;Posted on 02/19/2014 5:20:36 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, February 19, 2014-- forte
;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".
forte [fawrt, fohrt or for 1, fawr-tey]
noun
1. a person's strong suit, or most highly developed characteristic, talent, or skill; something that one excels in: I don't know what her forte is, but it's not music. Synonyms: talent, skill, excellence, strength, strong point, specialty, proficiency; knack, bent.
2. the stronger part of a sword blade, between the middle and the hilt (opposed to foible ).
3. A musical direction meaning “to be performed loudly”; the opposite of piano.
Pronunciation note:
In the sense of a person's strong suit ( He draws well, but sculpture is his real forte ), the older and historical pronunciation of forte is the one-syllable [fawrt] or [fohrt] pronounced as the English word fort. The word is derived from the French word fort, meaning “strong.” A two-syllable pronunciation [fawr-tey] is increasingly heard, especially from younger educated speakers, perhaps owing to confusion with the musical term forte, pronounced in English as [fawr-tey] and in Italian as [fawr-te]. Both the one- and two-syllable pronunciations of forte are now considered standard.
Origin: 1715–25; < Italian < Latin fortis strong
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and your pride of course ; )
it’s funny, my SIL was texting me about the Russians losing. She doesn’t follow hockey and if pressed would consider herself a Pens fan from living there, but she said the announcers were ragging on Ovie. I said, well Milbury and Roenick hate ovie and never miss a chance to rag on him. She said isn’t that funny, i didn’t know that but i could certainly tell from what i just saw.
I thought pride goeth BEFORE a fall....
it hit first...
Haha - sorry if my spelling was bad - my internet was out so I was using my phone...tiny letters
i do not know what to do about the damn fox in our neighorhood. he is driving my dogs nuts. his scent is ALL over the yard. i let them out this AM and i could not get Jules back in, he was down in that front corner frantically barking [at 6:15 am, sure the neighbors must love me] and actually breached the perimeter in that corner. he has not worn the electric collar for awhile, bc it’s too small for his fat neck [immediately emailed for a new replacement collar that i can refit the device into, hopefully] but now that he saw he could go outside of the known perimeter, i am going to have to watch him. he’s always been the one up by me on the front steps while Chan goes wild barking in the corner, he was doing it today and she was up top with me. the neighbor says there are several of the foxes, but we have never seen more than one at once.
your spelling was fine, i meant his pride hit the driveway before his butt ; )
if anyone in my house was technologically inclined, i almost wonder if having a motion detector setting off a voice recording to tell him to beat it would work. he runs when he hears my voice.
Maybe your local animal control officer can trap him.
Oh I got that - it was good
You probably wouldn’t like my fix for the fox... but he wouldn’t bother your dogs anymore.
poison? might kill a dog though, not worth the risk.
bb gun?
we don’t own one, just a real gun and pretty sure you just can’t go discharging that in the neighborhood! LOL!
Well it was a thought...
California
The Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks the Governor’s dog, then bites the Governor.
The Governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie”Bambi” and then realizes he should stop because the coyote is only doing what is natural.
He calls animal control. Animal Control captures the coyote and bills the state $200 testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating it.
He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and bills the State $200 testing it for diseases.
The Governor goes to hospital and spends $3,500 getting checked for diseases from the coyote and on getting his bite wound bandaged.
The running trail gets shut down for 6 months while Fish & Game conducts a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is now free of dangerous animals.
The Governor spends $50,000 in state funds implementing a “coyote awareness program” for residents of the area. The State Legislature spends $2 million to study how to better treat rabies and how to permanently eradicate the disease throughout the world.
The Governor’s security agent is fired for not stopping the attack. The state spends $150,000 to hire and train a new agent with additional special training re the nature of coyotes.
PETA protests the coyote’s relocation and files a $5 million suit against the state.
TEXAS
The Governor of Texas is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks his dog. The Governor shoots the coyote with his state-issued pistol and keeps jogging. The Governor has spent $.50 on a .45 ACP hollow point cartridge.
The buzzards eat the dead coyote.
And that, my friends, is why California is broke and Texas is not.
For a follow-up, can you tell us a story about The Cougar Principle next? Type slowly....
people in my ofc had me worrying about Oshie, the dog who now resides in the hockey house, saying if he isn’t walked enough he will tear the house up etc. So i emailed xsboy to ask how it was going, and he said that he’s been very little trouble so far, that he’s walked multiple times per day and they have a little room for him to be in when everyone is in class, but that mostly there was always someone at home with him. There are like 8 guys living there, so it would be rare that all would be gone to class at the same time.
I apologize ahead-but considering my upbringing, where I prefer to live and the way I was taught to deal with wild animals, unless it is a rabid animal, or a threat I don’t have any ideas for a fox deterrent that involves killing by any means-obviously, rabid animals need to be put down. I live in the animals’ dining room, not the other way around. The house we had in the city was on a 7 mile long greenbelt and park along a creek, too, so critters were always around there-I don’t have any real critters in the city experience.
Properties are fenced out here because of livestock, but if Husky girl was balking and getting out, my solution to that is her harness and a long retractable leash-gives plenty of freedom but stops short of letting her escape. I solve the problem of critters here by not having any food other than birdseed near the house-I feed the deer outside the fence by the river. You could shoot or poison every fox or raccoon within 50 miles, but if your neighbors feed their pets outside, it will tempt creatures to come into the yard, no matter what you do.
A city is not an animal-friendly place like the country, but I’ve lived in 2 burbs in the past and all the homes had fences in those neighborhoods-not pretty, maybe, but safe for kids and pets.
Foxes are not really pests here, but I’m guessing we don’t have as many of them as in your area.
At the risk of being a humorless bitch-I do live in the boonies with the wildlife, and a fox is not a coyote, which are often a feral dog/coyote hybrid-not afraid of humans, and can be very dangerous-the guv could have been bitten if he had not shot the coyote. Foxes are not dangerous to humans unless they are rabid.
A fox is not a cougar/mountain lion, which avoids humans unless fed domestic pets by dumb people who leave their dogs and cats outside in cougar territory-think California... Cougars are protected, and are not put down unless they attack a human-last time it happened anywhere close was 10 year ago, nearly 100 miles from here on a bike trail in the hills.
Now that I’ve likely got everyone calling me a lover of dangerous animals, I must go meet my compadre to double up on a customer of his who is giving him a hard time.
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