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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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
I mean, it’s not all just right out there in black and white for God and everybody to see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSSM_200
Oh wait, it is.
well then good grief, let’s get to killing them off already! it’s THE PLAN!
Oh you think we aren’t part of the THEM?
He is an Ex-Terrorist! He’s just resting!
bring it!
Glenn told you how’d they bring it.
Bottom up,
Top down,
Inside out.
I think you’d at least want to be armed first. I’m going down swinging. err shooting.
I seem to remember something in Revelation about Famine and high food prices. Wasn’t that after the earthquakes, pestilence and war?
We are “stuck” down here at the magnificent Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC, after a family wedding. We haven’t had a drop of rain here (it’s in the western part of the state) but our return to Newark Airport was canceled. The first available flight is tomorrow. We had to pay for the “extra legroom” in order to guarantee our seats.
Truth’sBabyGirl got out of Brooklyn due to the Armaggedon that Bloomberg predicted. She is a few days short of being exactly nine months’ pregnant, and was fearful that her route to the hospital might have been inaccessible. She is nesting at my home in NJ, secure in the knowledge that our next-door neighbor is a retired ob/gyn who has great contacts in the town, and who, as a last resort, could probably deliver my new grandson on the kitchen table.
Oh look, electricity rates "necessarily" skyrocketing
YOu know i actually thought of your baby girl this past weekend because i recalled that her due date was imminent and i worried about what Irene was going to do and hoped she wouldn’t go into labor! You could be stuck in worse places!!! but it is aggravating to have the weather dictate your travel, i know. i hope your new grandson doesn’t end up on the kitchen table!!
i know it. scary.
it’s all in there and it really does feel like we are living it. look for locusts soon.
perfect! A+++
Thanks. Just spoke to her. She will be heading back to Brooklyn tonight. No serious labor activity today (unless there’s something going on at SEIU.)
On that subject, check out our business columnist:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_753828.html
I’d use the coffee table.
WOW.
I hope the last thing he sees is a navy seal with his gun pointed at him. Die already!
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