Posted on 07/19/2005 5:34:51 AM PDT by Slip18
Thursday, April 7, 2005
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”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
Subbie Slip has her whip, handcuffs and legcuffs today.
The rest of the stuff is locked up in my drawer. I’m just letting all the new students know that we behave as if we were ladies and gentlemen in here. Those two words “as if” can get you an A if you make the subbie laugh.
Verb/noun:
Pronunciation: tus/el
Etymology: I don’t know.
1) (verb) To struggle, especially roughly or violently: scuffle. Syn: wrestle
2) (Noun) A physical contest or struggle: scuffle
3) A rough argumentor struggle against difficult odds for success.
Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!
Good morning to you, Slippie, and to the lovely and gracious xsmommy as well! How are my two favorite verbophilic instructors?
i never read any of HPotter. xsbrownie doesn't like anything remotely dark or scary, so it is not for her. xsteen has read them and i got her the new one this weekend, but she isn't a dork about it like most of her friends are. Personally, my beef is with anything that glorifies and glamorizes the occult.
that sounds dirty... ; )
And I mean it in every sense of the made-up word, my dears! ;-P
A++++ for you, xs!
Wonder what it means to Mort. Maybe "Verbivores," then came "verbapholic." That's gotta be it.
My 9-yr-old finished it yesterday. I dunno, doesn't feel so much like occult as just Fantasy genre. I've read the same story a hundred times before. Any kid that uses HP as a bridge to Satanism was probably headed there anyway.
Now, you want scary....I read "The Amityville Horror" in about two days when I was 11, and THAT was a mistake. Did not sleep for at least a week. That was horrible because it really did feel like the occult. Ugh, still gives me the willies.
I hate to complain, but isn't it "tussle?"
But it wouldn't be much of a tussle for you to read something that glorifies and glamorizes sex, right? Us aspiring writers wanna know.
Mornin' from Bug Tussle...
well they are ostensibly witches and warlocks which are commonly recognized occult figures and they are apparently the "good guys" in the Potter books. as the Pope, when he was Cardinal Ratzinger said, it tends to blur the distinctions and i just don't think kids need that. i think bright lines are goods when teaching kids. I am far from a book burner and don't begrudge anyone reading it, but i just don't like the idea of it, basically.
All the backseat tusseling around here went on at either Fort Marcy Park, or Lady Bird Johnson Park...
32?
Bet I know the answer...LOL
Well, a verbivore devours words. A Verbophile loves them. Therefore, being verbophilic allows one to share their love of word power with others, whilst verbivorically enriching one's own vocabulary!
(Nothing dirty at all... Just suggestive!) ;-P
um, i'm talking about kids. and i am kind of past the sex book stage.
When I read Insomnia by King...it gave me insomnia.
ugh.
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