Posted on 10/16/2002 5:02:24 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....
stentorian \sten-TOR-ee-un\, adjective:
1. Extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice.
2. Of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice; stentorian lungs.
3. Use of the voice.
Around his family, Sergeant Charles Mingus Sr. was easily angered and often violent and closemouthed the rest of the time, except when he gave orders in a stentorian voice that carried the assumption of command.
--Gene Santoro, Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus
Etymology: Stentorian comes from Stentor, a Greek herald in the Trojan War. According to Homer's Iliad, his voice was as loud as that of fifty men combined. Date: 1605
ROTFLMAO!
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This might be more Stimulating
6 Posted on 02/15/2001 06:39:40 PST by hobbes1
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Or it might be less Flaccid
My bad...
7 Posted on 02/15/2001 06:40:30 PST by hobbes1
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I'll be nice to her. It's just that school is athwart of what I consider to be the more important aspects of my education.
To see the pictures costs a quarter. 64 Posted on 02/16/2001 13:04:23 PST by ralph
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What do I get to see for a half dollar?
65 Posted on 02/16/2001 13:05:52 PST by Slip18
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Teacher Annie, didn't I get a note sent home for my last comment? LOL!
The Hildebeast* doesn't like it when you talk about her like that!!
*B!TCH
Where's that deer, dear?
Did you know he has to wear camo pajamas to sneak up on his wife? No lie.
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Long time no see.
Well, Dain, as far as I can recall, he couldn't even shoot a stupid turkey. Remember? He went out one morning to turkey shoot, and came home with nada. He better wear camos to sneak up on the wife.
Missed you, bud!
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