Posted on 03/06/2014 4:53:16 AM PST by secret garden
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".
zeitgeber \TSYTE-gay-ber\ noun
an environmental agent or event that provides the stimulus setting or resetting a biological clock of an organism.
Example sentences:
"Food availability seems to be a weaker zeitgeber than light. Although food is more essential than light for an animal's survival, light exerts a finer control than food availability over the activity rhythm."
— From Roberto Refinetti's 2006 book Circadian Physiology, Second Edition
"Night-shift workers also struggle, he says, because they don't get the environmental and social cues that help adjust the circadian clock. The most important of these cues, called zeitgebers … is sunlight. But a zeitgeber could also be a scrambled-egg breakfast or children coming home from school in the afternoon."
— From an article by Tara Parker-Pope in New York Times Magazine, November 20, 2011
Etymology:
Zeitgebers are nature's alarm clocks—both biologically and etymologically. The word "zeitgeber" derives from a combination of two German terms, "Zeit," which means "time," and "Geber," which means "giver"—so a "zeitgeber" is literally a "time giver." In nature, zeitgebers tend to be cyclic or recurring patterns that help keep the body's circadian rhythms operating in an orderly way. For plants and animals, the daily pattern of light and darkness and the warmer and colder temperatures between day and night serve as zeitgebers, cues that keep organisms functioning on a regular schedule. For humans, societally imposed cycles, such as the schedule of the work or school day and regular mealtimes, can become zeitgebers as well.
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....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
That’s it exactly!
Awhile back, I referred to a Chinese food parody, and I just saw it on another thread-
“Did you ever think when you eat Chinese,
It ain’t pork or chicken but a fat Siamese?
Yet the food tastes great, so you don’t complain.
But that’s not chicken in your chicken chow mein.
Seems to me I ordered sweet-and-sour pork
But Garfield’s on my fork.
He’s purrin here on my fork.
There’s a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon,
The place that I eat every day at noon.
They can feed you cat and you’ll never know,
Once they wrap it up in dough, boy.
They fry it real crisp in dough.”
Medea Benjamin was incarcerated in Egypt. Thread was about a code pink protest to be held at Egyptian embassy.
Have you ever had an amber alert come over your phone? Xshub and I were en route to DE and had just passed Balt on 95 north when my phone started vibrating and an amber alert for a little girl from Dundalk Md flashed on my screen a few seconds letter xshubs phone via Bluetooth started buzzing through the speakers and his screen then flashed the amber alert. He thought it was bc we had just passed Dundalk. But 2 weeks ago I was in Alexandria and the same thing happened but the alert was for Orange VA. Weird.
I don’t think I have that function enabled.
who?
Insert “Canadian bacon” joke here.
Delish curling soft porn @ Post 35 there....
I thought she was Russian.
well yeah, that is very true. I guess the thread went off track there and dealt more with the porn, and less with Canadian. And I followed where ever the track went, for dupa = caboose.
It’s easy to see how she might have distracted you.
I have somehow wandered into an alternate reality-earlier this afternoon, I was getting ready to leave to do a bid when a truck pulled up and a friendly, very normal man my age got out and introduced himself as the owner of this property. It seems that the less than sterling character whose name I was given by people is NOT the owner, but was a caretaker.
The man and his also very nice wife have been trying to get ahold of the realtor to no avail, and were not aware that I was here, that I have a lease, and they have gotten none of the money I’ve paid. They had planned to move back here, tear the place down and build a cabin. We spent 30 minutes apologizing to each other for our foolish trust of a certain realtor-we will meet tomorrow to figure out how to manage this fuster cluck, and how to provide a certain realtor with a come-to-Jesus moment. Aiyeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!
“Help, I’m slipping into the twilight zone
The place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned”...
That is certainly bizarre.
I hope it works out for you.
That is a nightmare. I hope it gets resolved in your favor because you were certainly a victim here. Perhaps they would like to hire YOU as the caretaker instead. That would be a fair option.
Europe had FOUR indigenous languages: Greek, Latin, Celtic (pronounced with a "k" sound) and German. All the European languages came from them. English came primarily from the Germanic language. Go ahead and look it up if you don't believe me.
The Scandinavian languages came from German too. German was also the root of the Slavic languages...and Russian got its roots from the Slavic languages.
From the Internet:
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Gaelic is Celtic but it belongs to a different branch of Celtic than neighboring Welsh.
Gaelic belongs to a branch of Celtic called "Goidelic" while " "Welsh" belongs to a branch of Celtic called "Brythonic."
Manx is the only other member of the "Goidelic" branch of Celtic. Its last speaker died in either 1957, 1962 or 1965 depending on whose accounts you go by.
The Brythonic group to which Welsh belongs to is much larger. It includes Cornish (extinct since 1777), the ancient Gaulish of France, Belgium and Switzerland (extinct since the 7th century A.D.), the Celtiberian of ancient Spain and Portugal and the Galatian of Asia Minor spoken near modern day Ankara, Turkey (extinct probably since the 8th century A.D.).
Breton is a Brythonic Celtic language still spoken by a few hundred thousand people in Western France, however linguists are not certain whether it is descendant of ancient Gaulish or an offshoot of Welsh and Cornish.
The Celts originally lived in southern Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Germany but were forced out of Central Europe by their Germanic neighbors beginning around 300 B.C. The Germanic tribes in turn, were under pressure from the Slavs who were under pressure from the Huns. So you had an entire chain reaction of events going on here at that time.
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The Study of languages is very interesting, isn't it?
Agreed. Linguistics are fascinating, because they are intermingled with history and who can resist a good story?
AND, the stories morph into SO MUCH more, don't they? :o)
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