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Re: Getting Wordy « Reply #510 on Oct 28, 2009, 7:34am »
Your sister's job Halloween dress-up theme sounds fun, Siren. One of the only things I miss about my office jobs is dressing up for Halloween at work. We don't do it at the nursery, though we've talked about it for years. Too much slogging around in the dirt, schelpping plants and such, (slogging and schelping? Are those actual words?), and the costumes would get ruined before half the day had passed. Unless we did the slattern thing - then the untidiness wouldn't matter.
And oh, Siren! Get your sweet behind up to the Welcome Wagon here, and take a look who's popped in a couple of days ago.
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Re: Getting Wordy « Reply #511 on Oct 29, 2009, 2:14pm »
schlep or schlepp also shlep (shlp) Slang
v. schlepped also shlepped, schlep·ping or schlepp·ing also shlep·ping, schleps or schlepps also shleps
To carry clumsily or with difficulty; lug: schlepped a shopping bag around town. To move slowly or laboriously: schlepped around with the twins in a stroller. 1. An arduous journey. 2. A clumsy or stupid person.
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Re: Getting Wordy « Reply #512 on Oct 30, 2009, 10:57pm »
I ran into a word I hadn't heard before a few days ago. In the process of describing someone with whom the writer was rather displeased, several disparaging words were used including this one.
puerile
Function: adjective Etymology: French or Latin; French puéril, from Latin puerilis, from puer boy, child; akin to Sanskrit putra son, child and perhaps to Greek pais boy, child Date: 1652 1 : juvenile 2 : childish, silly <puerile remarks>
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Re: Getting Wordy « Reply #515 on Nov 8, 2009, 9:51pm »
Virago Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural vi·ra·goes or vi·ra·gos Etymology: Middle English, from Latin viragin-, virago, from vir man Date: 14th century 1 : a loud overbearing woman 2 : a woman of great stature, strength, and courage
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Re: Getting Wordy « Reply #517 on Nov 9, 2009, 2:20pm »
Nah, you are not peurile Phalon, maybe not averse to a bit of Pontification though!
Only kidding!
pon·tif·i·cate (pn-tf-kt, -kt) n. The office or term of office of a pontiff. intr.v. (-kt) pon·tif·i·cat·ed, pon·tif·i·cat·ing, pon·tif·i·cates 1. To express opinions or judgments in a dogmatic way. 2. To administer the office of a pontiff.
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Re: Getting Wordy « Reply #518 on Nov 10, 2009, 4:34pm »
"collision" is a common word. But have you ever heard of an allision? I came across that unusual word in this article about the ill-fated ship, the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Perhaps you've heard the song about the Edmund Fitzgerald? Here in Oklahoma, we're living at least a part of it. As the song says, the skies of November have certainly turned gloomy.
I think sometimes words such as "confabulate" and "virago" can be confusing.
"The virago sat in front of the group, and confabulated her life's experiences to us."
Did the overbearing woman loudly tell tall tales that she's told so many times to anyone who would listen, that she now believed them to be true?
Or did a woman of great strength inspire those listening to her while she casually chatted about her experiences of courage?
Could go either way. Unlike "puerile".
"Phalon is puerile." No misunderstanding there.
The intent of virago, at least in the source that I found, might be best explained as referring to an Amazon. Think Xena or Gabrielle. And, I would never refer to you as being puerile! Now, here's a lollipop for being such a good girl!
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Re: Getting Wordy « Reply #521 on Nov 11, 2009, 5:29am »
Oooo, Siren, I'm not a Gordon Lightfoot fan, but "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" always, always sends a chill down my spine whenever I hear it, even to this day. I remember when the tragedy happened; I was in fifth grade. Although we lived about an hour and a half from Detroit, class was stopped for a moment of silence when as the song says:
"In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed, in the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral." The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald."
I was down at the beach Monday walking with a friend. That bitter wind that blows off the lake here got a line from the song stuck in my head the entire time we were walking. If I wasn't chilled by the wind, the lyric that kept running through my head made me shiver:
"The Lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy."
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Hey! Mama told me to never take candy from strange men. But since it's you, Stepper.....have you got any chocolate instead?
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Re: Getting Wordy « Reply #522 on Nov 12, 2009, 8:32pm »
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a favorite of mine too. Shoot. You KNOW I'm going to be hearing that song for hours now that it's started.
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.....have you got any chocolate instead?
As a matter of fact...Three Musketeers okay? I've alwasy got those, and Snickers, and a couple of the big Hershey's bars.....or how about some hot chocolate topped off with mini marshmallows to go with that frost you've been having?
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Re: Getting Wordy « Reply #523 on Dec 2, 2009, 7:16am »
I ran into an aquaintence yesterday who I haven't seen since late last spring, or early summer. She said she heard something recently that made her think of me. It was the word "masterpiece".
Merriam Webster's defines "masterpiece" as 1.) a work done with extraordinary skill; especially a supreme intellectual or artistic achievement. 2.) a piece of work presented to a medieval guild as evidence of qualification for the rank of master.
Had she run across an article of mine in a past issue of a magazine and thought it was a supreme intellectual achievement? Pfft. Yeah, right; not in my wildest dreams. Was she down at City Hall, saw the tree I decorated, and thought it was done with extraordinary artistic skill? Highly unlikely. Marathong friend's "Martha Stewart on Crack" comment still haunts me.
It was the Webster's second definition that made her think of me - it's in that definition that the word "masterpiece" has its roots.
During medieval times, apprentices were bound by indenture to learn a trade or art from a master. After a prescribed period of time, the apprentice was to complete a piece of work detailing all that he had learned in order to move from apprenticeship and earn the title of "master". It was his master piece.
Although I would have preferred to have created something thought of as a masterpiece, I thought it was cool that at one time or another this woman and I must have had a conversation about word origins, (though I can't remember when and why), and she thought of me when she heard the origin of masterpiece.
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