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!
I remember the first time I had my hierarch reordered.
People in SA should have learned from Henry Cisneros not to vote in a Che Guevarra for mayor, but apparently they haven’t-a good reason not to live there. The current mayor is an American by birth only, and is certainly no Texan, in my opinion-he and his bitter mommie would be more at home in LA-not SA...
Most of us respect the Alamo as the symbol of Texas liberty, regardless of ethnicity-most of us whose families came to Texas via Mexico from Spain before 1820 or so also have hispanic ancestors who fought in the battle for Texas independence-on the Texans’ side...
She and her husband were rare breeds, all right. Everyone I know worked the summers and even during the school year when they were in college. Not those two.
His future begins the very first day of College so he might as well get used to the realities of work and little time off now.....
That way he'll appreciate what money he earns now, how much the government confiscates, and vote accordingly.... to the right!
At first glance, I thought she looked pretty ragged since the last oh-please-look-at-me video series of ozero worship. But she used a model last time.
The hysteria ends tonight, thank God-that convention borders on a 60’s anti-war protest-flag burning and howls of “police brutality” are the only things that are missing...
Because they are in the South
The cacology of the politicians
Is designed to make the masses
Forget their glaring omissions
Such obvious cheap theatrics
At the ‘rat party convention
Should show every common man
Their level of condescencion
They hope no one remembers that
They were busy spreading hate-
And overlooked God and Israel
Till it was a bit too late...
Did anyone see what Sandra whats-her-name had to say? I watched H2, and only tuned in to hear part of Clinton’s speech just for the hell of it.
I have to say that today’s word sounds like something scatalogical...
It does indeed. I posted it when I woke up before 5 so of course I got the date wrong. A+ for you.
Thank you!
Let us marvel at the cacology of the cacophony generated by the DNC. (Apologies, overslept and only on second cup of java.)
Thanks-nothing but the truth there..
She spoke the usual drivel about how Romney will take everything away from women. RME The tart got a hefty amount of applause for just walking out. Sickening.
I hope Planned Parenthood hands out free condoms to any woman stupid enough to believe anything that comes out of that circus-a mom with no sense of personal responsibility is not something any kid needs...
And we’re on page 2 and no one has mentioned corpseman. A for you.
considering Rove wanted to murder him in cold blood, the obit wasn’t all THAT premature... ; )
xsteen’s BF was at the USOpen up in NY this past weekend and apparently the WH was given credit for bringing the troops there, though it was ANOTHER organization that did that actually. He said that they [WH] had listed it as marine CORP, not CORPS. Obams TOTALLY confused now that he screwed up with the CORPSMAN the last time!
But as we heard last night, CORP doesn’t even mean people so what kind of cacology are they espousing?
It sounds like they are trolling for more money for McCaskill.
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