cognate

Syllabification: cog·nate

Pronunciation: /ˈkägˌnāt 

  

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ADJECTIVE

• 1Linguistics (Of a word) having the same linguistic derivation as another; from the same original word or root (e.g., English is, German ist, Latin est, from Indo-European esti).

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  • English mother and German Mutter are cognate words.
  • There is an interesting but short section on the local adaptive value of cultural rules including dialects and cognate words.
  • However, many linguists think he chose cognate terms too broadly to bolster his reconstruction.
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• 2• formal Related; connected:cognate subjects such as physics and chemistry

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  • His book deals with memes and other cognate subjects less frivolously and with much more academic rigour than I can muster.
  • What we need is a conceptual ‘map’ that allows us to think through where ‘animation’ lies in relation to cognate subject areas.
  • Interferences with the amenities of land and personal injuries arising during the use of land are cognate subjects.
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• 2.1Related to or descended from a common ancestor. Compare with agnate.

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  • The separation of childbearing from domesticity leads to a need for extended families, which are primarily cognate kin groups.

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• 1Linguistics A cognate word.

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  • It's a very old word, with cognates in most Germanic languages.
  • The word neshama is a cognate of nesheema, which means literally ‘breath.’
  • More than a dozen words and cognates are employed throughout the Old Testament for beauty.
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• 2Law A blood relative.

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  • All distinction between agnates and cognates in matters of succession had been abolished at the very time when the great collection of Roman law had been assembled and codified.
  • A kin group usually includes cognates of all degrees and godparents.

punctilious: definition

punctilious

Syllabification: punc·til·i·ous

Pronunciation: /ˌpəNGkˈtilēəs 

  

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• Showing great attention to detail or correct behavior:he was punctilious in providing every amenity for his guests

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  • A punctilious listing of every detail produces prose that is prolix.
  • But the methodology is painstakingly punctilious due to the heavy editing involved.
  • As a teenager he was not particularly punctilious in following the observances of his religion.

trenchant: definition

trenchant: definition of trenchant in Oxford dictionary (American English) (US): "trenchant
Syllabification: trench·ant
Pronunciation: /ˈtrenCHənt   /
ADJECTIVE 

1Vigorous or incisive in expression or style:
she heard angry voices, not loud, yet certainly trenchant



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From the early 1920s, the ‘New Realism’ of Grosz, Otto Dix, and Christian Schad expressed a trenchant social criticism comparable with the plays of Bertolt Brecht.



So, in the spirit of giving till it hurts, let me offer up to the least deserving of us my annual scathingly incisive yet perennially trenchant.



A quiet and generally even tempered man, he could be and was trenchant in his criticisms as the occasion demanded."



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Perspicacity

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Perspicacity (also called perspicaciousness and perspicuity) is a penetrating discernment—a clarity of vision or intellect which provides a deep understanding and insight.[1] In the 17th century, René Descartes devised systematic rules for clear thinking in his work Regulæ ad directionem ingenii (Rules for the direction of natural intelligence). In Descartes' scheme, intelligence consisted of two faculties: perspicacity, which provided an understanding or intuition of distinct detail; and sagacity, which enabled reasoning about the details in order to make deductions. Rule 9 was De Perspicacitate Intuitionis (On the Perspicacity of Intuition).[2] He summarised the rule as Oportet ingenii aciem ad res minimas et maxime faciles totam convertere, atque in illis diutius immorari, donec assuescamus veritatem distincte et perspicue intueri. We should totally focus the vision of the natural intelligence on the smallest and easiest things, and we should dwell on them for a long time, so long, until we have become accustomed to intuiting the truth distinctly and perspicuously. In his study of the elements of wisdom, the modern psychometrician Robert Sternberg identified perspicacity as one of its six components or dimensions; the other five being reasoning, sagacity, learning, judgement and the expeditious use of information.[3] In his analysis, perspicacity was described as ...has intuition; can offer solutions that are on the side of right and truth; is able to see through things — read between the lines; has the ability to understand and interpret his or her environment. —Robert J. Sternberg , Wisdom: its nature, origins, and development In an article dated October 7, 1966, the journal Science discussed NASA scientist-astronaut program recruitment efforts: To quote an Academy brochure, the quality most needed by a scientist-astronaut is "perspicacity." He must, the brochure says, be able to quickly pick out, from among the thousands of things he sees, those that are significant, and to synthesize observations and develop and test working hypotheses.[4] Being perspicacious about other people, rather than having false illusions, is a sign of good mental health.[5] The quality is needed in psychotherapists who engage in person-to-person dialogue and counselling of the mentally ill.[6] The artist René Magritte illustrated the quality in his 1936 painting Perspicacity. The picture shows an artist at work who studies his subject intently: it is an egg. But the painting which he is creating is not of an egg; it is an adult bird in flight.[7]

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Write Your Members of Congress

The Marketplace Fairness Act hurts small businesses, which in turn, affects us all. The House has signaled the desire to have a binding vote on Internet Sales Tax legislation, or the Marketplace Fairness Act, in the coming weeks. This is a pivotal moment for small businesses who sell online and consumers alike. Write your member of Congress and urge them to vote no on this issue. 

