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Word For The Day, Thursday, July 24, 2014 – mot juste
dictionaries ad nauseam
| 24 July 2014
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Posted on 07/24/2014 4:57:43 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".
mot juste \ moh ZHYST \ , noun
French . the exact, appropriate word.
Example sentences:
I felt very bad because here was the man I liked and trusted the most as a critic then, the man who believed in the mot juste —the one and only correct word to use—the man who had taught me to distrust adjectives as I would later learn to distrust certain people in certain given situations...
-- Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast , 1964
I felt that something might be learned of what I wanted from Flaubert and the mot juste so admired by Ford and Pound.
-- A. S. Byatt, "Still Life/nature morte," Passions of the Mind , 1991
Etymology:
Mot juste is a borrowing from the French word of thesame spelling and meaning. It entered English in the late 1800s.
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 Threads: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
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To: secret garden; Fierce Allegiance; Jack Deth; MoochPooch; NeoCaveman; Conspiracy Guy; Laura Earl; ...
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posted on
07/24/2014 5:00:08 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden
Well, that’s exactly the right word!
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posted on
07/24/2014 5:03:03 AM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(Will all of you people who keep "fixing" things please stop? Making them work again is killing me.)
To: secret garden
Here's a response that is simply beyond refutation:
"Eleven apples in a can, make Mott's Applesauce just grand!"
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posted on
07/24/2014 5:15:23 AM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(Will all of you people who keep "fixing" things please stop? Making them work again is killing me.)
To: secret garden
Obama failed to find the mot juste when he sold the ACA to the American people.
To: NicknamedBob
To: SoothingDave
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posted on
07/24/2014 5:46:32 AM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(Will all of you people who keep "fixing" things please stop? Making them work again is killing me.)
To: secret garden
Dear Lord, what is the mot juste
To make Obama go? just
Beam me the word
I’ll nod twice when I’ve heard
“Impeachment” would be so just
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posted on
07/24/2014 6:02:04 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(When using "he" or "him" to refer to Barack Obama, is it still okay to use the lower case "h"?)
To: secret garden
The mot juste to describe Obama would be Liar.
There are others that are mot juste but should not be used in polite company.
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posted on
07/24/2014 6:02:40 AM PDT
by
HammerT
(The Right to keep and bear arms: A Commonsense Civil Right)
To: secret garden
I was trying to think of a synonym for ‘thesaurus’ but could not come up with a mot juste.
To: secret garden
Never have liked a mot juste; much prefer Larry’s or Curly’s justes...
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posted on
07/24/2014 6:31:25 AM PDT
by
SAJ
To: HammerT
To: NicknamedBob
A for you!
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posted on
07/24/2014 7:07:28 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: afraidfortherepublic
And he doesn't care. A for you.
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posted on
07/24/2014 7:08:11 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: SoothingDave
Binary mistake, I'm sure.
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posted on
07/24/2014 7:08:52 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Lovely. A+ for you.
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posted on
07/24/2014 7:09:43 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: HammerT
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posted on
07/24/2014 7:10:16 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: VRWCmember
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posted on
07/24/2014 7:10:51 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: SAJ
I think that makes you a stoogist. A for you.
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posted on
07/24/2014 7:11:20 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden
Mot juste -- when not juste any word will do ....
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posted on
07/24/2014 7:14:06 AM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Exactement)
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