Posted on 08/15/2013 4:41:31 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".
anatopism (uh-NAT-uh-piz-ehm) noun
The error of placing something out of its proper place; also something placed erroneously.
Example sentences:
"The Bard is often accused of anatopism -- that is, getting his geography wrong. Why else would he, in The Taming of the Shrew, put a sailmaker in Bergamo, a landlocked city in Italy, ask critics?"
--D. Murali; Shakespeare, 'Literary Equivalent of an Electron'; The Hindu (Chennai, India); Dec 2, 2007.
"Homer may have taken some slight and temporary liberty with the facts, but it does not amount to the major anatopism that some commentators have found in it and should not be taken as evidence that Homer did not have firsthand knowledge of the area."
--John Victor Luce; Celebrating Homer's Landscapes; Yale University Press; 1998.
Etymology:
From Greek ana- (against) + topos (place). Anatopism is to place what anachronism is to time. Earliest documented use: 1812.
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
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 agree, the dems I know are salivating at the thought of dumping O for Hill.
I know. You hate hair bands. Me, I’m reliving my teen years.
it’s the free trial now isn’t it? i still like to listen to the FM dj and his group on my drive in, i listen to XM on the way home.
and i have a handful of opponents just like you, that play me in songpop. so i retaliate with R&B.
Does that mean all Lumineers, all the time?
Yes, it’s supposed to be 3 months. Which would end in 2 weeks.
Is that “alternative” like grunge/90s rock?
i kind of see lithium as 90s alt rock and alt nation as the contemporary alt rock.
The nepotism and anatopism in putting Mooschelle in charge of ANYTHING (much less the nutritional well-being of America) is an anachronism, applicable to an era when things were more genteel than Jeantel...
You could come here amd be anatopically incorrect ; )
Eeww hairbands?
You need to embrace the Megadeth catalog!
(man it irks me when she lucks out in my categories)
Last time I checked Dave Mustaine had hair.
Yes, we can plainly see that all four of yours are anatopically correct.
Annabottomly correct as well?
On another topically entirely, Shakespeare's wife was probably annetopically correct too.
Lots of it too. And a conservative streak a mile wide, but....hair in that context is a sound, not a look.
The guys in Manowar had hair too, but I think calling them a hairband, would result in mayhem!
I have many moods. The hair nation channel is not all pretty boys, but it’s not speed and death metal either.
Oh, good word-like that stupid Obama bus tour map that was yesterday’s news...
The Obama minions’ anatopism,
A trait they obviously share
With other various hustlers
Who are blissfully unaware
Of how tired we have become
Of their raving, ranting face
Calling every chance remark
Something to do with “race”
These egotists just can’t admit
It is all about their vanity-
The more they blow that smoke
The more we doubt their sanity...
But we can all agree to their inanity! A+ for you.
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