This end of year 2013 features the international and domestic USA kerfuffle, from a not politically correct "ducks dynasty" patriarch, to the USA named for this President universal "Health Care" roll out, and predictions of more than a disaster yet coming for this new "Health Care" yet in a 2014 kerfuffle of unsigned young healthys who are avoiding insurance which is the opposite to the sick and infirm who are clamoring and signing up for their new better insurance.
It's sure to be more of a kerfuffle when according to some the guarantee in this 200 page plus law includes a guarantee to the health care insurance providers that USA taxpayers will pay to bail them out when all the sick and old very sick take up all the premiums with no healthys to prop them up—and that was a run on mouthful.
This is a major disturbance ongoing and coming up, but there's also a fuss about the NSA spying on allies amidst a clamor from civil rights advocates, plus such strange bedfellows like Oregon's Udall and Rand Paul, please, it's noisy when some prominents who are part of the big money in Silicon Valley are doing a cacophony chorus with the notorious Google who collects everyone who has private data with such impunity, and theYahoo that still spies on my e-mails with notices that my session is timed out, also Facebook that uses friends' data to put on ads that speak to their likes, gosh, it's a din that fuddles me.
By now it is obvious that a kerfuffle is of British origin, and is opposite to calm, peace, and tranquility—though when you go back in history and find out that their empire building was the building of states with no rhyme or reason that are now doing worldwide jihad in countries with ethnics at war with each other—and when they, the Brits decided to dissolve their ownership, the rest of the world was left with the mess of more than a kerfuffle.
As I've noted before words and meanings have meaning to our 21st century of daily uncertainty, be it the weather or something that evades the control of a global society, and I don't know about you, but for me that makes life less than than tranquil.
Monday, December 23, 2013
Monday, December 9, 2013
the world is somnolent
This word, somnolent, has such a ringing sound that it's easy to believe this is a word of action toward matters of great importance.
Though in truth, that word is lacking any action, it's like death has come and the world is too tired to care. That the world is somnolent, and now sleep comes as the worst of suffering nears, the world is engaged in material considerations, the toys, the "bling" of the rich who have so much they are indolent, but they wake up fast enough if someone takes what they covet as theirs.
We all live in a time that is somnolent, it's a "let's kick the can down the road," and thus the world sleeps until the explosions hit the prestigious wherever they call home, then the somnolent who are reveling do sound the alarm, and it's loud enough to wake up the world.
That's when we'll have a war, but I think this time the global society will become somnolent because everyone will be blown up, and it will a time for an eternal sleep from which a somnolent world will never wake up.
I've sounded the doomsday horn, but we are now a Western civilized world that craves fantasy in our action films, literature with dragons and heroes that can surmount all obstacles, let's bring back an awakened global society that tends to its own nation by nation rebuilding, and mend our own fences before we seek to rebuild what is not ours.
The word somnolent will never signal action, it's a state that the world has to avoid.
Though in truth, that word is lacking any action, it's like death has come and the world is too tired to care. That the world is somnolent, and now sleep comes as the worst of suffering nears, the world is engaged in material considerations, the toys, the "bling" of the rich who have so much they are indolent, but they wake up fast enough if someone takes what they covet as theirs.
We all live in a time that is somnolent, it's a "let's kick the can down the road," and thus the world sleeps until the explosions hit the prestigious wherever they call home, then the somnolent who are reveling do sound the alarm, and it's loud enough to wake up the world.
That's when we'll have a war, but I think this time the global society will become somnolent because everyone will be blown up, and it will a time for an eternal sleep from which a somnolent world will never wake up.
I've sounded the doomsday horn, but we are now a Western civilized world that craves fantasy in our action films, literature with dragons and heroes that can surmount all obstacles, let's bring back an awakened global society that tends to its own nation by nation rebuilding, and mend our own fences before we seek to rebuild what is not ours.
The word somnolent will never signal action, it's a state that the world has to avoid.
Saturday, November 23, 2013
the new treaty with Iran makes me think of the word meretricious
A first in diplomacy with Iran seems to be welcomed and heartily applauded by the President of the United States and the many foreign ministers who had set their signatures to this first accord to, as the President said, keep the world safe, yet is this not a meretricious agreement, as words can phrase something to please, and yet lack the substance necessary but allow Iran to claim what were frozen funds perhaps to continue what they are doing, and Europe will lift their sanctions as they had no other alternative with no funds to advance to keep the world safe.
This meretricious treaty is perhaps superficially significant, for the meaning of this word is applied to the falsely attractive, and to what seems to be yet isn't.
Time will tell, as will history, but then the beginning of what turned out to be the German advance on a clueless world that had believed in diplomacy as a solution to a country's ambition to dominate the world had come out of yet one more meretricious treaty aimed to keep the world safe.
This meretricious treaty is perhaps superficially significant, for the meaning of this word is applied to the falsely attractive, and to what seems to be yet isn't.
