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Saturday, February 16, 2008
ToDaZeD New Catch Phrase
subtle and vicious? or unintended brilliance?
No matter the desires of Rice, Gates, Bush, Obama, Cliinton, or any politician, we must abandon the arrogant anthropomorphic, critical progressive idea that peace as we envision it is the goal of all thinking men.
anthropomorphic ? I’m so stealing that!
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Words!! We Need More Words!!
some of Merriam-Webster’s newest
So who has heard which of these?
1. agnolotti
2. Bollywood
3. chaebol
4. crunk
5. DVR
6. flex-cuff
7. ginormous
9. hardscape
10. IED
11. microgreen
12. nocebo
13. perfect storm
14. RPG
15. smackdown
16. snowboardcross
17. speed dating
18. sudoku
19. telenovela
20. viewshed
Sunday, October 15, 2006
What is happening to my language?!?
it is to gag a maggot
I heard it once, and shuddered. I heard it again; thought it a coincidence. I’m hearing it again and again and again—and I just read it twice in as many days. It is abominable. It is unconscionable. It is wholly ‘unassepable.’
No human over the age of two and a half ought ever to use the phrase, “it’s a no-no.”
Please. I beg of you. By any means necessary; Make Them STOP!
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Thursday, June 16, 2005
Filibuster
ever wonder where the concept originated?
Mr. Kurtz brings us this:
Dutch Pirates were known as kapers or vrijbuiters ("plunderers"), the latter combining the words vrij meaning free, buit meaning loot, and the ending -er meaning agent. The word vrijbuiter was corrupted into the English freebooters and French flibustiers . It came back into English as filibusters
Frentch—the language of diplomacy and nuance—gives us the diplomatic term for running off with the point like a dog with the Sunday roast.
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Sunday, May 22, 2005
More new terms
ThanQ! Francis W. Porretto
random googling produces:
taqiyya: (pronounced tark-e-ya) precautionary dissimulation or deception and keeping one’s convictions secret
kitman: mental reservation and dissimulation or concealment of malevolent intentions [political context]
Taqiyya and kitman or ‘holy hypocrisy’ has been diffused throughout Arabic culture for over fourteen hundred years since it was developed by Shiites as a means of defence and concealment of beliefs against Sunni unbelievers.
the Prophet said: ‘he who keeps secrets shall soon attain his objectives.’
‘the mujahadeen can take the shape of the enemy’
taquyya against the unbelievers is considered a virtue and a religious duty
A favored tactic was ‘deceptive triangulation’; to persuade the enemy that jihad was not aimed at them but at another enemy. Another tactic was to deny that there was jihad at all. The fate for such faulty assessments by the target was death.
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Good yet random stuff
Y’all know I love collecting new words. From LifeTrek comes Mushrikoon: polytheists, pagans, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allaah, and in the Message of Muhammad. [I believe I qualify having noticed and pointed out on several occasions that Mohammad starts with “ mo’ ham” and ends up “mad” in the end.]
This gem came from LifeTrek’s investigation of Desecration of the Koran 101—interesting and informative.
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Monty [Transmissions from the Heliopause] continues the alNewsweak discussion:
Words are powerful. The American Founding Fathers understood their power, and took appropriate measures to make sure that Americans would always enjoy their right to speak freely. However, this power brings with it the responsibility to use it wisely.
...It means practicing a personal kind of censorship, where one performs a kind of cost/benefit analysis of speech.
Yeah. That whole Adult/Responsibility/Privilege, thing that has fallen into such disfavor of late.
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Best Line of the Week!
You mistake your rather florid emotional outbursts for persuasive discourse.
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Friday, May 13, 2005
A Definition I like
Patriotism... the devotion to a set of ideals, rooted in history, and attached to a specific place. [Jonah Goldberg]
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Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Word Play for a Rainy Day!
waiting for a sucker hole so I can go re-wrap a hoof...
English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 80% Expert!
You did so extremely well, even I can’t find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don’t. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you’re not afraid to use it properly! Way to go!
Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!
To take the test, *click*
For the complete Answer Key, visit my blog: http://shortredhead78.blogspot.com/.
