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Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Sun May 10, 2015 6:23 am
by Algot Runeman
decad
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛkad/
noun
technical
A group or set of ten.
Origin
Early 17th century: via late Latin from Greek dekas, decad-, from deka 'ten'.
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The teams of sport don't seem to appreciate the
decad.
Baseball: nine, basketball: five, football and cricket: eleven, egad!
But then there's lacrosse. Been played with a thousand on a side
The modern game has ten, not too crowded on the bus ride.
[The word pentad has been a past WotD. This word is twice as good!]
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Mon May 11, 2015 2:03 am
by voralfred
Algot Runeman wrote:decad
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛkad/
noun
technical
A group or set of ten.
Origin
Early 17th century: via late Latin from Greek dekas, decad-, from deka 'ten'.
(...)
The teams of sport don't seem to appreciate the
decad.
Baseball: nine, basketball: five, football and cricket: eleven, egad!
But then there's lacrosse. Been played with a thousand on a side
The modern game has ten, not too crowded on the bus ride.
[The word pentad has been a past WotD. This word is twice as good!]
In French we also have
décade, twice as good as
pentade, but we also have
pintade, which is many, many times better than either. Alas the joke is lost in english...
guineafowlade does not exist...
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Mon May 11, 2015 5:43 am
by Algot Runeman
sanative
Pronunciation: /ˈsanətɪv/
adjective
archaic
Conducive to physical or spiritual health and well-being; healing.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French sanatif or late Latin sanativus, from Latin sanare 'to cure'.
NASA
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Clean water is not only
sanative, it is also salubrious, not to leave out healthful. Though the world's surface is covered around 70 percent with oceans of water, that's not good enough, Humans need fresh water, not salt water. Springs, trickles, streams, freshets and clean rivers are what we need.
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 7:15 am
by Algot Runeman
garçonnière
Pronunciation: /ˌɡɑːsɒnˈjɛː/
noun
A bachelor’s flat or set of rooms.
Origin
French, from garçon 'boy'.
Rennett Stowe
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Harvey hated his
garçonnière. It was too flat, no pizzazz. He tried a pool table, a huge TV, a bar. No matter. It was just a set of rooms in the end.
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 9:04 am
by E Pericoloso Sporgersi
Algot Runeman wrote:garçonnière
Be extra cautious when renting a room in Brussels, Belgium for an extended period of time.
In newspaper's classifieds,
garçonnières are called
pied-à-terres.
They're rented by the hour and usually located outside the red light district.
It makes me think of
The Apartment and
The Loft.
When I was a student (45 years ago and much less knowledgeable about colloquial French) I needed a room in Brussels for some 5 months.
After telephone calls to 8 different pied-à-terre classifieds, where nobody wanted to rent it out for just a few months, a female voice took pity on me and explained that a rented pied-à-terre is "pour faire l'amour".
I returned from the booth to the café's bar where the barkeeper noticed the reddish colour on my cheek. He pushed the intercom button and said: "Gérard, there's lipstick on the phone again! Go wipe it clean, will you?"
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 10:06 am
by Algot Runeman
sequacious
Pronunciation: /sɪˈkweɪʃəs/
adjective
formal
(Of a person) lacking independence or originality of thought.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Latin sequax, sequac- 'following' (from sequi 'follow') + -ious.
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Bob said I should write about the word "
sequacious" so here it is. Bob left. What do you think I should do next?
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 11:33 am
by E Pericoloso Sporgersi
Algot Runeman wrote:sequacious
... What do you think I should do next?
Make sure it's a
sequacious tree, i.e. a giant redwood, and then measure how tall it is.
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Thu May 14, 2015 8:19 am
by Algot Runeman
animadversion
Pronunciation: /ˌanɪmədˈvəːʃ(ə)n/
noun
[mass noun] formal
1 Criticism or censure: her animadversion against science
1.1 [count noun] A comment or remark, especially a critical one: animadversions that the poet receives quite humbly
Origin
Mid 16th century: from French, or from Latin animadversio(n-), from the verb animadvertere (see animadvert).
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I formally announce, herewith, my
animadversion for the current version of this sentence.
However, I like this one.
Are we clear?
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Thu May 14, 2015 10:18 am
by voralfred
Algot Runeman wrote:animadversion
Pronunciation: /ˌanɪmədˈvəːʃ(ə)n/
noun
[mass noun] formal
1 Criticism or censure: her animadversion against science
1.1 [count noun] A comment or remark, especially a critical one: animadversions that the poet receives quite humbly
Origin
Mid 16th century: from French, or from Latin animadversio(n-), from the verb animadvertere (see animadvert).
