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- Sun May 12, 2024 1:05 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Nitty-gritty
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2556
Re: Nitty-gritty
Does the "nitty" part not refer to nits?
- Sun May 12, 2024 1:02 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Nitty-gritty
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2556
Re: Nitty-gritty
Sorry, I don't know how to remove a mistake
- Sun May 12, 2024 12:43 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Mother
- Replies: 2
- Views: 70
Re: Mother
Thank you, Slava, for being careful with your spelling of the word.
- Sat May 11, 2024 4:08 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Tendentious
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2928
Re: Tendentious
Slava, I suppose one could in a base three system.
1 2 10 11 etc.
1 2 10 11 etc.
- Thu May 09, 2024 12:27 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Urbicide
- Replies: 2
- Views: 97
Re: Urbicide
Thank you for including the information about Saudi. You might have included the fact that evidently MBS suggested anyone objecting to being removed from the path of this grand new idea be eliminated (in the old Mafia-speak meaning of the word). One other comment, though. While I agree with the hist...
- Thu May 09, 2024 12:04 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Stratagem
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8454
Re: Stratagem
I might suggest there are a number of stratagems for lasting peace, Middle East or anywhere else. What's lacking is not answers. What's lacking is the will. In most cases lately it would seem that maintaining power to protect personal interests/positions takes precedence over any consideration for l...
- Tue May 07, 2024 10:14 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Information
- Replies: 1
- Views: 82
Re: Information
under word history, should it not be
informatio(n)?
informatio(n)?
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:53 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Cadge
- Replies: 3
- Views: 877
Re: Cadge
David, I think you may have that confused with U.S. slang. Here it means to get someone pregnant, but in U.K., I believe it just means to awaken or get the attention of. There are many many "jokes" about Americans being confused by the U.K. usage while traveling-- either the American in Lo...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:13 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Concord
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1093
Re: Concord
Slava, thank you for the link. Yes, I "hear" a difference between the two also, but was less acutely aware of that fact before your welcome information. I was especially struck by what I think is a side issue. "With this in mind, it’s important to choose your words carefully to ensure...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:01 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Concord
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1093
Re: Concord
Dear Doctor, thank you for that!
Much appreciated.
Much appreciated.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 2:53 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Concord
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1093
Re: Concord
David, is this a chicken and/orn the egg problem? Is accord easier, more familiar, because more used, and concord less so because less used, or has their level of usage not changed over time? Concord and concordance seem to me just as used and useful as accord and accordance. I'm willing to admit to...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:33 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Concord
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1093
Re: Concord
I'm originally from Concord, MA. The name was of course, given by the English who settled there in what was to be the first inland town in the area, after peaceful dialog and an agreement with the local indigenous people. There *was* apparent agreement, but that was because there was no concordance ...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 5:52 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Aposiopesis
- Replies: 1
- Views: 752
Re: Aposiopesis
Any chance this could be used for "senior moments" when half way through a sentence, the train of thought leaves the station?
It might, sounding rather posh, afford a bit of face saving grace-- assuming one can manage to remember the whole word.
It might, sounding rather posh, afford a bit of face saving grace-- assuming one can manage to remember the whole word.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:33 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Coterie
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3738
Re: Coterie
Slava,
Sounds to me like?that? you have the two ends and the middle.
Was that your take on it as well?
Sounds to me like?that? you have the two ends and the middle.
Was that your take on it as well?
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 2:19 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Verge
- Replies: 5
- Views: 605
Re: Verge
"Artificial intelligence puts mankind on the verge of incredible new power at a time when we are also on the verge of destroying the planet we live on." I would say that AI is an horrific new power that will hasten the destruction of the planet we live on. Another case of profit over peopl...