Satty's Word Of The Day

[mrs jesus]

hello, nasty

[saturnine]

furtive \FUR-tiv\, adjective:

1. Done by stealth; surreptitious; secret; as, a furtive look.

2. Expressive of stealth; sly; shifty; sneaky.

3. Stolen; obtained by stealth.

4. Given to stealing; thievish; pilfering.

 

Furtive is from Latin furtivus, from furtum, "theft," from fur, "thief."

[Ravenous itchy]

I've used furtive more than a few times.

[saturnine]

if i were to use it whilst conversing with the majority of skin farms, i'd be forced to use a more accessible synonym.

[mrs jesus]

skin farms?

[saturnine]

people..

[mrs jesus]

yeah, obviously, i've just never heard that term before

[saturnine]

platitude \PLAT-uh-tood; -tyood\, noun:

1. Staleness of ideas or language; triteness.

2. A thought or remark that is banal, trite, or stale.

 

Yet a curious thing happens in this book: Whatever promise it offers of satire and enlightened vision dissipates into cliche and platitude.

--Edward Rothstein, "Against Galactic Rhetoric," New York Times, April 3, 1983

 

She'll have to cut the platitudes and start saying something unusual and provocative, which she hasn't yet.

--Jonathan Alter, "Why It's Time to Let Loose," Newsweek, December 6, 1999

 

Platitude derives from French plat, "flat." It is related to plate, a flat piece of metal or a flat dish in which food is served or from which it is eaten; and plateau, a broad, level, elevated area of land. The adjective form of platitude is platitudinous.

[mrs jesus]

new word, plz.

[saturnine]

tran

[mrs jesus]

i think fugacious woulda been a better one

[saturnine]

you're fugacious

[mrs jesus]

ok

 

fugacious was Word of the Day on December 4, 1999.

Edited June 26, 2005 by mrs jesus

[Ravenous Yam]

This thread delivers. Educational and entertaining.

[saturnine]

that's the definition of saturnine

[mrs jesus]

oh, that saturnine.

 

a legend in his own mind.

[saturnine]

how i love to waste your time

[mrs jesus]

you haven't wasted my time in days

 

i don't know if that's luck or punishment

[saturnine]

discursive \dis-KUR-siv\, adjective:

1. Passing from one topic to another; ranging over a wide field; digressive; rambling.

2. Utilizing, marked by, or based on analytical reasoning -- contrasted with intuitive.

 

The style is highly discursive, leap-frogging forwards and backwards across the decades, without ever sacrificing thrust or clarity.

--Nicholas Blincoe, "Spirit that speaks," The Guardian, August 21, 1999

 

Rather than being a limiting influence, the time restrictions seem often to have compelled ensembles and soloists to condense and distill arrangements and to edit potentially discursive solo performances.

--Richard M. Sudhalter, Lost Chords

 

He is in general a discursive politician: Start him talking and you cannot get him to stop.

--Dan Balz, "President Endures Embarrassing Week," Washington Post, March 15, 1998

 

He is an intuitive being who can pierce to the heart of a matter without taking the circuitous route of deeper and more discursive minds.

--"1962 Man of the Year: Pope John XXIII," Time, January 4, 1963

 

 

Discursive comes from Latin discurrere, "to run in different directions, to run about, to run to and fro," from dis-, "apart, in different directions" + currere, "to run."

Edited June 29, 2005 by saturnine

[mrs jesus]

discursive \dis-KUR-siv\, adjective:

1. Passing from one topic to another; ranging over a wide field; digressive; rambling.

2. Utilizing, marked by, or based on analytical reasoning -- contrasted with intuitive.

 

The style is highly discursive, leap-frogging forwards and backwards across the decades, without ever sacrificing thrust or clarity.

--Nicholas Blincoe, "Spirit that speaks," The Guardian, August 21, 1999

 

Rather than being a limiting influence, the time restrictions seem often to have compelled ensembles and soloists to condense and distill arrangements and to edit potentially discursive solo performances.

--Richard M. Sudhalter, Lost Chords

 

He is in general a discursive politician: Start him talking and you cannot get him to stop.

--Dan Balz, "President Endures Embarrassing Week," Washington Post, March 15, 1998

 

He is an intuitive being who can pierce to the heart of a matter without taking the circuitous route of deeper and more discursive minds.

--"1962 Man of the Year: Pope John XXIII," Time, January 4, 1963

 

 

Discursive comes from Latin discurrere, "to run in different directions, to run about, to run to and fro," from dis-, "apart, in different directions" + currere, "to run."

see also: christy

[saturnine]

colloquial \kuh-LOH-kwee-uhl\, adjective:

characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of colloquial English"; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial phrases; a colloquial style.

 

``To use a colloquial phrase, such sentiments...do one's heart good.''

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

``The abandonment of...poetic diction for the colloquial language of real life.''

--John Richard Green

 

``His [samuel Johnson's] colloquial talents were, indeed, of the highest order.''

--Macaulay

 

Colloquial is from the Latin colloquium, a conversation, from col- (com-), with, together + loquor, loqui, to speak.

[Maverick]

Is there something wrong with me, knowing the fact that I'm completely familiar with most of these words. In fact, I use them almost daily.

 

Why can't I be more like Saturnine, being entertained by meaninglessly complex words in the dictionary that I can't come close to comprehending? Why can't it be like that?

 

Fuck, I wish I was a brain-dead slob.

[saturnine]

oh, come on.. you're trying too hard to be insulting. it's not even moderately amusing or creative anymore.

[Maverick]

In all honesty, this one is sincere. It sucks to know that I wasted my life just for a good vocabulary. Or, in a colloquial sense, I done fucked up real good.

 

EDIT: Your wish is my command

Edited July 5, 2005 by Maverick

[saturnine]

done always goes in front of fucked in that context. silly rabbit.