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I formally announce, herewith, my
animadversion for the current version of this sentence.
However, I like this one.
Are we clear?
In a different thread, EPS expressed
animadversion for my estimation of the amount of his reward.
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Thu May 14, 2015 12:13 pm
by E Pericoloso Sporgersi
voralfred wrote:Algot Runeman wrote:animadversion
...
In a different thread, EPS expressed
animadversion for my estimation of the amount of his reward.
Isn't it
animadversionary that on a national holiday (Ascension Day) the French suddenly have
too much time on their hands?
(See Voralfred's
different thread)
But wait:
Weird consequences of Ascension Thursday's floating date (for both France and Belgium):
- In 2008 Labour Day (May 1st) and Ascension Day coincided.
- The year 2035 will have an extremely rare week with 2 holidays and 3
bridge days: Labour Day on Tuesday May 1st and Ascension Day on Thursday May 3rd, resulting in a
nine-day weekend! Voralfred, you've been warned!
This website (in Dutch) has an algorithm to calculate future national holidays and school vacations in Belgium, for a holiday calendar historically established but nowadays discriminating because it ignores religious holidays in all religions other than Roman Catholicism.
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Thu May 14, 2015 1:33 pm
by voralfred
E Pericoloso Sporgersi wrote:
- The year 2035 will have an extremely rare week with 2 holidays and 3
bridge days: Labour Day on Tuesday May 1st and Ascension Day on Thursday May 3rd, resulting in a
nine-day weekend! Voralfred, you've been warned!
Well, well, well.. Around 2035, I have a less than 50/50 but still not negligible chance to be still alive, considering the life expectancy for men in France. However, even if they drastically change the retirement age, I'll be comfortably retired long before then, so the I'll have no
animadversion to the smaller numbers of bridge days in the few years before 2035.
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 7:13 am
by Algot Runeman
staccato
Pronunciation: /stəˈkɑːtəʊ/
chiefly Music
adverb & adjective
With each sound or note sharply detached or separated from the others: [as adjective]: a staccato rhythm Compare with legato, marcato.
noun (plural staccatos)
1 A piece or passage marked to be performed staccato.
1.1 A series of short, sharp sounds or words: her heels made a rapid staccato on the polished boards
Origin
Italian, literally 'detached'.
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Don't. Even. Start.
I am not a fan of this speech pattern.
Its staccato style is sadly entering the written word, esp. in short forms like phone text messages.
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Sat May 16, 2015 6:50 am
by Algot Runeman
causerie
Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊzəri/
/kozʀi/
noun (plural causeries pronounced same)
An informal article or talk, typically on a literary subject.
Origin
French, from causer 'to talk'.
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The majority of content on IBDoF is
causerie, I think. It is my opinion "just because" with no academic standing to back it up. Mostly, I have academic sitting. Those chairs in the classrooms were hard and not very comfortable. Don't get me started on the lecture hall seating with those wonky little platforms that came up and folded over to be a place for your notebook. They were certainly
not made for a 6'3" 250 pounder.
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 4:22 am
by voralfred
E Pericoloso Sporgersi wrote:
(…)
Weird consequences of Ascension Thursday's floating date (for both France and Belgium):
- In 2008 Labour Day (May 1st) and Ascension Day coincided.
- The year 2035 will have an extremely rare week with 2 holidays and 3
bridge days: Labour Day on Tuesday May 1st and Ascension Day on Thursday May 3rd, resulting in a
nine-day weekend! Voralfred, you've been warned!
This website (in Dutch) has an algorithm to calculate future national holidays and school vacations in Belgium, for a holiday calendar historically established but nowadays discriminating because it ignores religious holidays in all religions other than Roman Catholicism.
Even weirder, if in 2035, May 1st is on a tuesday, then so is May 8th, with a further bridge-day the day before, leading to an 11 days week-end….
The same situation will take place only 11 years later, in 2046. This is rather surprising, since it won't happen again till the 22nd century, and in happened only once in the 20th, in 1951.
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 9:03 am
by Algot Runeman
animosity
Pronunciation: /ˌanɪˈmɒsɪti/
noun (plural animosities)
[mass noun]
Strong hostility: he no longer felt any animosity towards her
Origin
Late Middle English (originally in the sense 'spirit, courage'): from Old French animosite or late Latin animositas, from animosus 'spirited', from Latin animus 'spirit, mind'. The current sense dates from the early 17th century.
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Dick's
animosity exceeded all bounds. No matter who asked a question, he jumped down their throats. He expected everyone to accept his plan without reservation. He lived up to his name, Richard Tater.
