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!
Yes, those are delegates to a major party convention.
They are dumber than the people Jay Leno interviews on the “man on the street” bits.
So yesterday every time the story aired locally, they said a REPUBLICAN Judge will decide if the democrat will win his suit to be put back on the ballot despite the efforts of the local dem party. All day...."republican judge"...... well that republican judge ruled that he COULD be on the ballot so today...he's a judge. Period. No mention of his party affiliation.
Oh wait....sorry - the local DA was defeated in the primary - she didn’t step down. Sorry about that
Don’t worry. If he (or she) commits a crime or gets into a scandal, he’ll magically be a “Republican” again.
Good thing we have Barack Obama to multiply this individual success.
If it wasn’t for the road there, the kid wouldn’t have built his business. So really, BO is to be commended for his success, not the kid.
She’s insane.
A for you.
Cacology just sounds like chicken talking since it's supposed to be what's said above I guess it makes sense...that would be the meaning not the chicken talk.
Wow. That’s like cutting off your nose despite your face. Fools.
She mispronounces that word as “shtruggle”. All that money for the high-priced education and that’s what she got out of it.
I’m sure she didn’t pay much, if at all.....she is after all, the right color for assistance and I vaguely recall her admitting that fact somewhere in the past as a beneficiary of affirmative action.
And the perfect news article for the day after Clinton speaks Teen oral sex rates reflect a 'hierarchical reordering'. The Clinton legacy.
that is just appalling.
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