Word For The Day, Friday, May 20, 2005

May 20, 2005 | Argh

[Argh]

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of four "Words for the Day".

1. vagile (from Latin vagus wandering)

free to move about

2. vagility (as above)

the quality or state of being vagile; broadly: the capacity of an organism to compete successfully in the struggle for existence

3. panhygrous (well, it IS Friday)

moist in all parts

(I found this at the online International House of Logorrhea. I can't find it in my dictionaries at home, but it does appear in a number of places if you google it.)

4. dysphemism

(from Latin and Grek dys meaning abnormal, bad, etc., and from Greek pheme speech)

substitution of a disagreeable, offensive or disparaging word or expression for an agreeable or inoffensive one (as of axle grease for butter, old man for father, or heap for car); also: a word or expression so substituted - contrasted with euphemism

Example sentence:
I'm not sure this last word will have much utility for the class. If I use "scummy, lying, self-aggrandizing molester" for "Bill Clinton", am I using a dysphemism? No, I'm being accurate. And the same would apply to the rest of our usual suspects. A challenge for the students today.

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using one or more of the Words for the Day in one or more sentences.
The sentences 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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Good Morning, Class. Welcome to School!

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

No pushing at the door please!

[Argh]

HAH!! OK, look at the heading. I need to be fired.

[Argh]

Ping to the ugliest classroom ever!

OK, here are a couple more interesting words at reply # 79 of pissant's S & M thread.

[Argh]

If you get a chance, and if it's possible, and if it's not too much trouble, would you please clean up the mess I made of the title of this thread? Thank you very kindly. I'm going back to bed. With any luck I won't wake up.

[JustAmy]

LOL

< B >Thanks for the laugh, Argh! < /B >

:)

[Argh]

HAH!! You're welcome!

[camle]

what in the wide world of sports are you doing up at this un godly hour???

[NicknamedBob]

Good Morning!

A vagile use of facile words,
Will bring vagility to our facility,
While the dysphemism for telling a lie,
Involves developing euphonybilhillity.

Panhydrous are my burning eyes,
As is my bulging bladder,
This urine isn’t from the skies,
And saying it is makes me madder.



Now, I’m going to get some coffee, and read that over again. Maybe it will make some sense this time.

[Argh]

Since Easter I've had a pinched nerve in my neck making my right arm very painful, and it's been getting so bad lately I can't get comfortable to sleep. Our wonderful socialized medical system is taking its sweet time about fixing it. So anyway, I'm not sleeping a lot these days until I get dead tired. It makes for wonderful days at work.

[Argh]

Very nice, Bob. By the way, I thought it should be "panhydrous" too, but googling assures me it's "panhygrous". Note to all: there probably won't be any marking today, so have a great time!

[camle]

i yam sorry to hear about that. when the canadians hid our people from Iran during the hostage crises, i thought youse guys had class. Sine that stupid health care system came into focus, I have been doubting this.

but you DO have cuban cigars. expensive, but cheaper than here;-)

on the whole, I do kinda dig canada, and plan to spend more time there.

[Argh]

Thanks, camle. There are some good things up here, and some beautiful parts of the country, especially here in B.C. And the women in Montreal. :^) But if you've noticed our recent federal political shenanigans, you might, like many of us, give up all hope for this place.

I'm going to have another crack at sleeping, see you.

[patton]

too early. coffee. do you have coffee in canada, or has socialism led to shortages?

[NicknamedBob]

Oops! I'm familiar with the word hygroscopic, so I should have noted that spelling difference.

I rather like the word dysphemism. I think it might be useful, especially in describing Democrat treatment of judicial nominees.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Though the dems' grip on power is fragile
They're clever and cunning and vagile
When I hear Harry Reid
(How he makes my ears bleed!)
I become quite nostalgic for Daschle

[NicknamedBob]

It would appear our vigilantes are hard pressed to keep up with the vagilantes, especially since the Border Patrol has been caught en flagrante derelicto.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Dysphemism is tough to explain
It's a concept that addles the brain
Use a phrase of disfavor
About something you savor
Here's "the old ball and chain" (it's my wife)

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

en flagrante derelicto.

Great expression! At first I thought you had developed a Japanese accent. Then I mused that you might be referring to having sex with a homeless person. Applying the phrase to the Border Patrol is nothing short of brilliant!

[NicknamedBob]

Thanks! I liked what you said too. (Of course, I know you were only kidding about Daschle!)

The world has gotten awfully strange,
And it’s really begun to get old.
I’m willing to struggle to cope with the change,
Until dysfeminism takes hold.

[TheGrimReaper]

Holy crap! It IS ugly in here!!