Posted on 08/29/2011 5:09:54 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 8/29/11
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".
ambagious;adj
Circuitous, rambling, garbled, misleading. "Myna Bird gave such an ambagious speech at the conference that no one could think of a question to ask her when it concluded." Unlike ambiguous, which refers to vagueness and multiple interpretations, ambagious refers to twisting and winding in speech: "I think that anyone willing to navigate the ambagious language of the document could find a useful insight or two buried in it."
Etymology: The noun underlying today's Good Word is a back-formation from Middle English ambages "equivocation", the feminine singular Latin ambages "evasion, digression". The Latin word came from the same source as ambiguus "ambiguous", a combination of the prefix ambi-, "both, about, around" + agere "to move, drive". Ambi- also appears in ambidextrous, originally "both-right-handed". The root of agere can be found in a plethora of words borrowed from Latin, including agent, act, and agile.
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.
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
That.....was.....
AWESOME!
Here’s one that will kill your day.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/early_obama_letter_confirms_inability_to_write.html
Pathetic.
I tweeted that this morning. 2 people unfollowed me. Do I care? Nooooooooooo!
We know. Bill Ayers wrote his book.
Not sure who wrote his second.
You had obamabots following you?
Dude! I’m on twitter now. But I only follow Craig Ferguson, hockey, and knitting stuff so far. Weird, I know.
I’m @Cholerajoe. Follow me. Hobbes, Neo and XS are on Twitter too.
Apparently some of the medical peeps I follow were Obots. Especially the ones on the left coast.
That must be you that just followed me.
LOL........yeah.
You are a lovable old coot!!
We are the A list ; )
That’s debatable sometimes. Some snot-nosed nurse tried trash-talking me this morning and I told her I was practicing medicine before she was born, but in more explicit terms.
I make it a point to avoid pedants. There’s a published list of them in our community to keep our kids safe.
You’re an A something. ;-)
“So could i make a martini with them?” Sure, but don’t go drinking with any pedants.
I’m sure the list has some errors on it.
I tweeted Neos link to JPOD. Think I shocked him. Forgot to include the NSFW tag.
Haha.....I was waiting for the scene where the girl comforts the other....”I warned you not to google SCOAMF”
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