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!
oooooo...on the face and scalp...not fun at all. I hope it gets better soon.
ACKKKKKKK - that sounds like lice.
I knew nothing about lice until a month ago - but one of the interesting things I did learn with having to deal with the problem is that I probably wouldn't have had to deal with the problem if my child's hair wasn't kept so clean :(
It took most of a year before the elastic on my waistbands and bras stopped hiving up after I took them off...but what was really bad was the fact that I would start hiving in my sleep, scratch it and wake up with superhives all down my arm or leg...
Yuck indeed!
I can deal with the face - the scalp is where I am having huge problems. Trying to use the creams on the scalp is a royal pain.
OUCH - just reading that is painful.
Maybe I really don't get it. Never had to deal with that.
Scabies is worse than lice. My niece gave me a nice lice infection about 7 years ago...my head started itching, especially around my ears and I didn't know why...I was scared I had something weird like pancreatic cancer, which makes you itch. Then I brushed my hair over the table, and saw them.
I screamed, ran to walmart, sprayed my mattress, covered my mattress, pillows, treated my head, bought a robie comb (which electrocutes the little bugger...for weeks later, if my head itched I began combing it with the Robie, but I never had a reoccurance...
Yuck! Parasites! Yuck multiple times!
Guess what - neither did I! The only real and true embarrassment I had about the danged situatio was the fact that at nearly 45 I had no clue what I was supposed to do to deal with it.........
As to shaving her - what used to be sit on it length hair is now an ear length bob..........and everyone who sees her just gushes over it and how wonderful it looks - it's driving me nuts.
Of course, I am a guy. Girls may shoot me.
Who needs hair? I have a convertable, LOL.
Now that's sad. Let her hair grow back.
I have hair past my waist. Hasn't been cut in nine years. Anybody get near it with a scissors dies.
But they do say that lice control was one of the reasons the ancient Egyptian upper class shaved their hair off and wore wigs instead (men and women).
Let me try again.
I will shave my head in a heartbeat - make's no difference to me.
Not that I like short hair. I just hate to deal with it.
And my daughter will never get a haircut - unless she needs one. then we can both go bald.
I'm sure the scabies is worse than lice - I was just so freaked out about it because I had no clue.
I'm going to buy one of those electronic combs this weekend.
It actually became a comedy of errors with the lice. Jax had been complaining about her head being itchy, but we were dealing with fleas with the dogs and once they got treated she seemed to be fine, but came home from school saying the teacher wanted to know if we had changed shampoos to cause her itching - it just so happened that I had washed her hair with my shampoo because I was out of hers. Then she got a stomach virus and was out of school for 3 days..............wed., thurs., fri. and so the note about lice being found in the classroom did not come home to me.......It was Monday when the school nurse called me to come get her.
Goofing around and found a web site that translates into very strange usages of the English language.
Hey, what is wrong with bald?
I laugh as I say that, as many of the girls were accusing me of being bald. I'm not. But who cares? Why would anyone care? LOL. Silliness.
I'm butting into your conversation here - I never had allergies in my life until I moved to West Texas - we were in a town with a Cotton Gin - THAT was my problem - they do arial spraying to defoliate the cotton - then the ginning process puts a lot of "gunk" in the air........ so don't move near anyplace that has cotton farming! lol
Maybe I need to move to NH.
She absolutely loves it short.......
Patton, you have to understand, I could barely see what I was doing while I was cutting it because of the tears running. That was on a Wednesday evening. the following Monday afternoon, as she's sitting doing her homework she said to me "I really like my hair, mommy. Are you over it yet?"
I wanted long hair when I was her age and was not allowed to have it - she has wanted short hair for nearly a year and I ignored her preference. I did to her what my mother did to me, just in the opposite direction.
I learned my lesson.
I love northern New Mexico.......... I love the mountains - and since we have hit an all time high for the date in Houston I'm ready for the mountains!!!!
My mom always wanted me to wear my hair short. I have to admit, bless her soul, that since she passed on, I haven't cut my hair once.
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