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24 Brilliant New Words That Must Be Added To A Dictionary
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Your Word for the Day: Foofaraw
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foofaraw
a great fuss or disturbance about something very insignificant.Like this post? Subscribe to Mis(s)Usage.
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Seven Words the Internet Reinvented
1. Friend
2. Troll
3. Like
4. Link
5. Address
6. Surf
7. Block
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Loose v Lose
My heart breaks as soon as I saw the word "loose" in this image. It ruins a beautiful message.
Loose and Lose are two words that are often misused.
According to Dictionary.com:
loose[loos] adjective, loos·er, loos·est, adverb, verb, loosed, loos·ing.
adjective
1. free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
2. free from anything that binds or restrains; unfettered: loose cats prowling around in alleyways at night.
3. uncombined, as a chemical element.
4. not bound together: to wear one's hair loose.
5. not put up in a package or other container: loose mushrooms.
lose[looz] verb, lost, los·ing.
verb (used with object)
1. to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
2. to fail inadvertently to retain (something) in such a way that it cannot be immediately recovered: I just lost a dime under this sofa.
3. to suffer the deprivation of: to lose one's job; to lose one's life.
4. to be bereaved of by death: to lose a sister.
5. to fail to keep, preserve, or maintain: to lose one's balance; to lose one's figure.
The word there should be LOSE.
The message should read:
Stop worrying about
what you have to
lose and start
focusing on what you
have to gain.
Word of the Day: Isolato
From Dictionary.com:
isolato \ahy-suh-LEY-toh\ , noun:Source
a person who is spiritually isolated from or out of sympathy with his or her times or society.
Also, in the years since the events you are investigating, my life has been that of an isolato, a shepherd on a mountaintop, situated as far from so-called civilization as possible, and it has made me unnaturally brusque and awkward.
-- Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter, 1998
There is, of course, Paul's unremitting aloneness: he is in every sense an isolato, and if this state is elicited by his impertinence and his refusal to conform, it is brought about as well by the inability of all those around him to perceive either his uniqueness or his pain.
-- Philip Stevick, The American Short Story, 1984
The most predictable Justices now on the Court, Antonin Scalia and Thomas, seem brooding isolatoes, openly contemptuous of the doctrinal laxness of their brethren.
-- Louis Menand, "Decisions, Decisions," The New Yorker, July 11, 2005
Isolato was popularized by Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick. The word comes through Italian from the Latin word insulātus meaning "made into an island."
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German Words In the English Language
I found this article today and I find it really interesting.
I also use the word über to mean exaggerated. I started using it after I took German 10 and 11 classes back in university. Please don't ask me how long ago was that. {lol}
The article starts with:
This is the beauty of a live language. It makes cross overs. In fact, a person who is good at Greek, Roman, and French words almost always can figure out the meaning of a word. He doesn't need a dictionary.
I also use the word über to mean exaggerated. I started using it after I took German 10 and 11 classes back in university. Please don't ask me how long ago was that. {lol}
The article starts with:
Über and Other German Loanwords
"Oprah is so über rich!"
"Those boots are über-hot!"
"My car is über fast, not to mention über sleek."
"What an über-difficult exam that was!"
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This is the beauty of a live language. It makes cross overs. In fact, a person who is good at Greek, Roman, and French words almost always can figure out the meaning of a word. He doesn't need a dictionary.
Dictionary.com's Word of the Year: Tergiversate
Tergiversate
Pronounced "ter-JIV-er-sate", it means “to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.”
