Posted on 08/25/2010 6:49:49 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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".
carceral \KAHR-suh-rul\ • adjective 
of, relating to, or suggesting a jail or prison
Example sentence:
Every time John walked by the old hospital he was haunted by the abandoned building’s imposing carceral towers and tiny windows
Did you know?
Describing a painting of John Howard visiting a prison in 1787, Robert Hughes wrote that Howard was "the pioneer of English carceral reform" (Time Magazine, November 11, 1985). "Prison reform" might be the more common phrase, but the use of "carceral" was by no means unprecedented. Vladimir Nabokov, in his inimitable prose, described a prison scene in Invitation to a Beheading thusly: "The door opened, whining, rattling and groaning in keeping with all the rules of carceral counterpoint." An adjective borrowed directly from Late Latin, "carceral" appeared shortly after "incarcerate" ("to imprison"), which first showed up in English around the mid-1500s; they're both ultimately from "carcer," Latin for "prison."
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.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
Good news in your house district.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/08/25/surprise-brewing-in-ny-22/
for more on the strange new DOJ site
http://www.politicalwrinkles.com/news-current-events/14158-justice-loses-its-stars-stripes.html
Drat, you beat me! I just cannot be funny faster than you all.
practice mi-laddo. youse gets better every time... well... almost every time... sorta...
George Phillips is awesome....I have met him a number of times and find him conservative to the core. AS for the DOJ website........the countdown is on....2012 IS coming.
Well there you are. :)
uh... yeah... right... (just where the @!#$@# AM i?)
and whatever did xsmommy do with the wet bar???
Thanks, now I know why I couldn’t remember it.
From your keyboard to God’s monitor!
Approaching Binghamton get ready to wave; )
was THAT the burst of sunshine we had for a few minutes there?
In Syracuse now having dinner with xshub’s BIL and niece. Move in is tomorrow am. Dogs are deposited at the vet hosp up here they were excited to explore it.
you enjoying the dreary cooler weather? I am freezing.
practice mi-laddo. youse gets better every time... well... almost every time... sorta...
(Robt notes, somewhat off-handily, that camle very specifically did “not” say “Robt always got better each time” ... In fact, he did not even say that Robt got sorta almost better each and every time Robt answers. )
(Robt wonders if there is a message there.)
I don’t know, but he also called me a boy...
we love ya Robt! keep at it long enough and you WILL get better. LOL ;^)
My carceral visitations were always of very short duration. This is because I controlled the clocks, and if they didn't want time to stand still entirely, they had to let me go in a timely fashion.
I don't know, though, whether it is a bragging point or not to say that I have been in and out of half a dozen prisons.
Hmmmmn. Were you fixin’ the locks? Or fixed by the locks?
Locks, clocks, what’s the difference?
We’re all time-bound in different ways.
code there does is not no exist code.;-)
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