Word of the day

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We didn't want to say anything, but .......

 

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Maladjusted is a long descriptive word.

 

Well if this is a word of the day topic, i will stick to the good old management words used for encouragement (you know the sort): Productive .

 

My word of the day.

moiety
(chemistry) A part or portion of a molecule, generally complex, having a characteristic chemical or pharmacological property.

You can find more here at the wiki.

 

Heres mine:

eructation \ih-ruhk-TAY-shuhn\ , noun;

The act of belching; a belch.

 

Which is part of what makes it such a good word of the day, apologising for your eructation causes plenty of people to do a double take

 

I think the majority of the people on this planet suffer from that

 

New one for today:

obscurantism

PRONUNCIATION:
(uhb-SKYOOR-uhn-tiz-uhm, ob-skyoo-RAN-tiz-uhm)

MEANING:
noun:
1. Opposition to the spread of knowledge.
2. Being deliberately vague or obscure; also a style in art and literature.


ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin obscurare (to make dark).


USAGE:
"Jeane Kirkpatrick possessed the rare gift of being able to write subtle and challenging studies of international politics and to formulate strikingly simple and apt phrases to cut through obscurantism and cant."
Joseph P. Duggan; Jeane Kirkpatrick Set a Very High Bar; St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri); Dec 18, 2006.

 

You could otherwise describe that word by saying you care what other people think...

I think whoever thought of this word should be shot then crushed by a thousand dictionarys

Its a ridiculous word that just means exactly the same as a couple of really basic words stringed together.

Then again its a word that people in the medical profession would use to sound clever, whether or not they would actually be clever for knowing that word is another matter.

The meaning of the word is extremley basic yet you could ask 1000 people in the street what that word means and you would be lucky if 10 out of those thousand knew what it mean't but 950 people out of those 1000 wouldn't have trouble understanding its meaning, if the meaning of the word is described to them.

 

My word of the day:

Headache

Definition:

Ouch it flipping well hurts.

 

One of my favorites is obfuscation, from the same roots.

 

I came across the word 'ornery' whilst reading a book on CSS recently.

It means :-

Mean-spirited, disagreeable, and contrary in disposition; cantankerous

In the book it was applied to the Internet Explorer web browser, during discussion of the many workarounds that are needed to make web-pages properly render with it. I thought this was fairly amusing and wondered if 'ornery' could be applied to Microsoft in other areas, though maybe that's not entirely fair

Another word that came up in this book, whilst discussing these problems, was 'snafu' :-

n. pl. sna·fus
A chaotic or confused situation.
adj.
In a state of confusion or chaos.
tr.v. sna·fued, sna·fu·ing, sna·fus
To make confused or chaotic.

I think the letters S.N.A.F.U. stand for something - (you could look it up). Its basically what you often get when your web page design, which works fine in Firefox or any browsers, is tested with IE, especially versions 6 or 7 (or God forbid, v5).

(Apologies for 'obscurantism' of my own - I am not on this forum very regularly)

Anyway there's two good words for you!

 

SNAFU= Situation Normal, All F'ed Up

TARFU= Things Are Really F'ed Up

 

and of course FUBAR = F'ed Up Beyond All Recognition

 

Yup that's what I believe it stands for

I think the word originated in the military, though I'm not 100% sure on that.

Re TARFU, yeah I know the feeling well, though SNAFU'd sounds better!

 

Never knew that, but sounds plausible, maybe also another military term - so this is where the 'foobar' word comes from, that always seemed like a private joke of some kind that I never got.