Posted on 06/10/2013 5:19:45 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, D6/10/13
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".
alterity; noun
: otherness; specifically : the quality or state of being radically alien to the conscious self or a particular cultural orientation
Etymology: Late Latin alteritat-, alteritas, from alter First Known Use: 1642
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....
The term is also deployed outside of philosophy, notably in anthropology by scholars such as Nicholas Dirks, Johannes Fabian, Michael Taussig and Pauline Turner Strong to refer to the construction of "cultural others". The term has gained further use in seemingly somewhat remote disciplines, e.g. historical musicology where it is effectively employed by John Michael Cooper in a study of Goethe and Mendelssohn.[
Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!Here is my example with WFTD.
I have a distinct sense of alterity in today's culture.
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
No pushing at the door please!
rainydays and mondays, and especially rainyday mondays, always get me down : )
Obama’s expanded surveillance state existing in alterity to the Constitution.
A+++ Good to see you, dirtboy. Yes, imagine the shrieks and wails from the left, were it a republican, yet they are so complacent under Obams.
Sounds like a “squish” of “alternate reality” - you know, like Satan offered up in Genesis 3, beginning the religion of Humanism that the left adheres to to this day.
good point. A+++
and ballads. Don't forget ballads.
scary as all get out, but those hashtags are funny as hell. A+++
now i am irretrievably depressed!
it is the one power I have over women
There are uglier hockey players.
Yes and yes.
Thanks for the grade.
Free enterprise enabled prosperity
But the libs want a Commie alterity
Take the fruits of the makers
To assuage all the takers
It helps if you can lie with sincerity
Alterity is a condition suffered by alter natives wherein choice is endless but once the alter native population was reduced decision making became easier
of course, but i just don’t see the swoon-factor with sid.
wonderful!! A+++
i like the concept of alter natives. A+++
He has a boyish charm.
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