Posted on 09/06/2012 3:18:43 AM PDT by secret garden
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".
cacology \ka-KOL-uh-jee\, noun
Defectively produced speech; socially unacceptable diction.
Example sentences:
As to prose, I don't know Addison's from Johnson's; but I will try to mend my cacology.
-- Lord Byron, The Works and Letters of Lord Byron
Such cacology drives some people to distraction.
-- Linton Weeks, "R Grammar Gaffes Ruining the Language? Maybe Not", NPR
Etymology:
Cacology comes from the root caco- meaning "bad." This prefix occurs in loanwords from Greek. Similarly the suffix -logy is a combining form used in the names of sciences and bodies of knowledge.
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 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
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
She kept using the phrase “nuns on the bus” and I kept yelling back what? are you the one chanting “wheels on the bus” as Obama runs it over his latest scapegoats?
It’s kind of like the more lies she tells the more evil she gets out of her and the better she looks? I have a weird sense of things this morning...comes from watching two nights of the DNC.
the mama was one of the foundres of La Raza......explains a lot. we need to take our country back. NOW.
That is really good - and the liberals in love with this President would never believe a word of it
In the After shot she looks like Alfreda E. Newman.
Hmmmmn.
While studying the failed speeches and lying texts at the soon-to-be-finished democrat socialists’ convention might be painful, it really just smells like the cacology of BS and sewage.
The Alamo is one of the most important historical locations in the entire State of Texas and for this man to be Mayor of that city and have those feelings about the Alamo is just disgusting. Apparently that is my word for the day, disgusting.
she does have a set of ears on her!
I thought it was his mother that said it.
I think it is more likely that the more vocal she becomes, much like Hillary years ago, the more others step in to help her look more presentable. They probably had to find the right way to approach an ego like that and eventually did.
I thought she always looked like Chelsea Clinton.....but then Chelsea had face work done.
Yes it was his mother but I don’t doubt he feels the same way
Well, it’s a dam shame they abandoned Hillary once she became Sec. of State.
Isn’t Alamo a crappy car rental company?
Oh that’s a wonderful piece of work by Peter Schiff.
Speaking of hair, was that really the hairstyle they chose for Elizabeth Warren. It took me a few minutes to process, then I remembered there was football on.
I saw Fluke. Apparently Paul Ryan proposed some legislation to make sure some percentage of pregnant women who show up to emergency rooms die. So, I learned that.
One of the NR wags questioned whether she has business cards with “birth control martyr” printed on them.
If I didn’t know it was real, I would suspect The Onion. It was awesome. Fools. And they are the leaders of the Dem party? No wonder.
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