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A.Word.A.Day--demotic Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio demotic (di-MOT-ik) adjective 1. Of or relating to the common people; popular. 2. Of, relating to, or written in the simplified form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing. 3. Demotic. Of or relating to a form of modern Greek based on colloquial use. [Greek demotikos, from demotes, a commoner, from demos, people.] "His (Francesco Zolla) admirers responded to the epic component, rare in his time: epic in its demotic rhetoric, in its commonplaces, in its preference for collective scenes and tidal movements, epic finally in the excitement it provoked among the rising or aspiring lower classes-- teachers, artisans, clients of popular libraries, buyers of cheap popular editions." Weber, Eugen, Zola: A Life (book reviews), The New Republic, 31 Jul 1995. X-Bonus Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. -Chuang-tzu (B.C. 350)

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