Posted on 05/20/2005 2:19:26 AM PDT by Argh
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of four "Words for the Day".
1. vagile (from Latin vagus wandering)
free to move about
2. vagility (as above)
the quality or state of being vagile; broadly: the capacity of an organism to compete successfully in the struggle for existence
3. panhygrous (well, it IS Friday)
moist in all parts
(I found this at the online International House of Logorrhea. I can't find it in my dictionaries at home, but it does appear in a number of places if you google it.)
4. dysphemism
(from Latin and Grek dys meaning abnormal, bad, etc., and from Greek pheme speech)
substitution of a disagreeable, offensive or disparaging word or expression for an agreeable or inoffensive one (as of axle grease for butter, old man for father, or heap for car); also: a word or expression so substituted - contrasted with euphemism
Example sentence:
I'm not sure this last word will have much utility for the class. If I use "scummy, lying, self-aggrandizing molester" for "Bill Clinton", am I using a dysphemism? No, I'm being accurate. And the same would apply to the rest of our usual suspects. A challenge for the students today.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using one or more of the Words for the Day in one or more sentences.
The sentences must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Good Morning, Class. Welcome to School!
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
No pushing at the door please!
You must have seen how I botched the title of the thread this morning. What a mess!
That's a water fowl loonie. I am a Bull Moose Loonie.
I know, you expect more somehow......... and Argh can screw up like that on his own anyway
I hope for his sake it's in Latin, so you can still respect the man.... ;)
you are so ignernt.
Meanwhile, 2 weeks after the scan the doctor tells me what damage he sees is on the left hand side of the spine, so he doesn't understand why all my problems are on the left. so he's sending me to a neurologist. I know the Whyisa thinks it should be a neurosurgeon for a lobotomy.
MR PIGS
MR NOT PIGS
MR 2 PIGS
CD EDBD IS
LIB MR PIGS
someone attempted to pass something off as a pierogie at the cultural lunch today that was in no way shape or form remotely a pierogie. it was a full on outrage.
Wow, that is an excellent poem - and Argh, you are so twisted I can see why your spine and sides are all mixed up.......
Bloody hell.
MR NUTS
MR NOT NUTS
OSAR CM .........
Yikes! Doesn't he know he can go to hell for that?!? Etc. :^)
In the shower?
So, that is good Arghy, maybe a specialist will be able to tell us why your brain is the way it is............ :^)
handedness is a confusing subject. I always have to point in the direction when I am trying to direct someone left or right, and I can be pointing left, and the word right comes out of my mouth.
I certainly can! And will again! Just to prove it wasn't a fluke. Or something.
now I would join you on that outrage bandwagon. With any luck, it would be crowded enough for you to have to sit on my lap...
arghy i hope that someone will get your head screwed on straight so that your neck, back,arm, shoulder no longer hurts...
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