Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Christopher Lasch
viernes, 6 de mayo de 2011
Word of the Day
gesundheit\guh-ZOONT-hyte
DEFINITION interjection
-- used to wish good health especially to one who has just sneezed
EXAMPLES
"Gesundheit!" said the man on the bicycle as he passed a lady on the sidewalk who had sneezed.
"The air was filled with 'God Bless You' and 'Gesundheit' as our Tuesday study group got together the other day…. We were reading together accompanied by sneezes, but it helped us ignore our stuffed-up heads." -- From an article by Sirkka Holm in the Finnish American Reporter, December 2010
DID YOU KNOW?
When English speakers hear "achoo," they usually respond with either "gesundheit" or "God bless you." "Gesundheit" was borrowed from German, where it literally means "health"; it was formed by a combination of "gesund" ("healthy") and "-heit" ("-hood"). Wishing a person good health when they sneezed was traditionally believed to forestall the illness that a sneeze often portends. "God bless you" had a similar purpose, albeit with more divine weight to the well-wishing. It was once believed that the soul could exit the body during a sneeze, causing ill health, so folks said "God bless you" to ward off this danger. "Gesundheit," at one time, also served as a toast when drinking (much like its English counterpart, "to your health"), but this usage is now mostly obsolete.
DEFINITION interjection
-- used to wish good health especially to one who has just sneezed
EXAMPLES
"Gesundheit!" said the man on the bicycle as he passed a lady on the sidewalk who had sneezed.
"The air was filled with 'God Bless You' and 'Gesundheit' as our Tuesday study group got together the other day…. We were reading together accompanied by sneezes, but it helped us ignore our stuffed-up heads." -- From an article by Sirkka Holm in the Finnish American Reporter, December 2010
DID YOU KNOW?
When English speakers hear "achoo," they usually respond with either "gesundheit" or "God bless you." "Gesundheit" was borrowed from German, where it literally means "health"; it was formed by a combination of "gesund" ("healthy") and "-heit" ("-hood"). Wishing a person good health when they sneezed was traditionally believed to forestall the illness that a sneeze often portends. "God bless you" had a similar purpose, albeit with more divine weight to the well-wishing. It was once believed that the soul could exit the body during a sneeze, causing ill health, so folks said "God bless you" to ward off this danger. "Gesundheit," at one time, also served as a toast when drinking (much like its English counterpart, "to your health"), but this usage is now mostly obsolete.
jueves, 5 de mayo de 2011
Born On This Day: Ian McCulloch, May 5, 1959
The lead singer for Echo and the Bunnymen celebrates his birthday today. Ian was born in Liverpool, England.
martes, 3 de mayo de 2011
Phrase of the Day
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
Sir Wilfred Grenfell (1865 - 1940)
Sir Wilfred Grenfell (1865 - 1940)
Word of the Day
odious\OH-dee-us\
DEFINITION adjective
: arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful
EXAMPLES
Martin was an odious person: cruel, violent, and deceitful, willing to do anything to anyone to gain the wealth and power he craved.
"The audition process and the testing process is so odious and miserable that you don't want to do it unless there is a prospect of working with great people on the other end." -- From an interview with Martha Plimpton in the Windy City Times, March 23, 2011
DID YOU KNOW?
"Odious" has been with us since the days of Middle English. We borrowed it from Anglo-French, which in turn had taken it from Latin "odiosus." The Latin adjective came from the noun "odium," meaning "hatred." "Odium" is also an ancestor of the English verb "annoy" (another word that came to Middle English via Anglo-French). And, at the beginning of the 17th century, "odium" entered English in its unaltered form, giving us a noun meaning "hatred" or "disgrace" (as in "ideas that have incurred much odium").
DEFINITION adjective
: arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful
EXAMPLES
Martin was an odious person: cruel, violent, and deceitful, willing to do anything to anyone to gain the wealth and power he craved.
"The audition process and the testing process is so odious and miserable that you don't want to do it unless there is a prospect of working with great people on the other end." -- From an interview with Martha Plimpton in the Windy City Times, March 23, 2011
DID YOU KNOW?
"Odious" has been with us since the days of Middle English. We borrowed it from Anglo-French, which in turn had taken it from Latin "odiosus." The Latin adjective came from the noun "odium," meaning "hatred." "Odium" is also an ancestor of the English verb "annoy" (another word that came to Middle English via Anglo-French). And, at the beginning of the 17th century, "odium" entered English in its unaltered form, giving us a noun meaning "hatred" or "disgrace" (as in "ideas that have incurred much odium").
Today In Alternative Music History: May 3, 2007
Blur drummer Dave Rowntree runs as a Labour Party candidate in the Westminster area of London for a local council seat. "In my experience of living (in Westminster), it all looks lovely -- there are hanging baskets everywhere -- but you only need to scratch the surface and see that there's a lot of deprivation and a lot of inequality around," says Rowntree. He runs in a predominantly conservative district. He doesn't get elected.
lunes, 2 de mayo de 2011
Alt-Rocker Quotes
"The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters."Colin Greenwood (Radiohead)
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