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!
well this should brighten everyone's day, in case you haven't seen the i see london, i see france, i see saddam in his UNDERPANTS photo...
morning..........I will not mention it.
My three-year-old's favorite dysphemism is to refer to passing gas as, "Did somebody step on a duck?"
(In my house all schtick revolves around Caddy Shack.)
No kidding-and hubby had to be still half asleep to even entertain the notion that I would be cooking like that every morning for company when I don't any other time-this isn't a hotel...
The vagile barkeep, voluptuous,
Keeps dysphemic geeks panhygrous,
With humor and unmatched vagility,
The keys to her sexy ability,
To keep our pervesions repressed down inside of us!
Not fired - slow roasted !
That photo is what all the shouting is about? Good grief-the presstitutes are desperate...
memblegrumble danged rain. It figures - it's hubby's day off and we had a whole list of things to do today - all of them outside.............
you are good!
ACKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
So, are you a Unix or Linux type (you tagline)?
I've got to go do this estimate now so I can go to the grocery store on the way home and be back early-back later...
EGADS!!!!!!!!!! is it a real photo or a phony shot?
I try ;-P How's xsfamily, ouside of the prayer breakfast SNAFU?
OMG look at this pickup line??? ; )
The definition of vagility notwithstandiing it brings to mind the dysphemism for it's more panhygrous sound alike, when viewing the pic on this thread....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1406926/posts
very good,thanks, how about you? aren't you supposed to be doing a move?
Fox is going to show the president live at the breakfast today......
i think that's real....
let me go and turn the TV on then, so i can hear it and go in to see when he comes on.
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