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!
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 couldn't resist.
Mornin arghy!!!
My favorite is "bless your bowels"
When I said I wanted to "See Saddam hung," that is NOT what I meant.
being that close to seeing his peep is extremely disconcerting.
he was great. i love that man.
Yes, Linux: wanna see my /etc/hosts.allow file? (wink, wink). I don't need no stinkin' GUI, give me a command line any day.
Explorer89
(well skilled in vi, but not html)
Hey Mortman, i think you are getting somewhere... '; )
vi - the REAL power editor. Ah yes, I remember it well.
Nice to meet you, Explorer89.
1st?
Their vaginas' lonely monologues,
May end their movements vagility.
Their's nothing like a whining bint,
To discourage a man's virility.
The hairy armpit lesbians,
Recruit plebes with ears panhygrous.
How stupid do you have to be,
To call feminism progress?
We seem to be on the same wavelength...
I caught part of it as well......he is wonderful.......I am exercised, showered and dressed for duty......all by 9:30 am. -sigh.....
Mutual, I'm sure.
so not only did he botch it, he wasn't even ORIGINAL about botching it? figures... ; )
Morning Argh, I see you did a bang up job of opening the classroom.......... ;^)
Wasn't that superb? More evidence God hates me. As if I needed any. When xs told me the other day God wasn't finished with me yet, she wasn't just whistling Dixie!
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