Posted on 02/21/2012 4:51:36 AM PST by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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".
pedant [ped-nt]
-n
1. a person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning.
2. a person who overemphasizes rules or minor details.
3. a person who adheres rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense.
4. Obsolete a schoolmaster
[1580–90; < Italian pedante teacher, pedant; apparently akin to pedagogue; see -ant]
What's a pederast?
Shut the #%$% up, Donny.
What did you think of Star Trek?
Only if there are no Federal holidays. ;-)
Isn’t “Plan B” a birth control? We just can’t escape the topic.
I enjoyed it very much-in my late teens, Star Trek was my favorite TV series-growing up in the military, guys like Captain Kirk were the ultimate heroes, and attractive as “real men”, as well.
I also liked the dry humor and ironic twists of the original series, as well as the way the main characters flipped the bird to the powers-that-be whenever they felt it was justified. Patrick Stewart’s Capt. Picard didn’t have enough of that qualitity, but it was re-captured in the movie by that actor, Chris Pine as Kirk, as well as the other main characters, and I laughed my ass off at that. I liked the hint of arrogance, the f’you attitude, and the reckless heroism, like the old series.
The “Road Island” screw up is just another examp[le of someone who never learned proper English-or maybe even geography?-it is almost enough to make me want to run with scissors...
examp[le Oops! And maybe I should not try to type while proof reading an estimate?
I like going to the movies during the weekdays, only $4.50, and weeknights early in the week are only $6.25. With those awesome powered recliners, I am in heaven. It is about the only thing my son and I do together that is relaxing. He can be tough to love.
When my daughter was a kid at home, she and I used to go to the weekday movies in the summertime-I remember those times fondly.
Well, my son is hardly a boy, in fact, I should have grandchildren from him, but NO. I suffer as a grandma wanna-bee.
i am here, got in late today bc xshub is traveling and i have to drop JULES and xsjr off to their respective schools before getting to my ofc. Leave the house at 6:30 am, arrive at my desk at 8:15 am.
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