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Linked rom today's #AWordADay email:
https://wordsmith.org/words/poetaster.html
MEANING:
noun: An inferior poet.ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin poetaster, from Latin poeta (poet), from Greek poietes (poet, maker), from poiein (to make) + -aster (pejorative suffix). Earliest documented use: 1601.Following on, can we call dwarf stars Asterasters? And former planets Planetasters?
Asking for a friend.
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Linked rom today's #AWordADay email:
https://wordsmith.org/words/poetaster.html
MEANING:
noun: An inferior poet.ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin poetaster, from Latin poeta (poet), from Greek poietes (poet, maker), from poiein (to make) + -aster (pejorative suffix). Earliest documented use: 1601.Following on, can we call dwarf stars Asterasters? And former planets Planetasters?
Asking for a friend.
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Linked rom today's #AWordADay email:
https://wordsmith.org/words/poetaster.html
MEANING:
noun: An inferior poet.ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin poetaster, from Latin poeta (poet), from Greek poietes (poet, maker), from poiein (to make) + -aster (pejorative suffix). Earliest documented use: 1601.Following on, can we call dwarf stars Asterasters? And former planets Planetasters?
Asking for a friend.
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Linked rom today's #AWordADay email:
https://wordsmith.org/words/poetaster.html
MEANING:
noun: An inferior poet.ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin poetaster, from Latin poeta (poet), from Greek poietes (poet, maker), from poiein (to make) + -aster (pejorative suffix). Earliest documented use: 1601.Following on, can we call dwarf stars Asterasters? And former planets Planetasters?
Asking for a friend.
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Linked rom today's #AWordADay email:
https://wordsmith.org/words/poetaster.html
MEANING:
noun: An inferior poet.ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin poetaster, from Latin poeta (poet), from Greek poietes (poet, maker), from poiein (to make) + -aster (pejorative suffix). Earliest documented use: 1601.Following on, can we call dwarf stars Asterasters? And former planets Planetasters?
Asking for a friend.
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#AWordADay #Religion #Faith #Science
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice. -Jerry Coyne, biology professor (b. 30 Dec 1949) -
#AWordADay #Religion #Faith #Science
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice. -Jerry Coyne, biology professor (b. 30 Dec 1949) -
#AWordADay #Religion #Faith #Science
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice. -Jerry Coyne, biology professor (b. 30 Dec 1949) -
#AWordADay #Religion #Faith #Science
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice. -Jerry Coyne, biology professor (b. 30 Dec 1949) -
#AWordADay #Religion #Faith #Science
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice. -Jerry Coyne, biology professor (b. 30 Dec 1949) -
Quoted in today's #AWordADay :
'Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.' ~Susan Sontag
(Time again to reread Illness as a Metaphor)
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Quoted in today's #AWordADay :
'Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.' ~Susan Sontag
(Time again to reread Illness as a Metaphor)
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Quoted in today's #AWordADay :
'Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.' ~Susan Sontag
(Time again to reread Illness as a Metaphor)
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Quoted in today's #AWordADay :
'Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.' ~Susan Sontag
(Time again to reread Illness as a Metaphor)
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Quoted in today's #AWordADay :
'Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.' ~Susan Sontag
(Time again to reread Illness as a Metaphor)
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. -Natalie Clifford Barney, poet, playwright, and novelist (31 Oct 1876-1972) -
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. -Natalie Clifford Barney, poet, playwright, and novelist (31 Oct 1876-1972) -
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. -Natalie Clifford Barney, poet, playwright, and novelist (31 Oct 1876-1972) -
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. -Natalie Clifford Barney, poet, playwright, and novelist (31 Oct 1876-1972) -
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. -Natalie Clifford Barney, poet, playwright, and novelist (31 Oct 1876-1972) -
Today's Word is Podsnap:
"Podsnap is a pompous, jingoistic character, proudly immune to nuance. As Dickens describes him, “Mr Podsnap was well-to-do, and stood very high in Mr Podsnap’s opinion. ... Mr Podsnap’s world was not a very large world, morally; no, nor even geographically: seeing that although his business was sustained upon commerce with other countries, he considered other countries, with that important reservation, a mistake.”
