Posted on 09/17/2009 4:03:46 AM PDT by secret garden
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".
logorrhea \law-guh-REE-uh\, noun
1. Pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
2. Incessant or compulsive talkativeness; wearisome volubility.
Example sentences:
By his own measure, he is a man of many contradictions, beginning with the fact that he is famous as a listener but suffers from "a touch of logorrhea." He is so voluble that one wonders how his subjects get a word in edgewise.
-- Mel Gussow, "Listener, Talker, Now Literary Lion: It's Official.", New York Times, June 17, 1997
It's also not good if your date has logorrhea.
-- Monte Williams, "8 Minutes in the Life of a Jewish Single: Not Attracted? Next!", New York Times, March 5, 2000
Mr. King, who possesses an enviable superabundance of imagination, suffers from a less enviable logorrhea.
-- Michele Slung, "Scare Tactics.", New York Times, May 10, 1981
Etymology:
Logorrhea is derived from Greek logos, "word" + rhein, "to flow."
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
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
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
Rise and shine!
The ACORN people in the videos all suffer from logorrhea.
Just think of diarrhea of the mouth.
A for you!
Welcome to WFTD!
A: His lips are moving.
A+ for you.
I didn’t vote for him. Great graphic. A+ for you. Of course now we’ll have to have you rebuked by Congress.
Word
Don’t we all on this thread have this?
Anyway, Financial aid for athletes is not the same as the athletic scholarships given by Division I and II schools.
For the latter consideration is allowed to be made (in fact it is the raison d’etre) for athletic talent in deciding who gets a scholarship.
In the former, athletic talent is not allowed to factor into the decision to offer financial assistance. Which is why the amount of assistance given to athletes versus non-athletes must be equal, as I showed with the data on the last thread.
Maybe you don’t realize this, but at expensive private schools almost no one pays the full tuition. Wealthy people who use their checkbooks, maybe. But anyone with normal working class parents pay tuition based on financial ability. Colleges routinely tap into their endowments in order to provide partial “scholarship” assistance for these students.
Whether they be athletes or not.
The logorrheic MSNBC "host" could use a shot of KO-pectate...
Morning. I see you were up and attem bright and earlier this morning :)
Loggorrhea,
is verbal diarrhea
Bill Clinton has bad logorrhea
And a red nose caused by seborrhea
His favorite gland
Via trysts that he planned
Brought clamydia and gonorrhea
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