Posted on 11/17/2010 3:50:40 AM PST 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".
banausic \buh-NAW-sik\
relating to or concerned with earning a living -- used pejoratively; also - utilitarian, practical
Example sentence:
The heiress dismissively declared that she would never have to worry about such banausic concerns as holding down a job.
Extra example: "At the far end was a wooden board on which were hung saws, chisels, knives and other banausic instruments of the trade." -- From Sebastian Faulk's 2005 novel Human Traces
Did you know?
The ancient Greeks held intellectual pursuits in the highest esteem, and they considered ideal a leisurely life of contemplation. A large population of slaves enabled many Greek citizens to adopt that preferred lifestyle. Those who had others to do the heavy lifting for them tended to regard professional labor with contempt. Their prejudice against the need to toil to earn a living is reflected in the Greek adjective "banausikos" (the root of “banausic”), which not only means “of an artisan” (from the word for artisan, "banausos") but “nonintellectual” as well.
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)
Here is my example with today's WFTD.
Can anyone really expect Charlie Rangle to concern himself with banausic details such as ethics rules.
Rangel Is Found to Have Violated House Ethics Rules [update: guilty of all but one charge]
No pushing at the door please!
Happy Humpday Everybody!
Only 
days left until BO's replacement is sworn in.
Get to class you slackers! I've opened a new classroom, but Dave forgot to get the gradebook from xsmommy. So if you're looking for a grade you'll have to ping her. Secret Garden and Tioga are usually pretty generous with the plusses if you compliment their shapely legs, so you might try submitting your homework to them instead. My secret for getting extra plusses on my A+ from xs will remain a secret between me and her, so you're on your own if you want her to review your work.
Welcome to class students.
Only 
days until Christmas.
OK, now I have to get dressed, grab some breakfast, and get on in to the office away from my office.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
i just knew you were naked.
And were you, perhaps, expecting sympathy over such banausic trifles?
Do you like gladiator movies?
A+++ so do i understand correctly that he has a EUROPEAN frolic on tap for this week?
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Unless we win the lottery, we will continue our banausic ways.
Tonight when I get home I'm cooking up some chicken with banausic vinegar.
This individual's banausic ways came to a halt when he was overtaken by CRIPPLING bout of PDS!
If not, it works too.
that was it, musta been a dupe.
they are as transparent as GUAZE. i can’t recall who it was that called Tina Fey’s hairdo a crime against humanity last night, but i agree with them!
or is it GAUZE? i think it’s gauze.
She was kind of funny in Date Night but not funny at all in that speech.
she has to know that the only people still laughing are the hard core leftwingers, the rest are sick to death of her sad little tired schtick. i guess she’s desperately clinging to it, since it’s the most success she’s ever had.
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