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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 Re: A will o' the wisp... Alex Williams #177326 06/11/08 07:46 PM Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 557 Dallas, TX M Myridon addict Myridon addict M Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 557 Dallas, TX My Merriam-Webster says audacity is a synonym of temerity. My problem with temirity that I confuse it with timorousness which is the opposite - thankfully there's no timority or we'd really be in trouble. - I'll admit to having problems with Dylan McDermott and Dermot Mulroney, also Sinclair Lewis and Upton Sinclair. Last edited by Myridon; 06/11/08 07:48 PM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A will o' the wisp... morphememedley #177328 06/11/08 11:03 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803  Originally Posted By: morphememedley I'm glad someone has the temerity to use gay to have a meaning other than the one currently most common. We should not lose perfectly good definitions to trends. Mama knows the poor language is nowhere near robust enough to handle these corruptions. There could be no possible other word to fill the gap left by the destruction of gay. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A will o' the wisp... Faldage #177329 06/12/08 12:57 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass don we now our gay apparel.. fa la la.. -ron o. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A will o' the wisp... Myridon #177330 06/12/08 02:41 AM Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 155 M morphememedley member morphememedley member M Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 155 My problem with temirity that I confuse it with timorousness which is the opposite … I only keep the difference straight by remembering “timorous beastie”. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A will o' the wisp... Faldage #177331 06/12/08 03:14 AM Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 155 M morphememedley member morphememedley member M Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 155 I do not categorically object to an old word's receiving another meaning. I'm sure that I unwittingly as well as wittingly participate in meaning-adding. Near-supersession of older meanings can deserve objection. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A will o' the wisp... morphememedley #177334 06/12/08 10:55 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803  Originally Posted By: morphememedley Near-supersession of older meanings can deserve objection. That's nice. Or should I say egregious? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A will o' the wisp... morphememedley #177336 06/12/08 11:47 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania The Pook old hand The Pook old hand Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania or perhaps even objectation? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A will o' the wisp... Myridon #177339 06/12/08 12:56 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory A Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Alex Williams Pooh-Bah A Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory  Originally Posted By: Myridon My Merriam-Webster says audacity is a synonym of temerity. My problem with temirity that I confuse it with timorousness which is the opposite - thankfully there's no timority or we'd really be in trouble. - I'll admit to having problems with Dylan McDermott and Dermot Mulroney, also Sinclair Lewis and Upton Sinclair. I disagree that M-W is identifying audacity as an absolute synonym. I saw the link you are referring to ("synonyms see TEMERITY"), but ultimately the definitions are such that temerity lacks any sense whatsoever of praiseworthiness. Audacity on the other hand, is more flexible and can be used to describe acts of daring without necessarily adding an element of censure as temerity does. One definition of audacity is akin to temerity ("b: bold or arrogant disregard of normal restraints <had the audacity to defy his boss>") but another is not ("a: intrepid boldness"). The distinction brings to mind Dead Poets Society, in which the teacher played by Robin Williams urges his students to "suck the marrow out of life," but later has to point out that he didn't intend for them to choke on the bone. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A will o' the wisp... Faldage #177340 06/12/08 01:29 PM Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 155 M morphememedley member morphememedley member M Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 155 You'll have to decide what you should say, determinism notwithstanding. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A will o' the wisp... morphememedley #177342 06/12/08 02:06 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh gay From the century before last:  Quote: Mrs Reppingall, a lodging-house keeper in Broughton Street, deponed No. 134. to having heard the pursuer on various occasions suggest to his wife "to go and keep a gay house." There was other evidence to a similar effect. The proof of the adultery alleged against the defender was mainly confined to the evidence of certain detectives and frequenters of brothels, the import of which appears sufficiently in the opinions of the Judges in the Inner-House. (Here and there). 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