As Podsnap himself adds, “No Other Country is so Favoured as This Country. ... This Island was Blest, Sir, to the Direct Exclusion of such Other Countries as -- as there may happen to be.”
Podsnap, the walking embodiment of moral myopia in a world so tight no unpleasant facts gets through."
Indeed! This seems so familiar...
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Today's Word is Podsnap:
"Podsnap is a pompous, jingoistic character, proudly immune to nuance. As Dickens describes him, “Mr Podsnap was well-to-do, and stood very high in Mr Podsnap’s opinion. ... Mr Podsnap’s world was not a very large world, morally; no, nor even geographically: seeing that although his business was sustained upon commerce with other countries, he considered other countries, with that important reservation, a mistake.”
As Podsnap himself adds, “No Other Country is so Favoured as This Country. ... This Island was Blest, Sir, to the Direct Exclusion of such Other Countries as -- as there may happen to be.”
Podsnap, the walking embodiment of moral myopia in a world so tight no unpleasant facts gets through."
Indeed! This seems so familiar...
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Today's Word is Podsnap:
"Podsnap is a pompous, jingoistic character, proudly immune to nuance. As Dickens describes him, “Mr Podsnap was well-to-do, and stood very high in Mr Podsnap’s opinion. ... Mr Podsnap’s world was not a very large world, morally; no, nor even geographically: seeing that although his business was sustained upon commerce with other countries, he considered other countries, with that important reservation, a mistake.”
As Podsnap himself adds, “No Other Country is so Favoured as This Country. ... This Island was Blest, Sir, to the Direct Exclusion of such Other Countries as -- as there may happen to be.”
Podsnap, the walking embodiment of moral myopia in a world so tight no unpleasant facts gets through."
Indeed! This seems so familiar...
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Today's Word is Podsnap:
"Podsnap is a pompous, jingoistic character, proudly immune to nuance. As Dickens describes him, “Mr Podsnap was well-to-do, and stood very high in Mr Podsnap’s opinion. ... Mr Podsnap’s world was not a very large world, morally; no, nor even geographically: seeing that although his business was sustained upon commerce with other countries, he considered other countries, with that important reservation, a mistake.”
As Podsnap himself adds, “No Other Country is so Favoured as This Country. ... This Island was Blest, Sir, to the Direct Exclusion of such Other Countries as -- as there may happen to be.”
Podsnap, the walking embodiment of moral myopia in a world so tight no unpleasant facts gets through."
Indeed! This seems so familiar...
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Today's Word is Podsnap:
"Podsnap is a pompous, jingoistic character, proudly immune to nuance. As Dickens describes him, “Mr Podsnap was well-to-do, and stood very high in Mr Podsnap’s opinion. ... Mr Podsnap’s world was not a very large world, morally; no, nor even geographically: seeing that although his business was sustained upon commerce with other countries, he considered other countries, with that important reservation, a mistake.”
As Podsnap himself adds, “No Other Country is so Favoured as This Country. ... This Island was Blest, Sir, to the Direct Exclusion of such Other Countries as -- as there may happen to be.”
Podsnap, the walking embodiment of moral myopia in a world so tight no unpleasant facts gets through."
Indeed! This seems so familiar...
