Posted on 04/12/2010 5:07:24 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 4/12/10
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".
bowdlerize; verb
1 : to expurgate (as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar 2 : to modify by abridging, simplifying, or distorting in style or content
Etymology:
1830–40; after Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), English editor of an expurgated edition of Shakespeare
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
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....
That is very tempting since the ungrateful shelter cat still has claws on the hind feet.
LOL! clever!! A+++
I saw Glenn Beck recommend it, and picked it up at the bookstore before my last voyage.
We just ended Reconstruction, with a side foray into Indian wars and politics. The Progressives should be up soon.
i am not nearly that far into it and have taken a side trip with some fiction reading. Swan Thieves, which Ti recommended, is very good. Truthy, is that why you posted the pic of the painting Leda?
I posted the painting of Leda and the Swan because the word for the day was “soigne.”
I am reading A Patriot’s History now as well. No fair posting about his book (post 118,119) without pinging LS to the thread...LOL.
LS, I think our whole class must be reading your book!
and you don’t know anything about the book Swan Thieves?
Her last book was good too, The Historian, but I’m afraid this one is too lengthy for my book club. I suggested we skip a month meeting to get it read but no one has responded favorably yet.
I read the Historian while on vaca a few years back. i like long books. after only two sittings with the book i am halfway through it. it is extremely engaging.
Yet irksome idiots' incompetence is insufficient justification for restricting freedoms of everybody else.
thats what i said!!!
with the Swan Thieves I was so disappointed when the book ended....wasn’t long enough for me.
Thanks. Much appreciated.
Thanks. What class is that?
How many people have to die before you think it’s justified to control traffic patterns?
We call the Word for the Day thread as a classroom. and those who post the thread our teachers.
Could do without the sauce.
excellent! they did indeed excise that which would make people uncomfortable and left the innocous mainstream crap in place. A+++
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