Word For The Day, Friday, 9/20/02

The Verbivores | 9/20/02 | Teacher

[RikaStrom]

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”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of 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....

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dilettante \DIL-uh-tahnt; dil-uh-TAHNT; dil-uh-TAHN-tee; -TANT; TAN-tee\, noun; :
dilettantes, also dilettanti \-TAHN-tee; -TAN-\; plural
dilettante, dilettantish; adjective
dilettantism; noun

1. An admirer or lover of the fine arts.
2. An amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge sporadically, superficially, or for amusement only.
3. Of or characteristic of a dilettante; amateurish
4. An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only.

At first his colleagues tended to dismiss this witty young dilettante poet as a scientific lightweight, even if he was an agreeable addition to their dinner table.
--"Dr Alex Comfort," Times (London), March 28, 2000

Etymology: Italian, from present participle of dilettare to delight, from Latin dilectare. Date: 1748

[xsmommy]

hm. some chance.

[maxwell]

Dagnabbit now I got all these chicks after me! It was supposed to be FUNNY, y'all! [snortle]

FINE...

A blonde buys a handgun at a local pawn shop because she thinks her husband is cheating on her. When she gets home, she finds her husband in bed with a another woman. The blonde grabs the gun out of her purse, loads it and points it at her own head.

Her husband seeing this starts screaming at her not to shoot.

The blonde replies, "Shut up stupid! You're next!"

[xsmommy]

i am not blonde, so i can laugh at that. but you still have a ways to go to cheer ME up, maxie.....

[hobbes1]

Oh Admit it, you like a little, every now and again....

[hobbes1]

Gee, wonder how Miss Rika is going to like that one ;)

[SCalGal]

She is a princess, even though she took the brownies camping.

[maxwell]

[sigh] My proverbial goose is cooked, ain't it dude...

You think if I go for a smoke break they'll forget about it by the time I come back?

[hobbes1]

Of course, they're women.

Just drop off a shoe store link, and go for a smoke, by the time you get back they will be lucky to remember their own names.

[xsmommy]

while i am of eastern european extraction, the thought of being yugoslavian is depressing me, and it is all your fault....

[xsmommy]

thank you for vouching for me!

[SCalGal]

I intend to continue to be immature for my age. Anything else is just too depressing.

[xsmommy]

i agree! want to come play in the sandbox???

[doubled]

But you can do great things with camera angles, and who knows where daschles soap box/footstool is at that moment?

[xsmommy]

i did think of that, it is possible that the handsome lds and lovely affianced are standing on some people's shoulders....

[white rose]

Mornin'.

The always excellent Charles Krauthammer is using his Friday column to analyze the strangely dilettantish way the Democrats are dealing with the issue of Iraq.

[SCalGal]

Sure! I have some extra measuring cups to bring!

[NeoCaveman]

These dilletantes, peacenicks calling for detante, their brains must suffer from desuetude.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

XS - I don't do sand, unless we're talking about the beach, but I did like the idea of the link for shoes........that might cheer me up........

[xsmommy]

i am kind of shoe'd out but you guys feel free. i actually went shopping last evening and sated myself some! the dye job tomorrow will lift my spirits. i am finally going to see my beloved Giammi, after putting up with stand-ins for most of the summer.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Oh God.....if I hadn't had nails AND hair done this week, that Yugoslavia thing would have killed me..............lol

(Do you think Maxie is crying yet? lol)