The Zeitgeist Segue
October 10th, 2006 · Posted in Notes to Self ·I use words that are too big…
I was changing topics last night at bible study and mentioned how smooth the segue (seg-way) occured - then I was verbally lambasted for having the audaciousness to use excessively Byzantine terminology when a more facile word would have proven intelligible to the current assemblage.
Then in my postliminary internet perusal I discover that the term ‘zeitgeist’ also exceeds the common vernacular. Well… sorry my vocabulary is overwraught and melodramatic. I’ll endeavour to use an unembellished lexicon henceforth.
RodeoClown: ostentatious.
October 10th, 2006 at 9:25 am
You and me both, you and me both. It’s just like we’re in school again, made to feel badly because we’re paying attention and actually learning something.
October 10th, 2006 at 9:49 am
did you hear me honk?
October 10th, 2006 at 11:42 am
LOL Don’t know what half of those words mean but I like it
October 10th, 2006 at 11:54 am
Spanna - yes.
Nix -
I: myself, Ian Tyrrell, RodeoClown.
too: also, as well as.
sorry: an apology.
the: the definite article.
Did I miss any?
October 10th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
You still didn’t explain what zeitgeist is…
October 10th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
Sure I did, over where I first said it, I posted this link: Zeitgeist
October 11th, 2006 at 7:55 am
Is it correct to define the word “the” using “the” in the definition?
D!
October 11th, 2006 at 8:16 am
Dictionary.com doesn’t use it in the initial definition (so just definite article), but then proceeds to use it in the elaboration.
I have no qualms using a word in it’s own definition when it is a foundational word for the entire language.
October 11th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
you missed a few but I think now you have explained those words I can work it out
October 11th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
OK, glad to hear it
October 11th, 2006 at 4:10 pm
Ah ha! Now everything makes sense.
October 11th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Rodeo - you are a clown!!!
October 18th, 2006 at 8:17 am
Hey do you remember any of those stupid things that you used to have on your pencil case… instead of saying “pride goes before the fall” you could say …
D!
October 18th, 2006 at 8:40 am
I don’t know what it said exactly, but I imagine it was something along the lines of: A supercilious predilection precedes swift negative acceleration.
October 18th, 2006 at 9:44 am
Yeah it was something like that but about 3 time longer!!
There was another one too…?
D!