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Today's #AWAD #AWordADay: ELSEWHEN
with Anu Garg❛❛ Unlike a #BlackHole — a region of #SpaceTime from which you cannot escape if you get too close — a #Wormhole is a region into which you would disappear only to reappear #elsewhere or #elsewhen. ❜❜ 2001 May 20 #WaPo
🔗 https://Wordsmith.org/words/elsewhen.html 2025 Jan 06
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Anu_Garg … #AnuGarg#Community #TimeTravel #Research #vocabulary #lexicon #words #glossary #English #Time #Kronodon
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Today's #AWAD #AWordADay: ELSEWHEN
with Anu Garg❛❛ Unlike a #BlackHole — a region of #SpaceTime from which you cannot escape if you get too close — a #Wormhole is a region into which you would disappear only to reappear #elsewhere or #elsewhen. ❜❜ 2001 May 20 #WaPo
🔗 https://Wordsmith.org/words/elsewhen.html 2025 Jan 06
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Anu_Garg … #AnuGarg#Community #TimeTravel #Research #vocabulary #lexicon #words #glossary #English #Time #Kronodon
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Today's #AWAD #AWordADay: ELSEWHEN
with Anu Garg❛❛ Unlike a #BlackHole — a region of #SpaceTime from which you cannot escape if you get too close — a #Wormhole is a region into which you would disappear only to reappear #elsewhere or #elsewhen. ❜❜ 2001 May 20 #WaPo
🔗 https://Wordsmith.org/words/elsewhen.html 2025 Jan 06
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Anu_Garg … #AnuGarg#Community #TimeTravel #Research #vocabulary #lexicon #words #glossary #English #Time #Kronodon
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Today's #AWAD #AWordADay: ELSEWHEN
with Anu Garg❛❛ Unlike a #BlackHole — a region of #SpaceTime from which you cannot escape if you get too close — a #Wormhole is a region into which you would disappear only to reappear #elsewhere or #elsewhen. ❜❜ 2001 May 20 #WaPo
🔗 https://Wordsmith.org/words/elsewhen.html 2025 Jan 06
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Anu_Garg … #AnuGarg#Community #TimeTravel #Research #vocabulary #lexicon #words #glossary #English #Time #Kronodon
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Today's #AWAD #AWordADay: ELSEWHEN
with Anu Garg❛❛ Unlike a #BlackHole — a region of #SpaceTime from which you cannot escape if you get too close — a #Wormhole is a region into which you would disappear only to reappear #elsewhere or #elsewhen. ❜❜ 2001 May 20 #WaPo
🔗 https://Wordsmith.org/words/elsewhen.html 2025 Jan 06
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Anu_Garg … #AnuGarg#Community #TimeTravel #Research #vocabulary #lexicon #words #glossary #English #Time #Kronodon
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“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”
Mary Wollstonecraft; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; 1792.
#wordSmith #aWordADay -
“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”
Mary Wollstonecraft; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; 1792.
#wordSmith #aWordADay -
“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”
Mary Wollstonecraft; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; 1792.
#wordSmith #aWordADay -
“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”
Mary Wollstonecraft; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; 1792.
#wordSmith #aWordADay -
“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”
Mary Wollstonecraft; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; 1792.
#wordSmith #aWordADay -
#Quotes #SelfExpression #Opinions #AWordADay
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. -John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (20 May 1806-1873) -
#Quotes #SelfExpression #Opinions #AWordADay
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. -John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (20 May 1806-1873) -
#Quotes #SelfExpression #Opinions #AWordADay
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. -John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (20 May 1806-1873) -
#Quotes #SelfExpression #Opinions #AWordADay
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. -John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (20 May 1806-1873) -
#Quotes #SelfExpression #Opinions #AWordADay
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. -John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (20 May 1806-1873) -
#AWordADay #AnuGarg #AWAD #Wordplay #DadJokes
In Anu Garg's weekday email, the word was "tangent" in a week of math/geometry terms.
Of course, my mind went:
Tangent: The dapper dude that sprays a certain orange-y bronze-ish color on an egomaniac and then tells him how great it looks.
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#AWordADay #AnuGarg #AWAD #Wordplay #DadJokes
In Anu Garg's weekday email, the word was "tangent" in a week of math/geometry terms.
Of course, my mind went:
Tangent: The dapper dude that sprays a certain orange-y bronze-ish color on an egomaniac and then tells him how great it looks.
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#AWordADay #AnuGarg #AWAD #Wordplay #DadJokes
In Anu Garg's weekday email, the word was "tangent" in a week of math/geometry terms.
Of course, my mind went:
Tangent: The dapper dude that sprays a certain orange-y bronze-ish color on an egomaniac and then tells him how great it looks.
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#AWordADay #AnuGarg #AWAD #Wordplay #DadJokes
In Anu Garg's weekday email, the word was "tangent" in a week of math/geometry terms.
Of course, my mind went:
Tangent: The dapper dude that sprays a certain orange-y bronze-ish color on an egomaniac and then tells him how great it looks.
