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Supposedly reading Shakespeare improves your voabulary because he uses something like 400,000 of the 800,000 words in the English language. There’s one word (I forget) associated with the Internet he uses too…back then it referred to tennis.
The New Yorker has a rich vocabulary I’ve always noticed.
I LOVE this idea Dave: A word of the day to expand and strengthen our vocabularies! I’m in.
While we’re at it, can we include a Spanish phrase of the day (SPOTD)? My psyche could use a pick-me-up in the Spanish learning department. I’m getting to that sad plateau stage again.
WOW…that’s a load off my mind. (Rewrite possibilities there). I thought I was headed towards Alzheimner’s because I forget a lot of things right after I read them as well.
The Scrabble Word of the Day that DH and Cobble have periodically posted is close. I receive the Merriam-Webster WOTD each day. Sometimes they have some interesting ones. I try to incorporate them into my everyday conversations, but I usually end up forgetting them as soon as I finish reading about it, particularly the more obscure ones.
That’s funny Biff because more than once I’ve thought about introducing a Word Of The Day (WOTD). I think many of our posters would benefit from an expansion in their vocabulary.
That said, The Mirriam-Webster WOTD is always rather lame. Everyone knows what a pompadour is.
The WOTD from our elevator screens today was reliquary. A reliquary is a container for relics. These may be the physical remains of saints, such as bones, pieces of clothing, or some object associated with saints or other religious figures. However, the elevator screen used it in some bizarre sentence about some girls’s jeans being a “reliquary” for some such nonsense.
More appropriate might be “Dave’s sheets are a reliquary for the seed of some real devils.”
Today’s FGVOTD was provided by vinca, a self-proclaimed frequent lurker and infrequent poster.
It’s dedicated to Rob, who may or may not show up today. I suppose it reminded vinca of Rob in some way – except the sign on the side of the bus would need a slight modification.
This is like a typical discussion around the microwave here at The Death Star; except for the fact our microwave broke and they’re too cheap to spend $50 to replace it.
Supposedly reading Shakespeare improves your voabulary because he uses something like 400,000 of the 800,000 words in the English language. There’s one word (I forget) associated with the Internet he uses too…back then it referred to tennis.
The New Yorker has a rich vocabulary I’ve always noticed.
I LOVE this idea Dave: A word of the day to expand and strengthen our vocabularies! I’m in.
While we’re at it, can we include a Spanish phrase of the day (SPOTD)? My psyche could use a pick-me-up in the Spanish learning department. I’m getting to that sad plateau stage again.
Biff and DIBS sitting in a tree PLUSAing
Seriously, why don’t you guys just IM or get on the phone. You really are just talking to yourselves.
WOW…that’s a load off my mind. (Rewrite possibilities there). I thought I was headed towards Alzheimner’s because I forget a lot of things right after I read them as well.
The Scrabble Word of the Day that DH and Cobble have periodically posted is close. I receive the Merriam-Webster WOTD each day. Sometimes they have some interesting ones. I try to incorporate them into my everyday conversations, but I usually end up forgetting them as soon as I finish reading about it, particularly the more obscure ones.
That’s funny Biff because more than once I’ve thought about introducing a Word Of The Day (WOTD). I think many of our posters would benefit from an expansion in their vocabulary.
That said, The Mirriam-Webster WOTD is always rather lame. Everyone knows what a pompadour is.
The WOTD from our elevator screens today was reliquary. A reliquary is a container for relics. These may be the physical remains of saints, such as bones, pieces of clothing, or some object associated with saints or other religious figures. However, the elevator screen used it in some bizarre sentence about some girls’s jeans being a “reliquary” for some such nonsense.
More appropriate might be “Dave’s sheets are a reliquary for the seed of some real devils.”
DIBS, no problem. But after seeing the Merriam-Webster Word of the Day today, I can’t get the image of your picture from the mid-70s out of my head.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl
Kato was HOT…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kato_(The_Green_Hornet).jpg
Thanks for putting that image in my head so early in the morning, Biff.
Today’s FGVOTD was provided by vinca, a self-proclaimed frequent lurker and infrequent poster.
It’s dedicated to Rob, who may or may not show up today. I suppose it reminded vinca of Rob in some way – except the sign on the side of the bus would need a slight modification.
This is like a typical discussion around the microwave here at The Death Star; except for the fact our microwave broke and they’re too cheap to spend $50 to replace it.
Thanks vinca.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bur6eLJUKKk