word of the day...

[skygal3 0]

...I kinda like bluefingers post though!

The Word of the Day for October 10 is:
palaver \puh-LAV-ur or puh-LAH-vur\ (noun)
1 a : a long parley usually between persons of different
cultures or levels of sophistication *b : conference,
discussion
2 a : idle talk b : misleading or beguiling speech
Example sentence:
Everday, the members of dz.com hold various palavers on the talkback forum instead of doing their work...
Did you know?
During the 18th century, Portuguese and English sailors
often met during trading trips along the African coast. This
contact prompted the English to borrow the Portuguese "palavra,"
a word for a conference or for misleading, idle talk. The
Portuguese word traces back to the Late Latin "parabola," a
noun meaning "speech, parable," which in turn comes from the
Greek "parabole," meaning "juxtaposition, comparison."

[nws01 0]

Good morning, SkyGal! What is tickling your fancy this morning?

[skymama 37]

You wish YOU were tickling her fancy, Nathan!

(I can't believe you have a third alter ego now!)

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[nacmacfeegle 0]

Good morning skygal....

As always there is more to your word for the day than you may think.....

Palaver also means a mild hassle, so....

Nacmac couldn't be bothered with packing, that whole palaver just got him down, whenever possible he would use a palaver preventing packer.

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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

[nws01 0]

Quote

(I can't believe you have a third alter ego now!)

Believe it or not it is not me. It is a certain someone who is creative!

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[skygal3 0]

oh god...this is getting confusing now...
(nate, is that you??? why are your hands suddenly so cold...kate flashes to the scene in rocky horror where brad is not really brad...)
Good Morning!!!

[jfields 0]

http://wordsmith.org/awad/index.html

Another daily word mailing list for when you want to build up your vocabulary or at least sound vaguely intelligent.

[nws01 0]

Just look at the titles. If it says Pooh Bah it is me. If it says newbie it is not.

[skymama 37]

heehee, yes, I knew it wasn't you, hense the .

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[nacmacfeggle 0]

> oh god...this is getting confusing now...

You don't say?

[jfields 0]

suborner (sub-ORN-uhr) noun

One who suborns i.e. induces another to perform an unlawful act secretly
or give false testimony.

[From Latin subornare, from sub- (secretly) + ornare (to equip). Other
words that derive from the same root (ornare): adorn, ornate.]

"I am not in the least provoked at the Sight of a Lawyer, a Pick-pocket,
a Colonel, a Fool, a Lord, a Gamester, a Politician, a Whore-Master, a
Physician, an Evidence, a Suborner, an Attorney, a Traitor, or the like:
This is all according to the due Course of Things."
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (Part IV. A Voyage to the Country of
The Houyhnhnms), 1726.

This week's theme: Words from Gulliver's Travels.

[nacmacfeegle 0]

Are personality disorders contagious?
I've been suffering from delusions of adequacy recently....

Hint look also for subtle spelling changes in the poster's name....

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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson