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.
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You afraid you were omitted? ; )
Well sounds like she was begging to be thrashed.
Great article - he’s a buffoon and so is that gigantor beard he married.
James Harrison in Drag.
Saw that. I could almost imagine him blushing.
She took it well and made a comment that I had bypassed the decaf and gone straight to evil this morning.
I got an immediate WOW.
Felt bad
I’m not wild about the font.
How did Sarah like the concert? Was there dope?
No dope that I could see or smell. Some drunk chicks shaking what they got like they were looking for their stripper poles.
It was a good counter-example. The wife said “that’s how you don’t behave if you want to be respected.”
The concert was really good. Sarah got wiped out and was ready to go to sleep about 5 songs into Journey’s set. The neighbor kid we brought along actually did fall asleep.
Ant speech by obama’s financial “experts” are ambagious indeed, because they are avoiding the truth that they and their bankster bosses have created a debacle!!!!
But without a teleprompter, obama’s speeches are beyond ambagious! They are a series of “uhs” and “I-I-I’s”, because obama doesn’t know what he is talking about, and is narcissistic to the extreme.
Well, teacher, I’m a day late, because of this one-day Orthodox fast:
http://www.stjohndc.org/Russian/feasts/e_stjohn_behead_popovic.htm
(The homily is by one of my favorite Saints, St. Justin of Celije, a Serb who was canonized in 2010.)
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