A new posting of another of my favorite words: HYPERBOLE

Just finished watching The Wolf of Wall Street? Is it all hyperbole?  That word packs a wollop in the crazy world we live in today.  I find it most often associated in rhetoric from the Christian religious right, the Republican Party/Tea Party (whatever distinction), although it's really not exclusive to them.   Great word….in concept.  In sound.

hyperbole

hy·per·bo·le

  [hahy-pur-buh-lee]  Show IPA

noun Rhetoric .

1.

obvious and intentional exaggeration.

2.

an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to betaken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”

Compare litotes.

Origin: 
1520–30;  < Greek hyperbolḗ  excess, exaggeration, throwing beyond,equivalent to hyper- hyper- + bolḗ  throw

Synonyms 
2. overstatement.

Antonyms 
2. understatement.

Another FAVORITE word:

dodgy

 adjective \ˈdä-jē\

: false or dishonest

: causing a lack of trust or confidence

: in bad condition

Full Definition of DODGY

1

chiefly British :  evasive, tricky

2

chiefly British

a :  not sound, good, or reliable

b :  questionable, suspicious

3

chiefly British :  requiring skill or care in handling or coping with

— dodg·i·ness  noun

 See dodgy defined for English-language learners »

Examples of DODGY

1. The car's got a dodgy engine.
2. They got into a dodgy situation.

EWAN McGregor!

This is one beautiful man.

And really a brilliant actor.  He is performing an amazing range of roles and in many ways outperforming (IMHO) his contemporaries.

One of my very favorite films from last year, and for all time, is Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, starring two genius actors:   Ewan McGregor and the goddess, Emily Blunt.  Not to mention the brilliant Kristin Scott Thomas.

I've watched this film maybe twenty times since it was released.  I watched it again the other day a couple of times.   Ewan is so fucking charming.   But I was utterly enchanted when he used the word "doolally" in his sexy Scottish accent (everything about this dude is sexy).

I LOVE this word, "doolally", that his character uses.    It describes the world in which we live.  This is the definition I found from http://thefreedictionary.com/p/doolally:

doolally [duːˈlælɪ]

adj

Slang out of one's mind; crazy In full doolally tap

[originally military slang, from Deolali, a town near Bombay, the location of a military sanatorium + Hindustani tap fever]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/doolally

Great word to use for out time.   Especially for the insane "Tea" and Republican Party. Not to mention the religions (especially Christian) around the world:   "Fucking" Doolally.

You should see the brilliant movie, Salmon Fishing In the Yemen!

SUPERB! A new cool photo, finally. And, some fun words to say.

Fun photo from TIME's Today in Pictures. Ring-tailed Lemurs dine on a pre-Christmas surprise of dried fruits served à la Santa Claus boot at an animal park in Hamburg.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/today-in-pictures/0,31511,1945722,00.html#ixzz0YpyT5zvO

Philipp Guelland / AFP / Getty

These pictures are my "lazy" blog day listings. They're quick and easy to post and I don't have to worry too much about typos or bad grammar!

Or I should say they used to be. Time has a great photo collection on their website. I usually select the "cool" photos for this blog from their Today In Pictures or Pictures of the Week collections but for the last 2-3 months the options have been really slim, if non-existent. They haven't had any photos? you ask.

Yes, they've had plenty of photos. But they are all so bleak and depressing....photos of natural disasters; wars; death; destruction; decay; widows/orphans in dire straits; disease; despotism; jingoism/Republicanism (they both mean the same thing); former fascist, dastardly, deceitful, devious ex-Vice Presidents; dead superstars; disastrous, deceitful, devious, delirious, former Vice President Female Republican candidates; morbidly obese, drug-addicted, right wing talk show hosts; dim-witted former reality television stars with overly large families; dead-end wars fought by decrepit, antediluvian, archaic, duplicitous, religious political institutions; .....I could go on.

Don't, please! you say. I can't take anymore! you say.

Well at least we used some of my favorite words in the diatribe above. Don't you love words? I love a Thesaurus.

I suppose that this dearth of happy/positive photos is representative of the time in which we live. But couldn't they include a fucking frivolous photo like the one above, at least occasionally? So the world is coming to an end. Couldn't we have a happy moment or two as part of the mashup? It's our last possible chance for a smile.

My favorite word is fuck. It is the most expressive and exquisite word in the lexicon. Sorry to shock. But I have to be honest. What's even better than a fuck?.....saying the word "fuck" ("Prolly", as daninoksc says, because the word is the only thing available for my use!)

Or antediluvian. Or dearth. Aren't these great and fun words to speak??!!!

