It’s ironic that I’ve chosen to
blog about words and meanings.
I remember that whenever I asked
my father the meaning of a word I wasn’t familiar with he always refused to
tell me, instead he said, “Look it up in the dictionary.”
Using the dictionary was definitely
too much trouble, and I only did it grudgingly if I was working on a school
assignment.
Yet today, with the advent of the
Internet, it’s almost fun to use the search engine of my choice to find out
about why the sagacious, meaning reference to intelligent and
discerning, never use the words priapic or scrofulous.
After I looked up the
words sagacious, priapic, scrofulous, I realized that in
today’s political climate of scurrilous accusations against a sitting President,
the so-called celebrities, and those sagacious members of the media
never use priapic or scrofulous to describe the current President
of the United States.
In place of priapic or scrofulous
the political class continues to deride this sitting President by using the political
whistle words I referred to in my most recent “Words and Meanings” blog,and most
frequently the word racist.
And during the 2016 Presidential
campaign, when NBC released a long held Access Hollywood promotional tape from
over 10 years previous, the most sagacious media used the words, vulgar,
lewd, abusive, womanizer.
If the most sagacious
celebrities plus those in the main stream media now label POTUS 45
with the word scrofulous, meaning immoral, the voters they are seeking
to influence won’t bother to look up words in the dictionary, but they will use the scrofulous word.
The word priapic, the
meaning intent refers to male sexual activity and interests, would be a sagacious
choice to use in derision when describing the current GOP President by the former
Democratic opposition candidate, but that's not in Mrs. Clinton’s interest,
considering the almost impeachment of her husband for moral turpitude.
I think it’s reasonable to
conclude that the sagacious among us who intend to influence others want
to use simplistic words, because their followers are like children, too lazy to
use the dictionary to look up words they don’t know.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/priapic
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sagacious
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