Send This Letter to Your Member of Congress

The Marketplace Fairness Act hurts small businesses, which in turn, affects us all. As your constituent, I am extremely concerned about the Marketplace Fairness Act and the one million dollar small businesses exemption it includes. The Senate has unfortunately passed this bill and if the House takes the same move it will make it nearly impossible for most small businesses to survive.

The current exemption - at 1 million dollars - is far too low for small businesses to stay afloat. After a small business owner pays for goods, shipping costs, taxes and other fees, what's left is barely enough to keep the business up and running, let alone hire a couple of people to handle the sales volume. The Marketplace Fairness Act, if passed in the House, will require small businesses to become tax collectors for every city, town and state in America – that’s 9,600 jurisdictions. These small businesses could be audited or even sued in states where they don’t live, vote or receive government benefits.

If any Internet sales tax legislation is to be enacted, it must include a small business exemption that actually meets a realistic standard for a small business. A meaningful exemption from new Internet sales tax will allow companies to remain competitive and meet the expectations consumers now have for options in merchandise and prices when they shop online. Unfortunately, those in favor of the bill have denied reasonable exemptions mirroring the small business immunities already in place by federation legislation.

In the interest of economic growth, and the preservation of healthy competition in the online marketplace, it is essential that the House acts now to prevent the Marketplace Fairness Act from becoming a reality. If the legislation must be passed, then please ensure that it includes a stronger exemption for small businesses than is currently provided.

I ask that you vote no on the Marketplace Fairness Act (S.336/S.743/H.R.684).

Sincerely, [YOUR NAME]

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A woman went to her doctor. The doctor, after an examination, sighed and said, 
"I've some bad news. You have cancer, and you'd best put your affairs in order."

The woman was shocked, but managed to compose herself and walk into the 
waiting room where her daughter had been waiting. "Well daughter, we women 
celebrate when things are good, and we celebrate when things don't go so well. 
In this case, things aren't well I have cancer. Let's head to the club and have a martini."

After 3 or 4 martinis, the two were feeling a little less somber. 
There were some laughs and more martinis.
They were eventually approached by some of the woman's old friends, 
who were curious as to what the women were celebrating. 
The woman told her friends they were drinking to her impending end. "I've been diagnosed with AIDS." 
The friends were aghast and gave the woman their condolences.

After the friends left, the woman's daughter leaned over and whispered, 
"Momma, I thought you said you were dying of cancer, and you just told your friends
you were dying of AIDS."

The woman said, "I don't want any of them sleeping with your father after I'm gone.

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contumely - Google Search: "con·tu·me·ly
kənˈt(y)o͞oməlē,ˈkänt(y)əˌmēlē,ˈkänˌt(y)o͞omlē/
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1.
insolent or insulting language or treatment.
"the church should not be exposed to gossip and contumely""

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Eponyms that lost their Capitals...

Sandwich

The first written usage of the English word appeared in Edward Gibbon's journal, in longhand, referring to "bits of cold meat" as a "Sandwich".^[12] It was named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, an 18th-century English aristocrat, although he was neither the inventor nor sustainer of the food. It is said that he ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread, and because Montagu also happened to be the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, others began to order "the same as Sandwich!"^[6][7] It is said that Lord Sandwich was fond of this form of food because it allowed him to continue playing cards, particularly cribbage, while eating without getting his cards greasy from eating meat with his bare hands.^[6]

The rumour in its familiar form appeared in Pierre-Jean Grosley's Londres (Neichatel, 1770), translated as A Tour to London 1772;^[13] Grosley's impressions had been formed during a year in London in 1765. The sober alternative is provided by Sandwich's biographer, N. A. M. Rodger, who suggests Sandwich's commitments to the navy, to politics and the arts mean the first sandwich was more likely to have been consumed at his desk.

Before being known as sandwiches, the food seems to simply have been known as "bread and meat" or "bread and cheese".^[6]

Etymology of Sandwich

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NyLon named because the Dupont Chemical Co. had an office in NY and another in London.

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ATF out of control!

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Beer and the Wheel in History...

For those that don't know about history ..... here is a condensed version: 

Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter. 

The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups: 

1 . Liberals 
2. Conservatives. 

Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture.Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum canwere invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed. 

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to BBQ at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement... 

Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly BBQ's and doing the sewing, fetching and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement.

Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. They became known as girlie-men.Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided. 

Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass for obvious reasons. 

Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu and French food are standard liberal fare. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers,personal injury attorneys, trust-funders, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat. 

Conservatives drink domestic beer, mostly Bud, Coors or Miller. They eat red meatand still provide for their women. They are big game hunters, rodeo cowboys,lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, engineers, corporate executives, athletes,members of the military, airline pilots and generally anyone who works productively. 

Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living. 

Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America ... They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing for people who wouldn't work.

Here ends today's lesson in world history: 

It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.

A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other Conservatives and to some Liberals just to piss them off. 

And there you have it.... Let your next action reveal your true self.....I just did and now I'm going to turn the venison on the grill.

Amazing...

Weegie Bassa...

A Glaswegian ventriloquist visiting Aberdeen walks into a Small village and sees a local sitting on his veranda patting his dog. 

He figures he'll have a little fun, so he says to the Aberdonian 

Hi, mind if I talk to your dog?' 

Villager: 'The dog doesn't talk, you stupid weegie bassa.' 

Ventriloquist: 'Hello dog, how's it going mate?' 

Dog: 'Yeah, doin' all right.' 

Aberdonian: (look of extreme shock) 

Ventriloquist: 'Is this villager your owner?' (pointing at the Villager) 

Dog: 'Yep' 

Ventriloquist: 'How does he treat you?' 

Dog: 'Yeah, real good. He walks me twice a day, feeds me great food And takes me to the loch once a week to play.' 

Aberdonian: (look of utter disbelief) 

Ventriloquist: 'Mind if I talk to your horse?' 

Aberdonian: 'Uh, the horse doesn't talk either...I think.' 

Ventriloquist: 'Hey horse, how's it going?' 

Horse: 'Cool' 

Aberdonian: (absolutely dumbfounded) 

Ventriloquist: 'Is this your owner?' (Pointing at the villager) 

Horse: 'Yep' 

Ventriloquist: How does he treat you? 

Horse: 'Pretty good, thanks for asking. He rides me regularly, Brushes me down often and keeps me in the shed to protect me from the Elements.' 

Aberdonian: (total look of amazement) 

Ventriloquist: 'Mind if I talk to your sheep?' 

Aberdonian: (in a panic) 

'The sheep's a f*****' liar.... '

New American Standard Version disowned

I must under God renounce every attachment to the New American Standard Version.  I'm afraid I'm in trouble with the Lord... We laid the groundwork; I wrote the format; I helped interview some of the translators; I sat with the translator; I wrote the preface...  I'm in trouble; I can't refute these arguments; its [sic] wrong, terribly wrong; its [sic] frighteningly wrong; and what am I going to do about it.

When questions began to reach me at first I was quite offended...  I used to laugh with others...  However, in attempting to answer, I began to sense that something was not right about the New American Standard Version.  I can no longer ignore these criticisms I am hearing and I can't refute them...  The deletions are absolutely frightening... there are so many...  Are we so naive that we do not suspect Satanic deception in all of this?

Upon investigation, I wrote my very dear friend, Mr. Lockman, explaining that I was forced to renounce all attachment to the NASV  The product is grievous to my heart and helps to complicate matters in these already troublous times...  I don't want anything to do with it.  

[T]he finest leaders that we have today... haven't gone into it [the new version's use of a corrupted Greek text], just as I hadn't gone into it... that's how easily one can be deceived... I'm going to talk to him [Dr. George Sweeting, president of Moody Bible Institute] about these things. 

[Y]ou can say the Authorized Version [KJV] is absolutely correct.  How correct?  100% correct!  I believe the Spirit of God led the translators of the Authorized Version.  If you must stand against everyone else, stand...

Dr. Frank Losdon, Co-founder NASB, quoted in G.A. Riplinger, New Age Bible Versions, 1993.

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Simplicity

"The creaturely mind seeks refuge in simplicity.  Marxism is a prime instance:  man is the spawn of the economic system, so all that is needed is a changed system, and presto, heaven on earth!"

--George Arthur Buttrick. "The Study of the Bible,"  1 The Interpreter's Bible.  New York: Abington=Cokesbury Press, 1952.  167.

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A Request for Technical Support...

Dear Technical Support,

18 months ago, I upgraded to Girlfriend 1.0 from DrinkingMates 4.2, which I had used for years without any trouble. However, there are apparently conflicts between these two products and the only solution was to try and run Girlfriend 1.0 with the sound turned off.

To make matters worse, Girlfriend 1.0 is incompatible with several other applications, such as LadsNightOut ...3.1, Football 4.5, and Playboy 6.9. Successive versions of GirlFriend proved no better.

