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Post by David on Dec 3, 2021 17:35:04 GMT
 I am so pleased he is only a shadow of his former self now.. for the mayhem he resided over during his presidency! |
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Post by David on Dec 5, 2021 21:40:09 GMT
In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind;
but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.
-Horace Walpole, novelist and essayist (24 Sep 1717-1797)
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Post by David on Dec 5, 2021 21:40:52 GMT
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Post by David on Dec 5, 2021 22:20:56 GMT
People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.
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Post by David on Dec 5, 2021 23:48:51 GMT
How comfortable and  photogenic is that? |
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Post by David on Dec 5, 2021 23:49:45 GMT
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Post by David on Dec 7, 2021 1:54:52 GMT
A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg
Words can be enjoyable any time of the year, but this week in A.Word.A.Day is a special treat. As in previous years, I gave the artist Leah Palmer Preiss (curiouser at mindspring.com) five words and this week you get to see what she has done with them.
It’s a feast for the eyes and for the mind. Enjoy! daedal PRONUNCIATION: (DEE-duhl)
MEANING: adjective: Ingenious; skillful; intricate; artistic.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin daedalus (skillful), from Greek daidalos. Earliest documented use: 1590. A related word is logodaedaly.
NOTES: In Greek mythology, Daedalus was an architect and craftsman who built the labyrinth for King Minos of Crete. When the king imprisoned him so the knowledge of the labyrinth wouldn’t spread, Daedalus made wings for himself and his son Icarus.
USAGE: “The best of the projects in the magazine were truly daedal: ingenious, cleverly intricate, and diversified.” Eric Kraft; Taking Off; St. Martin’s Press; 2014.
See more usage examples of daedal in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. |
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Post by David on Dec 7, 2021 1:55:37 GMT
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: A timid question will always receive a confident answer. -Charles John Darling, lawyer, judge, and politician (6 Dec 1849-1936) |
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Post by David on Dec 8, 2021 3:20:25 GMT
A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg
involute PRONUNCIATION: (adjective/noun: IN-vuh-loot; verb: in-vuh-LOOT)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Intricate; complex. 2. Curled inward. noun: A curve traced by a point on a string while winding or unwinding it around another curve. verb intr.: 1. To curl up. 2. To return to a former condition or to a normal state.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin involutus, past participle of involvere (to roll up), from in- (into) + volvere (to roll). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wel- (to turn or roll), which also gave us waltz, revolve, valley, walk, vault, volume, wallet, helix, devolve, voluble, welter, and willowy. Earliest documented use: 1661.
USAGE: “A shoddy piece of research obfuscated by crepuscular logic and involute style.” Trevanian; The Eiger Sanction; Outlet; 1972.
“Undivide, and involute, and shrink back to safety.” Chris Adrian; The Children’s Hospital; McSweeney’s; 2007.
See more usage examples of involute in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.
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Post by David on Dec 8, 2021 3:21:27 GMT
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum... even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
-Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor and political activist (b. 7 Dec 1928) |
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Post by David on Dec 9, 2021 4:14:22 GMT
xylophilous
PRONUNCIATION:
(zy-LOF-uh-luhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Growing on or living in wood.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek xylo- (wood) + -philous (liking). Earliest documented use: 1862.
USAGE:
“Almost any type of nook or cranny may be used, but the most common are tubes in the hollowed pith of twigs or vacant insect borings in dead wood (xylophilous wasps).”
Kenneth G. Ross and Robert W. Matthews; The Social Biology of Wasps; Cornell University Press; 1991.
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Post by David on Dec 9, 2021 4:15:22 GMT
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
-James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (8 Dec 1894-1961)
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Post by David on Dec 9, 2021 8:22:20 GMT
Seraphic PRONUNCIATION: (suh-RAF-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Like an angel: serene, beautiful, pure, blissful, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin seraphim, from Greek seraphim, from Hebrew seraphim, from saraph (to burn). Earliest documented use: 1632.
USAGE: “When the spell of immobility resumes, seraphic harmonies give way to a colossal, demonic setting.” Alexander M. Ross; No Exit; The New Yorker; Aug 22, 2016.
See more usage examples of seraphic in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. |
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Post by David on Dec 9, 2021 8:23:03 GMT
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Those who put out the people's eyes, reproach them for their blindness.
-John Milton, poet (9 Dec 1608-1674)
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Post by David on Dec 10, 2021 16:00:29 GMT
lentic PRONUNCIATION: (LEN-tik)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to or living in still water.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin lentus (slow, calm), which also gave us relent, lentamente (slowly, used in music direction), and lentitude (slowness). Earliest documented use: 1935. The form lenitic is also used. The word for “relating to or living in moving water” is lotic.
USAGE: “At her side, Clo snarled, ‘That lentic spawn of a caiman’s balls.’” Laura Lam and Elizabeth May; Seven Devils; DAW; 2020.
See more usage examples of lentic in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. |
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I am so pleased he is only a shadow of his former self now..
