up whenever any of us walk into the room and runs over to greet us. And she loves our two goldens and plays with them as rough as she can, and they are so gentle with her.
what a sweetie, it makes me tear up to think about her poor hips.
Holy Crap - I thought the same thing!!!!
OH she is adorable - I hate that she is in pain
poor thing.......she looks as sweet as you say she is.
You probably wouldn't have to call the Times.
The crime beat reporter would probably be covering the resulting homicide.
That's a Zero slack IDFCWYTYA ( I Don;t F*ng care who you THINK you are) offense..
Jimmy Carter’s speech tempo according to R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. in an ancient American Expectorator, er, Spectator:
Andante con ping pong.
Well, maybe you needed to be there...
arghy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i barely recognized ya!
well i didn’t want to admit to a premeditated murder, but yeah....
That’s because it’s aboot 104 F. in my apartment and I’m dying. Heat wave, rare around here. Once I’m dead I’ll be easy to recognize.
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