Posted on 10/16/2012 5:08:41 AM PDT by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, October 16, 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".
demotic [dih-mot-ik]
-adj
1.of or pertaining to the ordinary, everyday, current form of a language; vernacular.
2. of or pertaining to the common people; popular.
3. of, pertaining to, or noting the simplified form of hieratic writing used in ancient Egypt between 700 b.c. and a.d. 500.
[1815–25; < Greek dēmotikós popular, plebeian, equivalent to dēmót ( ēs ) a plebeian (derivative of dêmos; see demo-) + -ikos -ic]
10 km is 6.2 miles, so 155 mph.
It’s LawnGuy-Land, emphasis on “Guy” not Lawn.
That’s supposedly our speed. Hey the us could use high speed rail/Willie green LOL!
What? I've been demoted?
We need to demote the demonoaf now in the White House.
Yes, they are demotic, the poll regularly and everyday.
Yes. I think it is in the vowels. They sort of glissande, one into the other. And Wisconsinites are very precise. We enuciate clearly — most of the time. Greta Van Sustern and Paul Ryan are two who do NOT linger over every syllable. Their speech is quite clipped — rapid fire. Come to think of it, Sen. Ron Johnson speaks the same way, and so does Tommy Thompson. Clipped and short.
Party.
It is 73, gray and raining off and on-my favorite Fall weather...
If Obama begins tonight’s debate
With an appeal to the demotic
It may not have the desired result-
It could end up being chaotic
He still just does not understand
His rhetoric is almost a curse
To all but the modern Roman mob-
It fuels class warfare and worse
And making Hillary walk the plank-
To take the heat and the fall
Only proves he screwed up Bengazi
And fumnbled that 2 AM call...
Hillary does win a pyrrhic victory on that one...
I worked with a woman from Long Island once-a fellow military wife. She pronounced it “lawnguyland”, all run together. When she said “talk”, it sounded like “towk”, “do you want” was “dyawant”, etc.
Amused? She’s an idiot. Can’t stand her. I tuned her out, when she kept up I shut off my TV. They used to be amusing...back in the day with E D Hill. I jumped out of bed in the morning to turn it on then. Now? I could care less.
When E.D. Hill was on F&F, MrT5 and I used to watch it in the morning before we left for work, but not much after she left-now, I seldom watch it at all. If I’m have work, I just watch news and weather and go, or head for the trails and forest if I’m not on a job or doing an estimate. What ever happened to E.D. Hill, anyway?
Edye Tarbox, as she was known when a local anchor here in the 80s, was the guest host on Glenn Beck’s TV program just last week.
I saw that about Crazy Joe on Twitter last night. Amazingly stupid or senile. Pick one.
When FOX dropped her she went to CNN, but I refuse to go there. Guess she is with Beck now. I liked her.
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