I tried a shareware program, Slapper 2.1, but it had many bugs and left a virus in my system, forcing me to shut down completely for several weeks. Eventually, I tried to run GirlFriend 1.2 and Girlfriend 1.0 at the same time, only to discover that when these two systems detected each other they caused severe damage to my hardware.

I eventually upgraded to Fiancée 1.0, only to discover that this product soon had to be upgraded further to Wife 1.0. While Wife 1.0 tends to use up all my available resources, it does come bundled with FreeSexPlus and Cleanhouse2005.

Shortly after this upgrade, however, I found that Wife 1.0 could be very unstable and costly to run. Any mistakes I made were automatically stored in Wife 1.0's memory and could not be deleted. They then resurfaced months later when I had forgotten about them. Wife 1.0 also has an automatic Diary, Explorer and E-mail filter, and can, without warning, launch TurboStrop and Multi-Whinge. These latter products have no Help files, and I have to try to guess what the problem is. Additional problems are that Wife 1.0 needs updating regularly, requiring ShoeShop Browser for new attachments and Hairstyle Express which needs to be reinstalled every other week. Also, when Wife 1.0 attaches itself to my Saab93 Convertible hard drive, it often crashes. Wife 1.0 also comes with an irritating pop-up called MotherInLaw, which can't be turned off.

Recently I've been tempted to install Mistress 2005, but I've been told there could be problems. A friend of mine has alerted me to the fact that if Wife 1.0 detects Mistress 2005, it tends to delete all of your Money before uninstalling itself.

Any advice would be helpful, many thanks.

Foster Care Non-Discrimination Act | chronicleofsocialchange

Foster Care Non-Discrimination Act | chronicleofsocialchange:
"In 2003, California passed the Foster Care Non-Discrimination Act that prohibits the harassment of youths on the basis of actual or perceived race, ethnic group, national origin, religion, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation or gender identification."

Okay, that's fine.  There is probably nothing wrong with that.

But, next they want forced indoctrination...

"AB 1856, a bill that would require culturally sensitive training for foster care providers on issues facing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender children and teens (LGBT).

Authored by Rep. Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) and sponsored the largest LGBT advocacy group in the state, Equality California, the bill would require caretakers to complete 40 hours of classroom instruction and best practices for providing adequate care for LGBT youths in foster care."

And they want foster care families to forgo the choice of children that they can care for...

"Some foster care agencies, Evans said, have forms where potential foster care parents can indicate if they’re not willing to care for an LGBT youth.

“Why are we accepting foster parents who say I don’t want or will not take of an LGBT [children]? How we can allow that to be?” she said."
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This is to me an exceptionally improper and unConstitutional role for the government.  Foster parents ought to be able to specify if they welcome Sightless, Hearing impaired, Handicapped, Jewish, Christian, Catholic, Moslem, White, Black, East Indian, West Indian, American Indian, French, Italian-, Asian-, Irish-, Somalian-heritage, or any other cultural or individual attribute they favor and orientation that they wish to inculcate, promulgate, and espouse.  That is their choice to minister to and support the cultural identities they value.   A law like this says, if you want to help foster children you have no right to pick and choose your legal dependents, you must accept whatever child the state assigns.

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empirical evidence that the disemployment effect of an increase in the
minimum wage may occur with a lag of one year or more, suggesting
that these case studies may understate the effect of a minimum wage
hike and even fail to detect a negative effect."

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The Nymphomaniac Convention...

A man boarded an aircraft at London 's Heathrow Airport for New York , and taking his seat as he settled in, he noticed a very beautiful woman boarding the plane. 
He realised she was heading straight toward his seat and bingo - she took the seat right beside him.

"Hello", he blurted out, "Business trip or vacation?"

She turned, smiled enchantingly and said, "Business. I'm going to the annual Nymphomaniac convention in the United States ."

He swallowed hard. Here was the most gorgeous woman he had ever seen sitting next to him, and she was going to a meeting for nymphomaniacs!

Struggling to maintain his composure, he calmly asked, "What's your business role at this convention?"

"Lecturer," she responded," I use my experience to disprove some of the popular myths about sexuality.."

"Really", he smiled, "what myths are those?"

"Well," she explained, "one popular myth is that African-American men are the most well-endowed when, in fact, it's the Native American Indian who is most likely to possess that trait. 
Another popular myth is that French men are the best lovers, when actually it is the men of Greek descent. 
We have also found that the best potential lovers in all categories are the Irish."

Suddenly the woman became uncomfortable and blushed. "I'm sorry," she said. "I really shouldn't be discussing this with you, I don't even know your name!"

"Tonto," the man said. "Tonto Papadopoulos, but my friends call me Paddy."

Holy Orders...

Mother Superior called all the nuns together and said to them, 

"I must tell you all something. We have a case of gonorrhea in the convent." 

"Thank God," said an elderly nun at the back. "I'm so tired of chardonnay."

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