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#AWordADay #AnuGarg #AWAD #Wordplay #DadJokes
In Anu Garg's weekday email, the word was "tangent" in a week of math/geometry terms.
Of course, my mind went:
Tangent: The dapper dude that sprays a certain orange-y bronze-ish color on an egomaniac and then tells him how great it looks.
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Another new word to me that I probably knew at one point. Maybe?
umbrageous
PRONUNCIATION:
(uhm-BRAY-juhs)MEANING:
adjective:
1. Inclined to take offense easily.
2. Cast in shadow; shaded.
3. Providing shade.ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin umbra (shade, shadow) + -ous (full of). Earliest documented use: 1587. -
Another new word to me that I probably knew at one point. Maybe?
umbrageous
PRONUNCIATION:
(uhm-BRAY-juhs)MEANING:
adjective:
1. Inclined to take offense easily.
2. Cast in shadow; shaded.
3. Providing shade.ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin umbra (shade, shadow) + -ous (full of). Earliest documented use: 1587. -
Another new word to me that I probably knew at one point. Maybe?
umbrageous
PRONUNCIATION:
(uhm-BRAY-juhs)MEANING:
adjective:
1. Inclined to take offense easily.
2. Cast in shadow; shaded.
3. Providing shade.ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin umbra (shade, shadow) + -ous (full of). Earliest documented use: 1587. -
Another new word to me that I probably knew at one point. Maybe?
umbrageous
PRONUNCIATION:
(uhm-BRAY-juhs)MEANING:
adjective:
1. Inclined to take offense easily.
2. Cast in shadow; shaded.
3. Providing shade.ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin umbra (shade, shadow) + -ous (full of). Earliest documented use: 1587. -
Another new word to me that I probably knew at one point. Maybe?
umbrageous
PRONUNCIATION:
(uhm-BRAY-juhs)MEANING:
adjective:
1. Inclined to take offense easily.
2. Cast in shadow; shaded.
3. Providing shade.ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin umbra (shade, shadow) + -ous (full of). Earliest documented use: 1587. -
#Quotes #AndreMalraux #Sons #Trauma #Terrorist #AnuGarg #AWordADay
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The sons of torture victims make good terrorists. -Andre Malraux, novelist, adventurer, art historian, and statesman (3 Nov 1901-1976) -
#Quotes #AndreMalraux #Sons #Trauma #Terrorist #AnuGarg #AWordADay
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The sons of torture victims make good terrorists. -Andre Malraux, novelist, adventurer, art historian, and statesman (3 Nov 1901-1976) -
#Quotes #AndreMalraux #Sons #Trauma #Terrorist #AnuGarg #AWordADay
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The sons of torture victims make good terrorists. -Andre Malraux, novelist, adventurer, art historian, and statesman (3 Nov 1901-1976) -
#Quotes #AndreMalraux #Sons #Trauma #Terrorist #AnuGarg #AWordADay
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The sons of torture victims make good terrorists. -Andre Malraux, novelist, adventurer, art historian, and statesman (3 Nov 1901-1976) -
#Quotes #AndreMalraux #Sons #Trauma #Terrorist #AnuGarg #AWordADay
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The sons of torture victims make good terrorists. -Andre Malraux, novelist, adventurer, art historian, and statesman (3 Nov 1901-1976) -
apanthropy • noun: A desire to be away from people; a love of solitude.
From Greek apo- (away) + -anthropy (human). Earliest documented use: 1753.#AWordADay / Anu Garg
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apanthropy • noun: A desire to be away from people; a love of solitude.
From Greek apo- (away) + -anthropy (human). Earliest documented use: 1753.#AWordADay / Anu Garg
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apanthropy • noun: A desire to be away from people; a love of solitude.
From Greek apo- (away) + -anthropy (human). Earliest documented use: 1753.#AWordADay / Anu Garg
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apanthropy • noun: A desire to be away from people; a love of solitude.
From Greek apo- (away) + -anthropy (human). Earliest documented use: 1753.#AWordADay / Anu Garg
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apanthropy • noun: A desire to be away from people; a love of solitude.
From Greek apo- (away) + -anthropy (human). Earliest documented use: 1753.#AWordADay / Anu Garg