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by jisner2
Sat Feb 17, 2024 12:02 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Vulgar
Replies: 3
Views: 184

Re: Vulgar

I hear today's bad Good Word used most often as a synonym
of 'profane'


But isn't 'profane' simply the antonym of 'sacred?'
by jisner2
Mon Oct 25, 2021 4:24 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Litotes
Replies: 7
Views: 4618

Re: Litotes

Until reading today's Good Word, I thought that litotes was the antonym of hyperbole: understatement, as opposed to overstatement. But today I learned today that litotes is double negation. But isn't double negation simply one kind of understatement? If so, is it seems like there should be a more ge...
by jisner2
Sun Apr 12, 2020 10:02 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Christ
Replies: 2
Views: 4233

Re: Christ

Everyone agrees that Christ is the source of the Christian doctrine that has survived until this day.

Everyone certainly does not agree with this. Christianity is a doctrine ABOUT Christ. It is not the doctrine OF Christ. Scholars agree that Paul is the source of Christianity.
by jisner2
Mon Jun 06, 2016 8:18 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Persiflage
Replies: 3
Views: 5131

Re: Persiflage

'Siffler' is the descendant of Latin sibilare "to whistle, hiss", about which we know almost nothing. Could it be that sibilare is related to the Greek Sibyl of Cumae who SIBILATED or WHISPERed the will of gods? Or could it even be from the Hebrew shibbólet (שִׁבֹּלֶת), which occurs in th...
by jisner2
Sat May 31, 2014 12:54 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Zeugma
Replies: 4
Views: 6153

Re: Zeugma

As I was putting on my trousers today, I thought "The suspense and these suspenders are killing me."
by jisner2
Mon Jun 17, 2013 8:42 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: PHILISTINE
Replies: 7
Views: 9014

Re: PHILISTINE

From Philistine we get the name of the region now called Palestine.
by jisner2
Sun May 05, 2013 12:13 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Calvous
Replies: 12
Views: 14481

Re: Calvous

The traditional place of Jesus' crucifixion is "Golgotha," from the Aramaic meaning "place of the skull." The English New Testament translates it as Calvary. Thanks to today's Good Word we know why!
by jisner2
Tue Oct 18, 2011 2:35 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Cult
Replies: 14
Views: 16322

Early Christianity was considered a cult by both Jews and Romans; Islam was long considered a cult by medieval Christians; and, of course, many Protestant groups, from the Baptists to the Quakers, were considered cults by other Christians. The distinction between "cult" and "religion&...

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