Posted on 05/25/2005 5:16:48 AM PDT by VRWCmember
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
threnody \THREN-uh-dee\ noun
a song of lamentation for the dead; elegy
Example sentence:
In the opera's final scene, the leading lady sings a threnody to mourn the murdered king.
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"Threnody" encompasses all genres. There are great threnodies in prose (such as the lines from Charles Dickens' _Bleak House_ upon the death of Little Jo: "Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead..."), in poetry (as in W.H. Auden's "Funeral Blues": "The stars are not wanted now: put out every one, / Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun..."), and in music (Giovanni Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater," for one). "Threnody," which we borrowed from the Greek word "threnoidia" (from "threnos," the word for "dirge"), has survived in English since the early 1600s. "Melody" and "tragedy" are related to "threnody" through the Greek root that forms their ending -- "aeidein," which means "to sing." By the same token, "comedy" is related as well.
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Might say, "blowjobs $3" for all she knows.
Only the best goofy dance move on the planet...besides my "lawn mower" or "hedge clipper" or "weed eater." You have your arms straight out in front of you and you rotate your hands parrallelly around in a circle, but there's a body attitude in there that I can't describe. And I do mine REAL nerdly and weird. Then I have my hands go off-sinc of one another in sort of a DOUBLE Cabbage Patch...and faster. I made that "double" one up myself. Heh heh.
Good woman, Dutch!
it is amazing how rock songs, albeit about suggestive topics NEVER sound as bad as rap which lays it all right out there. i have never changed the channel on a rock song for my kids.
Robitussin and Gatoraid
If Mom is only going to humiliate, but Dad is going to slit his wrists-who do you turn to? Your sister? I return to my previous post of this evening. It is a wonderful thing to be wise in your children's eyes...
no, i didn't cringe. i remember being amazed we were talking about all of that stuff but at the same time so thrilled that she felt comfortable enough to ask me about it. they would NEVER ask their father. he would do a dilbert~! i have never reacted in such a way so as to discourage them asking anything. that is why i studiously remain matter of fact and casual, through the blowjob discussion, the masturbation discussion etc. I get xsboy alone in the car on the way to hockey practice and that is my soapbox. He says MOMMY WE HAVE BEEN OVER THIS ALREADY. i said, listen, obviously i am still concerned about it, so we will discuss it til i feel that you have gotten the point!
oh i feel so WITH IT< so HIP!!!
Saran wrap Sounds like something out of the Naked Gun/Police Squad movies.
LOL. OMG.
OMG that was an hysterical scene with the full body condoms! LOL!
Yep, xs. I did the same to my son on the way to hockey practice...and for a while there, practice was an hour away. Heh heh.
Kids in car = captive audience.
hockey practice is ALWAYS far away! LOL!
LOL, Dutchgirl. Did you see Cabbage Patch #4? Go back and take a peek.
My dad practically wets himself with laughter when I watch Dr. Strangelove with him, and the "precious bodily fluids" talk starts.
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