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Word For The Day, Friday, 9/20/02
The Verbivores | 9/20/02 | Teacher

Posted on 09/20/2002 5:03:43 AM PDT by RikaStrom

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”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of 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....


dilettante \DIL-uh-tahnt; dil-uh-TAHNT; dil-uh-TAHN-tee; -TANT; TAN-tee\, noun; :
dilettantes, also dilettanti \-TAHN-tee; -TAN-\; plural
dilettante, dilettantish; adjective
dilettantism; noun

1. An admirer or lover of the fine arts.
2. An amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge sporadically, superficially, or for amusement only.
3. Of or characteristic of a dilettante; amateurish
4. An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only.

At first his colleagues tended to dismiss this witty young dilettante poet as a scientific lightweight, even if he was an agreeable addition to their dinner table.
--"Dr Alex Comfort," Times (London), March 28, 2000

Etymology: Italian, from present participle of dilettare to delight, from Latin dilectare. Date: 1748



TOPICS: Education; Humor; Word For The Day
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To: xsmommy
Odd, IIRC, and I know I do, you expressed a burning hunger for some meat just the other day...
241 posted on 09/23/2002 5:21:27 AM PDT by hobbes1
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To: hobbes1; xsmommy
Good morning you two. I'm back in the states and back on line.
242 posted on 09/23/2002 5:28:08 AM PDT by CholeraJoe
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To: xsmommy
you obviously missed the newsflash that i went vegan...

Say it ain't so. Man I had some good lapin in France.

It's BUNNY.

243 posted on 09/23/2002 5:29:49 AM PDT by CholeraJoe
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To: CholeraJoe
oh ceej!!!!!!!!!!!!! i missed you so much! It is good to have you home. tell us all about it!
244 posted on 09/23/2002 5:30:32 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: CholeraJoe
Mrs. CJ got back to the US w/o international incident, i presume?
245 posted on 09/23/2002 5:31:02 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: CholeraJoe
Bonjour Monseiur, Comment allez vous ?
246 posted on 09/23/2002 5:31:28 AM PDT by hobbes1
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To: xsmommy
Not much to report that I haven't already shared. Explosives false positive on the wife's purse, pickpocket finger mangling. Great tour of Versailles and the sewers of Paris, Eiffel, Louvre, etc.
247 posted on 09/23/2002 5:38:52 AM PDT by CholeraJoe
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To: hobbes1; xsmommy
You Sir, are what we call around here a sh#t disturber...... heeheehee..............

Good morning to you both....

248 posted on 09/23/2002 6:01:48 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
have a good weekend, whyisa?

sometimes i just have to put my fingers in my ears when the tiger starts to speak...

249 posted on 09/23/2002 6:02:46 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
We did have a good time.....quick trip - but upstate New York is amazingly beautiful! I could certainly live there..........
250 posted on 09/23/2002 6:08:36 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
eeks! beautiful now, yes, but barren, desolate, and GRAY in the winter. xshub is on notice, i would move anywhere with him but there! btw, i am not a skiing, winter sports kind of person, so all of that crap is lost on me!
251 posted on 09/23/2002 6:14:20 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; xsmommy
You might prefer to reserve that Judgement till, say, jan, or Feb.

Tell her xs...

252 posted on 09/23/2002 6:14:37 AM PDT by hobbes1
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To: xsmommy
LOL. GMTA!
253 posted on 09/23/2002 6:14:59 AM PDT by hobbes1
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To: hobbes1; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; CholeraJoe
just did, darling. it is very pretty, driving through there now with all of the gardens blooming etc. But sheesh, you see NO SUN all winter long and winter, much like in CJLand, lasts til July 4th and starts again around Labor day.
254 posted on 09/23/2002 6:16:07 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
YEs, and you will kndly note that I was in sucha good mood that i didn't point out, that your gender,realistically prevents your M from being G... ; )
255 posted on 09/23/2002 6:16:59 AM PDT by hobbes1
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Unlike your T,

and



A ; )
256 posted on 09/23/2002 6:17:32 AM PDT by hobbes1
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To: hobbes1
: P

was going to call you on that, but let it slide, figuring you would renege, if given the opportunity...

257 posted on 09/23/2002 6:18:06 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
We're behind this year. Our last snow was June 12th and we haven't had one here yet and it's almost October. In the winter, this part of Montana doesn't stay overcast continually like some other parts do. We have many sunny days in the winter. Just colder than heck.
258 posted on 09/23/2002 6:19:31 AM PDT by CholeraJoe
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To: CholeraJoe
extremely cold but sunny is better than gloom and doomy, IMO. i do believe in that seasonal whatever syndrome, that if you never see sun you will be depressed all the time.

speaking of which, i have been serafem free for almost a month now, because of dr. kenny's screwing around and not getting back to me, and i don't feel any worse off than with it. maybe i should just take an m&m every day as a placebo and call it good?

259 posted on 09/23/2002 6:22:23 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
maybe i should just take an m&m every day as a placebo

Chocolate has significant mood-elevating properties.

260 posted on 09/23/2002 6:24:35 AM PDT by CholeraJoe
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