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!
This place is killing me. I am lucky to grab the albuterol between sneezes.
you have asthma? and my allergies are bothering me this weekend, I doubt it's better up here. The daughter's doc always told us we should take her to the beach, safest place for her with her asthma.......all that fresh ocean air.
Try living in this part of VA.........or MD or DE
He says, sooo...how long you had asthma?
I said, what? I don't have asthma.
He says, do you drink a lot of coffee?
It seems caffiene is an asthma medication.
Well, Tioga seems to think we should all live at the beach. You're closest - does that work?
albuterol works.
OK, so how much "asthma medication" can I charge off as medical expenses at the rate of 2-4 pots per day?
Three weeks or so in the hospital, over three different instances.
Then a year or so of home nebulizer treatments.
And in the last two years, nothing. Healthy as a horse.
Ironically, all of it. Caffiene is a medication. Coffee is just a delivery system.
the dang dog wants me to walk her outside where somewhere on this hill is a mama bear with her cub........mmm, time to roust hubby from his recliner to walk the dogs with me.....
Take hubby. yes.
Hmmmmn.
Need to cut wood, eh? No tool available....
Robt wonders what he could fax to her to fix da problem.....
Jig saws, power saws, 7-1/2" circular saws, sabre saw, regular 2x4 hand saw, moulding and trim saws, 4x4 power steel band saw, hacksaws, drywall saws, .....
Now, iffen only she'd ask fer some help!
(St Ronnie wonders why Robt has all that much stuff to cut things, but never seems to be able to put stuff back together....)
Only if ti can outrun hubby......
LOL. You don't have to outswim the shark...
LOL, back safe and sound......now to saw some wood.....er, get some sleep. I just finished a 24 hour shift so I am tired out. Later........
Gruss Gott.
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