Dictionary.com sends out a daily email with a word of the day which, besides my first cup of coffee, is usually the only highlight to facing another "fresh hell" of a day ("fresh hell" thanks to Dorothy Parker: A line attributed many times to Shakespeare but actually it's from American author/critic/poet and wit Dorothy Parker. She is reported to have exclaimed "What fresh hell is this?" when her train of thought was interrupted by a telephone. She then started using it in place of "hello" when answering the phone or a knock at her door.)

Here's a really cool, interesting word from yesterday's dictionary.com email transmission. The word just sounds curious and the meaning is interesting (it's almost an onomatopoeia, no?).

Word of the Day

Friday, December 04, 2009

gallimaufry

\gal-uh-MAW-free\ , noun;

1.

A hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.

Quotes:

Today bilingual programs are conducted in a gallimaufry of around 80 tongues, ranging from Spanish to Lithuanian to Micronesian Yapese.

-- Ezra Bowen, "For Learning or Ethnic Pride?", Time, July 8, 1985

We have the same eyes dark and chestnut hair. But I am a lame gallimaufry and she remains perfect.

-- Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Maran reports the daily jostlings and thrivings in a public school with 3,200 students, 185 teachers, 45 languages, a principal and five vice principals, five safety monitors, 62 sports teams and a gallimaufry of alternative programs, clubs and cliques.

-- Colman McCarthy, "A Writer Goes Back to School", Washington Post, August 20, 2001

Origin:

Gallimaufry, originally meaning "a hash of various kinds of meats," comes from French galimafrée, from Old French, from galer, "to rejoice, to make merry" (source of English gala) + mafrer, "to eat much," from Medieval Dutch maffelen, "to open one's mouth wide."

Have a great day! Let this gallimaufry of a blog posting put a smile on your face to mask the frown!

Evanescence song GOOD ENOUGH and the video are hauntingly beautiful

I think I've mentioned before that I'm kind of old. Proof of that is that I just discovered a wonderful band/singer, called Evanescence (the band's name) and two of their songs which resonated with my current existence a bit.

What little concept I had of Evanescence was that is was ala Marilyn Manson, sort of a satan worshipping thing. I have no idea why I thought that. Maybe I saw a photo of the lead singer and she is sort of goth-ish. So I was shocked when I was at Mango Tango with The Bug having yogurt the other day and I was enchanted with the song MY IMMORTAL that was playing on the muzak (what do they call that these days?). The teenage staff person told me and I was amazed.

This word, evanescence, what does it mean? I just looked it up. What a beautiful word.

ev⋅a⋅nesce

  /ˌɛvəˈnɛs, ˈɛvəˌnɛs/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ev-uh-nes, ev-uh-nes] Show IPA

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–verb (used without object), -nesced, -nesc⋅ing.

to disappear gradually; vanish; fade away.

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Origin:
1815–25; < class="ital-inline">ēvānēscere to vanish

Related forms:

ev⋅a⋅nes⋅cence, noun

ev⋅a⋅nes⋅ci⋅ble, adjective

To dissipate or disappear like vapor. See Synonyms at disappear.

[Latin ēvānēscere, to vanish : ē-, ex-, ex- + vānēscere, to disappear (from vānus, empty; see euə- in Indo-European roots).]
ev'a·nes'cence n.
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Here's the video for the first song, GOOD ENOUGH. Will post on their other song, MY IMMORTAL in a future blog.

This video is rather interesting. I abhor the burning of books, or even the thought, but I don't think that this video is intended to mean what this act of hatred usually means. I was also attracted to the use of so many beautiful books in this video, even though they are eventually burned.

This video is about redemption somehow, no? What do you think about the song, the video and the word evanescence.

INCUNABULA--beautiful word

in⋅cu⋅nab⋅u⋅la

[in-kyoo-nab-yuh-luh, ing-]

–plural noun, singular -lum

1. extant copies of books produced in the earliest stages (before 1501) of printing from movable type.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/INCUNABULA

Isn't that a great word! I was in Colorado Springs last week attending the Colorado Antiquarian Bookseller Seminar which is for booksellers, librarians, collectors. It was a most amazing experience. We were literally immersed for a week learning everything about books. If you're interested in the seminar visit their website at: CABS

Here's some examples of incunabula (see also my previous blog Poet & artist WILLIAM BLAKE-Colorado Springs-Thomas Jefferson and the Library of Congress-cool temperatures)\

click on images to enlarge

Some of my favorite words

Here's some of my favorite words in a "cloud"......either the meaning....the sound of the word, or both.

Enjoy! And leave me a comment below with your favorite words so you can share with other readers of this blogs.

Serendipity ZAFTIG Altacocker Zietgeist

Transcendent guffawed Illuminate schmatta

Renascent SCHADENFREUDE

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