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Word For The Day, Wednesday, October 9, 2013-- autodidact
Posted on 10/09/2013 5:18:11 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, October 9, 2013-- autodidact
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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".
autodidact [aw-toh-dahy-dakt]
hear it pronounced
noun
a person who has learned a subject without the benefit of a teacher or formal education; a self-taught person.
Origin: 1525-35: from Greek autodidaktos self-taught, from autos self + didaskein to teach]
Related forms
autodi'dactic -adjective
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Barack Obama, Constitutional scholar and professor, is an autodidact who understands his signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act, without having been to medical school, and can devise ways to increase employment and prosperity without the benefit of any formal education in economics.
To: xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; Slip18; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:18:50 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
( July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
The auto can’t drive it self but the Auto Did Act like it could.
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:27:28 AM PDT
by
deadrock
(I am someone else.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Unlike Abe Lincoln, who was an autodidact, many Americans today are oughtadidacts.
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:28:27 AM PDT
by
pax_et_bonum
(Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
To: Diogenesis
A+++
Indeed!
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:34:09 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
( July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: deadrock
A++
Good pun!
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:35:23 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
( July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: pax_et_bonum
A++
Yes, the low-information voters could certainly use some information.
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:36:37 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
( July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
I have some of my bills autodidacted from my checking account.
Very convenient.
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:38:09 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: MrB
A+++
For making me chuckle.
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:40:28 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
( July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Hrm... today’s word for the day is a bit, meta, no?
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:42:53 AM PDT
by
dangus
To: MrB
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:48:44 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
swear i am going to have to get a prescription for paxil or something after reading the news. so many things to be upset about.
>this for starters, today.
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:50:01 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:51:26 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
A++
This woman perhaps should look into autodidactism.... You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means!
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:55:01 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
( July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: dangus
Hrm... today’s word for the day is a bit, meta, no?It doesn't meta to me.
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:56:20 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
( July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:59:30 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
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posted on
10/09/2013 6:05:10 AM PDT
by
tioga
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
I watched the Tina Fey movie “admission” on a plane last week. (Slim pickens).
They used this to describe a student that she thought was her given-up-for-adoption son.
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
In Obama we have the gold, silver, and bronze medalist in the jerk-off Olympics: in Economics, autodictic; in Diplomacy, autoerotic; in Governance, autocratic.
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Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
10/09/2013 6:18:23 AM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN - 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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