Barmecidal
adjective
giving ONLY the illusion of plenty; illusory
I totally LOVE the origin of this word!Barmecide is the name of a family of princes in a tale from The Thousand and One Nights. One prince in the family torments a beggar by inviting him to a fabulous feast, at which all the dishes are imaginary. The poor man plays along with his malicious host, pretending to get drunk on the imaginary wine; he then gets even by knocking down the patronizing royal. (source)
Gee, sounds just like something Prince Eric or Prince Shit for Brains Jr. would do.Ideogram
noun
a written symbol that represents an idea or object directly rather than a particular word or speech sound, as a Chinese character.
I keep reading this as “Idiotgram.” This would refer, of course, to the radically dimwitted, racist and/or misogynist tweets by 45, one of his fellow tiny dicked white power tools or one of the renfields hoping for a pat on the head and a “good boy.”
A word to the intellectually sub par, racist chant yelling, flag-waving, fearful xenophobes who idolize Donnie the Dumb Shit. He’s not gonna throw you one of his spare blondes. Even if he did, they’re not gonna do the deed unless you ante up the benjamins first. Don’t got no benjamins? Yur shit outta luck. Ya think beautiful woman fuck that ugly mug for free?
Remora – you know the remora eel, a slender marine fish which attaches itself to large fish by means of a sucker on top of the head. It generally feeds on the host's external parasites.
This word is also a noun meaning an obstacle, hindrance, or obstruction.
As in:
McConnell is a mammoth remora to our progress as a nation which is why I’m hoping Kentuckians smarten up and elect Amy McGrath.Peccable
adjective
liable to sin or error.
Formed from the Latin verb peccāre “to go wrong, make a mistake, act incorrectly, commit a moral or sexual offense.”
Trump, who is as deviant and peccable as Epstein, should also be in jail without the possibility of bail.
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noun
keenness of mental perception and understanding; discernment; penetration.
The extreme embarrassment now occupying the oval office, exhibits, on a daily basis, an utter paucity of perspicacity –'cept where hate and working the con are concerned.Brainchild
noun
a product of one’s creative work or thought.
Doing the opposite of what the citizens of this once great nation want/need is the only child of McConnell’s brain. The man’s a vast and barren wasteland as a human being and public servant.Caducity
noun
frailty; transitoriness: the caducity of life.
It can also mean “senile.”
The pResident’s radical caducity was on full display in his July 4rth revolutionary war airports speech.OK, enough thinking. Is it high tide YET?!
a written symbol that represents an idea or object directly rather than a particular word or speech sound, as a Chinese character.
ReplyDeleteNo, no, no. I get so tired of this endlessly-popular misconception. Chinese characters represent words of the Chinese language. They are not ideograms. Some of them do it without reference to sound (although more than 90% of Chinese characters contain a phonetic element which gives some clue to the pronunciation), but each Chinese character or combination of characters represents a specific spoken word.
Examples of actual ideograms would be the biohazard symbol or a corporate logo or the red circle with a slash through it which means "not" or "forbidden". Those convey concepts without reference to words. There aren't many ideograms because it's difficult for people to remember large numbers of them, and it would be rather pointless since words are the main way humans convey meaning.
"Barmecidal" ought to mean "prone to killing large numbers of barmaids". The actual name of the family (they really existed, back in the 8th century) was Barmakî, by the way. The early translators of The Thousand and One Nights were prone to some odd habits in spelling Persian and Arabic names.
"Peccable" ought to mean "subject to attack by woodpeckers". If they want to pecc at Epstein or Trump, fine with me.
Hah! Yes, Trump and Epstein SHOULD be victimized by roving bands of rabid woodpeckers!
DeleteI get what you're saying re:ideograms but I do wonder if Chinese and Japanese characters ARE somewhat ideogrameque in their respective languages.
According to the definition you quoted, no. The definition says an ideogram is a "symbol that represents an idea or object directly rather than a particular word". Chinese characters are exactly not that. They represent words, period. Just as a string of letters in English such as "one" or "tree" or "go" each represents a specific spoken English word, so each Chinese character represents a specific spoken Chinese word (actually a syllable, but most syllables in Chinese are words).
DeleteI have quite a few books about Chinese writing, and the popular idea that the characters are ideographic is a standing source of exasperation to scholars in the field.
Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese writing system work rather differently because each character can have more than one pronunciation, something which doesn't happen in Chinese. But that's really just a way of saying that in Japanese, each character can be used to write more than one word, or part of a word (Japanese writing is really complicated). The characters still represent spoken words. They just do a really bad job at it, because the Japanese had the misfortune to create their writing system by adapting Chinese characters, and Chinese and Japanese are about as different from each other as it's possible for two languages to be, so the Chinese writing system doesn't fit Japanese very well and the system the Japanese ended up with is a complete mess. But it's still a system for writing words.
Thanks for the clarification!
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