Posted on 06/04/2015 5:35:23 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”.
Prolix
Adjective
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
LOL A+++
LMAO A+++
I apologize for the brevity, but prolix explanations would bore you all.
Suffice it to say: “I’m back.”
I guess you’re not following my tweets.
My reaction yesterday to “Let’s all use the metric system!”:
Yeah, and let’s play football with our feet.
I swear he was the Dumbest man in the Senate from about 2001 through 2006.
And that takes some doing.
Welcome back!!!
Damn. That is worth a retweet.
I miss most tweets because I follow back my 4,000 followers, making my newsfeed to big to be useful.
Hillary is a pro lix (ewww) vs Chaffee is a metrix (hehehehe)
haven’t been on any social media for some time, kind of got some stuff going on! this was being discussed on drivetime radio and football was one of the major drawbacks to it! the ones calling in favor of it were all engineers.
AND he said he lives in CANADA and that announcement was about as impassioned as I don’t know what.
perfect!
Living in Canada?
If we could get him on ticket with Jeb Bush we could go full NAFTA/NAU.
I now think that is going to happen some day. i used to think people who thought that were crazy.
They had a ice cream cone competition at Baskin Robbins the other day ... Amateur and pro-licker divisions of course.
welcome back!
Measurement systems are tools. I have no problem using what I need to use. I don’t see any need to try to convert a culture.
The metric system has its merits in some cases. In others, not. Celsius is a horrible system. Degrees are too large (you have to use one decimal point for any precision) and the scale is about useless for human activity. (0-100 F is the “normal” range of human existence, much more everyday practical than the boiling/freezing points of water.)
The metric system is not natural. It tries to make up for lack of naturalness with ease of conversion. It’s a hard sell.
People have cups of milk and pints of beer. There are inches and feet and yards to measure different scales of things. There is no metric commonly-used measure between centimeters and meters. Beverages have to be measured in hundreds of milliliters or tens of centimeters.
In Canada they have “metric gallons” of milk (4 liters) for sale. Why? Because a gallon is a practical size for a family. It just doesn’t conveniently fit on a “multiple of ten” boundary.
Give up a connection to the English language and a naturally-evolved system so a Frenchman only has to divide by ten? That’s not very conservative.
yes, I have always thought it was BS.
I remember once on the TV show Taxi, Louie asks Rev Jim why he hadn’t shown up for work.
“I don’t work weekends.”
“You’ve been gone for 9 days!”
“I thought we switched to the metric system.”
LOL A+++
LOL!
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