Words, words, words

Mikesus · Post by **Mikesus** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:21 pm

I was being facetious Liam.

Is is infelicitous that the English language is rather frequently a second linguistic communication for the abject masses.

BuffaloAl · Post by **BuffaloAl** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 6:52 pm

So I check back in 3 hours later and find that salubrious has already been thought of, and limericked well.

LDuyer · Post by **LDuyer** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 6:56 pm

BuffaloAl wrote:So I check back in 3 hours later and find that salubrious has already been thought of, and limericked well.

Yep, Liam did a good job. A little more practice and he could be dangerous! Ha!

Linda,
who needs another fun word to impress her co-workers this week (and they're all editors, map editors, but editors nonetheless).

Mikesus · Post by **Mikesus** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:02 pm

LDuyer wrote:
BuffaloAl wrote:So I check back in 3 hours later and find that salubrious has already been thought of, and limericked well.
Yep, Liam did a good job. A little more practice and he could be dangerous! Ha!

Linda,
who needs another fun word to impress her co-workers this week (and they're all editors, map editors, but editors nonetheless).

Hey now, I did it first...

BuffaloAl · Post by **BuffaloAl** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:16 pm

What I remember from " It's a Wonderful Life"

Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight
come out tonight, come out tonight,
Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight
and dance by the light of the moon.

Or from John Fogarty:
If I had my way
I'd shuffle off to Buffalo
sit by the lake
and watch the girls go by

I travel quite a bit and have been to Linda's Maryland. Stayed in White Marsh and went to Ikea and the Baltimore waterfront.

Also been to Liam's NH. Stayed in White River Junction ( yes I know it's in VT) and bought a T shirt of the Old Man of the Mountain about 2 weeks before he fell.

Mike in DC, was there for a week last summer. Hot. Humid.

So, has everyone been to Niagara Falls?

Mikesus · Post by **Mikesus** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:18 pm

Sigh, now I live in DC...

LDuyer · Post by **LDuyer** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:26 pm

BuffaloAl,

Virginians (Mikesus) don't take kindly to being considered in DC, or in Maryland, or any other place. Virginians just can't handle it. That Potomac River which divides is also a psychological divide. The Virginians hate Marylanders and DCers. Marylanders, on the other hand, know we're special so don't need to bicker. Ha!

No I've never been to Niagra Falls....... but I kinda like the music!

I have a email penpal in London, Ontario. That's only an inch and a half from you on the map!!

So you've been to Baltimore. The city made Time magazine this month, with its list of top ten Mayors. Mayor O'Malley of Baltimore is well, .... uh, how do I put it, ..... a hunk.

Linda

P.S., and yes, I was thinking of that song from "It's a Wonderful Life"

Mikesus · Post by **Mikesus** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:33 pm

LDuyer wrote:BuffaloAl,

Virginians (Mikesus) don't take kindly to being considered in DC, or in Maryland, or any other place. Virginians just can't handle it. That Potomac River which divides is also a psychological divide. The Virginians hate Marylanders and DCers. Marylanders, on the other hand, know we're special so don't need to bicker. Ha!

No I've never been to Niagra Falls....... but I kinda like the music!

I have a email penpal in London, Ontario. That's only an inch and a half from you on the map!!

So you've been to Baltimore. The city made Time magazine this month, with its list of top ten Mayors. Mayor O'Malley of Baltimore is well, .... uh, how do I put it, ..... a hunk.

Linda

P.S., and yes, I was thinking of that song from "It's a Wonderful Life"

Actually I am termed a "Come Here" As I was not born and raised in VA. Not to mention I have all my teeth, don't chew tabacco, and my family tree forks thank you. (ok most folks from Northern VA don't either, but I am a good ways down I95 )

I just have a problem being connected with a group of folks that could elect a crack head as their mayor (And probably will again)

I believe in the American system, but I think I understand why they have taxation without representation (a slogan now on their license plates). In most other parts of the country, the insane have no rights...

Anyone offended by this can feel free to move to Maryland, Virginia or Delaware.

LDuyer · Post by **LDuyer** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:46 pm

Well, Mikesus, looks like you won't be moving to DC and running for office there any time soon, huh?

Living in the DC area is not a normal existence.
Here, politics and national news are always at the top of the page of the newspapers. It's all they write about, pretty much.

Whereas, the rest of the country, national news makes the bottom of the front page, or even on another page. It doesn't get the same press as it does here, so it's a weird perspective of life in the DC area. So, sometimes you just need to leave the area for sanity sake.

Maybe I'll make a trip to Niagara Falls, how does that sound?

L.

tomjax · Post by **tomjax** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 8:33 pm

Gotta be careful with these too:

fahrting and masticating

and my favorite word to check to see if i have had too much spirits-
when I can't pronounce it, it is time to slow down

indubitably

LDuyer · Post by **LDuyer** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 9:02 pm

masticate
SYLLABICATION: mas·ti·cate
PRONUNCIATION: mst-kt
VERB: Inflected forms: mas·ti·cat·ed, mas·ti·cat·ing, mas·ti·cates

TRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To chew (food). 2. To grind and knead (rubber, for example) into a pulp.
INTRANSITIVE VERB: To chew food.
ETYMOLOGY: Late Latin masticre, mastict-, to masticate, from Greek mastikhn, to grind the teeth.

seanconnery · Post by **seanconnery** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 9:18 pm

..and after masticating a little expectorating...

LDuyer · Post by **LDuyer** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:26 am

One for today:

temporize
[source: A Word.A.Day website]

temporize also temporise (TEM-puh-ryz) verb tr.

To delay so as to gain time or to avoid making a decision.

[From French temporiser (to bide one's time), from Medieval Latin temporizare (to pass the time), from Latin tempor-, from tempus (time).]

"Over the past several months, as the international community has continued to temporize, conditions in Sudan have worsened." Editorial: Darfur, Continued; The Providence Journal (Rhode Island); Apr 19, 2005.

Liam1965 · Post by **Liam1965** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:15 am

I've always liked extemporize, actually. Which isn't quite the same, it means to ad lib or "wing it".

For example, just about everything MacGuyver came up with on the show by the same name was extemporanious.

Liam, feeling ill, he thinks he has an extemperature.

Liam1965 · Post by **Liam1965** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:16 am

Liam1965 wrote:Liam, feeling ill, he thinks he has an extemperature.

(I have to mention, it's always been a pet peeve of mine when someone says they have "a temperature", because we all have a temperature, it's just that when that temperature is around 98.6, we don't have a FEVER. However, the joke (feeble as it was) would have been completely obliterated if I'd said "he thinks he has an exfever")

Liam, so anal, he can't even resist correcting HIMSELF.

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