[We (royal) sincerely hope that members of the forum will feel the need for animosity for today's word since animus has been used before.]
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 10:24 am
by E Pericoloso Sporgersi
Algot Runeman wrote:animosity
I feel a clear
animosity towards that ominous silhouette.
I think it's because I'm reminded of a certain Adolf H.
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 1:47 pm
by Algot Runeman
E.P.S. - The "Dictator" silhouette was done from a photo of A.H. Good recognition skills!
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 5:06 pm
by voralfred
Algot Runeman wrote:E.P.S. - The "Dictator" silhouette was done from a photo of A.H. Good recognition skills!
Good recognition skills, indeed !
Against this
ominous silhouette, although it was still
anonymous, you already felt
animosity. Did the
verification of its origin increase the
stamina of your
animadversion?
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 7:01 am
by Algot Runeman
touché
Pronunciation: /tuːˈʃeɪ/
exclamation
1 (In fencing) used as an acknowledgement of a hit by one’s opponent.
1.1 Used as an acknowledgement during a discussion of a good or clever point made at one’s expense by another person: ‘You haven’t contributed much, this evening.’ ‘How could I have?’ ‘Touché. I do go on.’
Origin
French, literally 'touched', past participle of toucher.
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Jules cried, "
touché" to signal he'd been hit. Marcel then raised his épée in salute as the two settled back for another effort. The match required three out of five hits for the win.
[A while back, contretemps shared a somewhat similar pedestrian illustration.]
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 7:58 am
by E Pericoloso Sporgersi
Algot Runeman wrote:touché
Oh, yes!
The delightful Mouseketeers with: "
Touché, Monsieur Pussycat!"
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Wed May 20, 2015 6:55 am
by Algot Runeman
euphuist
Pronunciation: /ˈjuːfjʊɪst/
noun
A person who writes or speaks in an artificial, highly elaborate way
Origin
Late 16th century: from Euphues, the name of a character in John Lyly's prose romance of the same name (1578–80), from Greek euphuēs 'well endowed by nature', from eu 'well' + the base of phuē 'growth'.
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I may suppose, without significant evidence, that some have thought (pondered, perhaps) that my posts for WotD are odd, verbose, obscure, and that, in fact, I am an
euphuist. I shall make no effort to disabuse such thoughts. Would it matter if I did? You are, after all, entitled to your opinions, whether accurate or askew. I shall continue to contribute compendia of accumulated foolishness, whether you complain, congratulate or simply stand mute.
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Wed May 20, 2015 11:27 pm
by voralfred
Algot Runeman wrote: euphuist
Pronunciation: /ˈjuːfjʊɪst/
noun
A person who writes or speaks in an artificial, highly elaborate way
(...)
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I may suppose, without significant evidence, that some have thought (pondered, perhaps) that my posts for WotD are odd, verbose, obscure, and that, in fact, I am a euphuist. I shall make no effort to disabuse such thoughts. Would it matter if I did? You are, after all, entitled to your opinions, whether accurate or askew. I shall continue to contribute compendia of accumulated foolishness, whether you complain, congratulate or simply stand mute.
You, an
euphuist ? Phooey...
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 8:35 am
by Algot Runeman
repugnance
Line breaks: re¦pug|nance
Pronunciation: /rɪˈpʌɡnəns/
noun
[mass noun]
Intense disgust: our repugnance at the bleeding carcasses
Origin
Late Middle English (in the sense 'opposition'): from Old French repugnance or Latin repugnantia, from repugnare 'oppose', from re- (expressing opposition) + pugnare 'to fight'.
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Inarticulate. That's the status I have this morning as I look at yesterday's post. With kindness voralfred gently noted that I might not be
an euphuist rather than
a euphuist. My
repugnance at myself should be noted.
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 9:17 am
by E Pericoloso Sporgersi
voralfred wrote:Algot Runeman wrote: euphuist... I am a euphuist. ...
You, an
euphuist ? Phooey...
Algot Runeman wrote:repugnance...
Inarticulate. That's the status I have this morning as I look at yesterday's post. With kindness voralfred gently noted that I might not be an euphuist rather than a euphuist.
Whether with an "n" or without, Algot's statement filled me with ... well, not
repugnance, but certainly with incredulity.
Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
Posted: Fri May 22, 2015 7:10 am
by Algot Runeman
irrotational
Pronunciation: /ˌɪrəʊˈteɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l/
adjective
Physics
(Especially of fluid motion) not rotational; having no rotation.
Antonio Lordelo
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Residents of Oklahoma and its neighboring states pray for
irrotational storms this time of year. Way too often their prayers are not answered. Tornado alley routinely suffers.