;Posted on 09/19/2012 5:01:47 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, September 19, 2019-- galvanize
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galvanize [gal-vuh-nahyz]
verb, transitive
1. to stimulate to action; excite; startle
2. to cover (iron, steel, etc) with a protective zinc coating by dipping into molten zinc or by electrode position
3. to stimulate by application of an electric current
Origin: 1795–1805; < French galvaniser, named after Luigi Galvani
Related forms gal•va•nized, gal•va•niz•ing, gal•va•niz•a•tion.
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
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Great.
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I’m easy.
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Perfect. I thought someone might go with “gal-van-eyes” but yours is much more creative.
i like ‘em easy ; )
I knew who you meant.
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Very clever. Hot stuff. Boiling. 212 degrees Fahrenheit. 100 degrees Celsius. Not sure where it falls on the Galvan scale.
Thank you!
I think putting up that old tape of O talking about how much he loves redistribution (AKA highway robbery) was probably a good idea-I know it makes me see red in more ways than one...
On a silly note-one day years ago, I came home from work to find my then-12 year old daughter watching a novella on Spanish language TV-she has been watching that stuff ever since. She told me recently about a show on Telemundo called “Decisiones”-she said mom, it is re-runs, but it is hilarious, you have got to watch it sometime.
A couple of nights ago, I worked late on some bid stuff, and wasn’t really tired, so I went channel surfing and saw that show was on Telemundo-for lack of anything better, I started watching it-and was howling with laughter in less than 5 minutes. Constant female hysterics, yelling, fighting non-stop sex, barely dressed people, people who just walk into someone’s house and listen at doors and look in windows , etc. It is even more of a parody of a drama than most of those shows are. I’m ashamed of myself for enjoying it...
telenovelas are hilarious! so melodramatic!
my dearly departed dad did not speak a word of spanish, but he loved SABADO GIGANTE and often watched Telemundo and Univision when visiting me.
Drama and what would be dozens of outtakes on US TV-in one scene, the male lead’s wife went to work, and he raced out the door to his mistress’s house, barged in, and grabbed her rather hefty butt with both hands and lifted her up as she threw her legs around his waist, giggling. He wasn’t a very big guy, so when he roared in delight and whirled around in a circle with her on the way to the bedroom, he stumbled under her weight, bashed both of them into a wall and knocked some pictures and ornaments to the floor-apparently, no one yelled “cut”, because they just continued into the bedroom-it was hilarious.
My daughter also likes some dating game thing called “12 Corazones”, but I haven’t seen that one. She understands Spanish, but does not speak it well. Like most kids(of all ethnicities) from the valley/border, I grew up speaking TexMex dialect as a second language-not “proper” Spanish, but what is in use.
That’s that Latin passion. Gringos, on the other hand, design beds so that you can jump up and down on one side while a glass of wine sitting on the other doesn’t move.
Which just means you don’t use a lisp...
That, like so much, depends on the tone in which the question is delivered...
(But then again, when do you ever see this type of ad for a VAN ;)
I Thought that was just in Spain, and more in the area near Barcelona
great point...
I think only those who are from Spain use a “lithp”-I’ve never actually heard a real person speak Spanish like that-only on a couple of historical dramas on BBC America.
TexMex is considered vulgar in parts of Mexico far from the US border, for whatever reason, and I had some enbarrassing moments when on vacation in the interior because of the differences in dialects...
I’ll keep the Latin passion, just the same.
I don’t have one of those beds, but I’m betting that those commercials use creative camera work-in the real world, that wine likely would be all over the place...
Have you decided on the Collie pup yet? And how is your thunder shirt debunker dog doing?
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