Ok—not real sure about the scoring from okcupid, but as checked against the answer key, I gots me 3 wrong. Not so dusty fer a simple tootsie from The Country™.
et y’all?
ThanQ! Across the Atlantic
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Bogons
Hypothetical particles of cluelessness. Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting the machinery work again.
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Autodarwinate
The action that follows the shout; “Gene Police! You!! Out of the pool! Now!!”
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Saturday, August 28, 2004
More Play
yep, I'm working on something and, yep, I'll share it I need your help. I am working to pin down the definition of a particular word. I know what the dictionary says but I'm looking for the current, cultural definition. Tell me what first pops into your head when you encounter the word ATHEIST. Thanks!Let's All Play
you know you wanna... I need your help. I am working to pin down the definition of the word SECULARIST. I know what the dictionary says but I'm looking for the current, cultural definition. Tell me what first pops into your head when you encounter the word SECULARIST. Thanks!Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Get out your dictionaries and your red pens -- again
time to learn more 'newspeak' I love words. I mean, I really, really love words. Words are the tools with which we grasp ideas, concepts and passions. Tim Taylor's got nuthin' on me in appreciation for these tools. arrrr arrrrgh aaaarrrrghghghg Which is why this using-words-that-usta-mean-one-thing-to-obfuscate-another crap just pisses me off! The latest word to be tormented thus; nuance. Nuance used to be one of my favorite words. Itanother Kerry nanonuance
Sunday, June 13, 2004
A Bit o' Anfractuous Gallimaufry
Now, *this* is fun. 155 the first time thru, and, after looking up all the unknowns [because I can't stand not to know...], I managed 186. Am I dim or is it really tough? You? ThanQ! JimThursday, January 29, 2004
Ya mean it's catching?!?
Yep, Acquired Situational Narcissism as described by Robert B. Millman, medical advisor to Major League Baseball, is that lovely tendency of celebrities to think the world begins and ends at their own nose. Regular Narcissistic Personality Disorder, a painful, lifelong condition, involves the following characteristics - paraphrased: -- expects to be recognized as superior out of proportion to any achievement; --preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited power, success, brilliance, ideal love; -- believes that s/he is "special and unique" and should only have to associate with other special or high-status people/institutions; -- requires and demands excessive admiration; -- sense of entitlement, unreasonable expectations of favorable treatment and of others automatically going along with his/her every whim; -- takes advantage of others to meet own needs/desires; -- unable to recognize or identify with the feelings of others, lacks empathy; -- haughty, arrogant behaviors [impatience, anger when things don't go his/her way] Some [more than 5] or all of these things come together to have a severe, negative impact and influence in the person's life. [Many of these charatcteristics are recognizable in ourselves or others to a lesser degree -- the true disorder prevents normal relationships and normal functioning to a severe degree.] The condition results from an incomplete maturing around age 2-4 when we move from the limited, self-centered world of a wholly dependent infant to recognizing that others are like us and need to be considered. The acquired part of the condition Millman describes occurs when the power of fame/money change how the people around the individual relate to him. Being unable to walk down the street without being mobbed by adoring fans, even the closest relationships are so unbalanced by the power differences that the only reflections the individual receives from anyone is "oh, you're great, oh you're wonderful, please don't hurt/fire/crush me..." One down sycophancy.This includes the celebrity's usual planetary system of assistants, publicists, agents, lawyers and groupies. But it also includes us, the public. We're all complicit in acquired situational narcissism. ''We've created it,'' says Millman. ''They're just responding to us.'' ...So why is acquired situational narcissism a problem? It's not, for us or for E! or for the tabloids or for VH1's ''Behind the Music.'' It is, however, for the acquired situational narcissists. Their marriages fall apart, they make lousy parents, they take copious quantities of drugs, they get into trouble with the law. ''Because they truly don't believe the world is real,'' Millman says, ''they begin to think they're invulnerable. Some even risk their lives, since the world can't hurt them if it's not real.'' ..."I have high-class problems!"
Seems like Millman has come up with a good handle to describe a phenomenon we all recognize on sight.
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