Posted on 07/09/2014 5:07:36 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, July 9, 2014-- philology
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".
philology [fi-lol-uh-jee]
noun
1. the study of literary texts and of written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning.
2. (especially in older use) linguistics, especially historical and comparative linguistics.
3. Obsolete . the love of learning and literature.
Origin: Origin: 13501400; Middle English philologie < Latin philologia < Greek philología love of learning and literature, equivalent to philólog ( os ) literary, studious, argumentative + -ia -y3 . See philo-, -logy
Related forms
philological [fil-uh-loj-i-kuh l], philologic, adjective
philologically, adverb
philologist, philologer, noun
nonphilologic, adjective
nonphilological, adjective
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.
which is exactly why I bolded those particular words : )
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Philadelphia kudos.
Obama and his many minions
Seem totally out to lunch-
No knowledge of subtlety
Or philology in the bunch
All their brains seem frozen
On what they choose to see-
When hearing and reading just
What they want a thing to be
The delusional behavior played
Well enough with koolaid crowd-
Now with illegals on their lawn
Their howling is getting loud...
I’ve got no sympathy, none at all for the democrats who are now caught in the vice between their base and the rest of the voters in their districts-they can try to put distance between themselves and the idiot in chief all they want, but the smell is already on them...
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These Phil references are getting SeSe Serious.
I like this one-
“She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah
She reaches in, and grabs right hold of your heart
She seems to have an invisible touch yeah
It takes control and slowly tears you apart”
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Any thinking person who still believes in the Obama myth is not a thinking person.
Nice poetry, by the way.
Thank you!
And-a mind is a terrible thing to lose, according to Animal House....
Having left on the classic rock station that plays disco and other 70’s stuff when I went to sleep, I woke up with this earworm-
“So rock me gently, rock me slowly
Take it easy, don’t you know
That I have never been loved like this before.
Baby, baby
Rock me gently, rock me slowly
Take it easy don’t you know
That I have never been loved like this before”...
I listened to AC/DC and Led Zeppelin on the way to work...
Whew, I’m glad you were able to purge your brain of bubble gum.
Those bubblegum tunes are cutesy and catchy-that is why we remember them after so long, words and all...
There are some little rain showers wandering around-raining while the sun is out, which I enjoy-so I went for a walk in the rain with Husky girl, down to the river. Now we’re back, me with wet clothes and hair, but her thick fur is made to keep her dry in arctic sleet and snow-when we got back to the yard, she shook the water off and pranced around for awhile before we came in-now she is eating her dinner and is just barely damp...
That’s what makes it so hard to get them clean during baths! Those heavy double coats are high maintenance. Please send us some rain.
Yes-I comb Husky girl every day when I take her out before work in the morning-and there is still another pound or two of fur to comb out the next day, all summer long. Bathing her happens several times in the summer, and involves soaping and prolonged scrubbing with fingers, drying with several towels and sitting outside for an hour or so to keep her from rolling in the grass and dirt, until she is reasonably dry before returning indoors...
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