Time will tell, as will history, but then the beginning of what turned out to be the German advance on a clueless world that had believed in diplomacy as a solution to a country's ambition to dominate the world had come out of yet one more meretricious treaty aimed to keep the world safe.
Sunday, November 10, 2013
another emotionless unfathomable word, ineffable
The word, ineffable seems so benign, like someone who hides who they are by putting on another cloak, a blanket of sorts that will cover the truth.
Yet, ineffable, is a description of something that we are not capable of expressing in words.
Something not to be uttered, perhaps a Judeo-Christian Biblical admonition about what can be said and referred to, in other religions
ineffable is what an interpreter determines is permissible to speak of and about.
And then another meaning of this word, ineffable, refers to something too great, powerful or beautiful to be expressed. So why is this a word?
There is no doubt that ineffable is used to note that what it refers to must not or cannot be told to others—so here is a word that puts a gag on verbal or written communication, and when you use ineffable you have to make sure that whatever you want to say cannot be said.
Ineffable is also a word that lends itself to a charade.
This word ineffable is a good word to use in this 21st century of too much discourse and too much communication. What do you think? Is this a word that you would never when you "tweet" or "text"? Perhaps this is a word that needs to be used to get some silence, then we can hear ourselves think about the issues that need thinking about.
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Yet, ineffable, is a description of something that we are not capable of expressing in words.
Something not to be uttered, perhaps a Judeo-Christian Biblical admonition about what can be said and referred to, in other religions
ineffable is what an interpreter determines is permissible to speak of and about.
And then another meaning of this word, ineffable, refers to something too great, powerful or beautiful to be expressed. So why is this a word?
There is no doubt that ineffable is used to note that what it refers to must not or cannot be told to others—so here is a word that puts a gag on verbal or written communication, and when you use ineffable you have to make sure that whatever you want to say cannot be said.
Ineffable is also a word that lends itself to a charade.
This word ineffable is a good word to use in this 21st century of too much discourse and too much communication. What do you think? Is this a word that you would never when you "tweet" or "text"? Perhaps this is a word that needs to be used to get some silence, then we can hear ourselves think about the issues that need thinking about.
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Monday, November 4, 2013
Inchoate is more than a word that lacks emotion...
I don't know about you, but I find words that I am not familiar with when I read The New York Times newspaper—it doesn't matter which section, but the journalists writing in this newspaper can be erudite and acquaint me with words that I'd like to use, but I don't.
When I write something for public consumption, I want to communicate facts plus emotions. As a writer, my need to communicate is the same whether I am communicating with fiction or about a non-fiction subject like travel, and when I'm speaking to someone, I'm not out to show them that I have a BA in English summa cum laude and my vocabulary is better than theirs.
But then I'm not a journalist employed by a major newspaper that doesn't have to dumb down articles—yet I think it's a good idea to treat readers as if all of them are highly intelligent with substantial vocabularies, rather than stupid dummies who aren't ready to tax their minds.
Though when writing a book, it's different, since a writer of books wants to sell them, and the audience pool has to be considered.
And sadly, in this 21st century the secondary collages that lack the student pool of the Ivy League Universities have to teach basic reading and math skills since the standard high school education in the US of A is no longer considered world class. But to get back to the word, inchoate, this is a word without the sounds that form an emotional punch, it's a matter-of-fact kind of word.
One meaning refers to something factually stated—imperfectly formed—yet another meaning has a sinister connotation—the suspicion that all is not well could refer to what is being said by a governmental authority, and is not the full truth.
What do you think about this word, is it a word you would use to describe someones behavior, or a way of telling someone that the real truth is being kept from you??
Let me hear from about other words you know of that lack emotion but have a deep descriptive meaning.
When I write something for public consumption, I want to communicate facts plus emotions. As a writer, my need to communicate is the same whether I am communicating with fiction or about a non-fiction subject like travel, and when I'm speaking to someone, I'm not out to show them that I have a BA in English summa cum laude and my vocabulary is better than theirs.
But then I'm not a journalist employed by a major newspaper that doesn't have to dumb down articles—yet I think it's a good idea to treat readers as if all of them are highly intelligent with substantial vocabularies, rather than stupid dummies who aren't ready to tax their minds.
Though when writing a book, it's different, since a writer of books wants to sell them, and the audience pool has to be considered.
And sadly, in this 21st century the secondary collages that lack the student pool of the Ivy League Universities have to teach basic reading and math skills since the standard high school education in the US of A is no longer considered world class. But to get back to the word, inchoate, this is a word without the sounds that form an emotional punch, it's a matter-of-fact kind of word.
One meaning refers to something factually stated—imperfectly formed—yet another meaning has a sinister connotation—the suspicion that all is not well could refer to what is being said by a governmental authority, and is not the full truth.
What do you think about this word, is it a word you would use to describe someones behavior, or a way of telling someone that the real truth is being kept from you??
Let me hear from about other words you know of that lack emotion but have a deep descriptive meaning.
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Saturday, October 19, 2013
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