I hear today's bad Good Word used most often as a synonym
of 'profane'
But isn't 'profane' simply the antonym of 'sacred?'
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- Sat Feb 17, 2024 12:02 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Vulgar
- Replies: 3
- Views: 255
- Mon Oct 25, 2021 4:24 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Litotes
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4657
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...
- Sun Apr 12, 2020 10:02 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Christ
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4251
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.
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.
- Mon Jun 06, 2016 8:18 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Persiflage
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5140
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...
- Sat May 31, 2014 12:54 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Zeugma
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6221
Re: Zeugma
As I was putting on my trousers today, I thought "The suspense and these suspenders are killing me."
- Mon Jun 17, 2013 8:42 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: PHILISTINE
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9127
Re: PHILISTINE
From Philistine we get the name of the region now called Palestine.
- Sun May 05, 2013 12:13 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Calvous
- Replies: 12
- Views: 14727
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!
- Tue Oct 18, 2011 2:35 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Cult
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16396