Nerd Word of the Day: Lexadaisical

First, good job Evan for suggesting that word.
Computers sure make it way too easy to be
lexadaisical in one way, but certainly make it
a lot faster to find and look at information.

Would all of those abbreviations be lexadaisical?
Ur, LOL, BFF, etc. Oh yeah, etc. that’s a good one.
I’ll use that when I can’t think of more to say, etc. :-)

More of a pronunciation issue than spelling but hearing “nook-u-lar” in place of nuclear makes my blood boil.

Love the new word lexidaisical, though.

“Symbology”

From the cult classic movie “Boondock Saints”

i know a few, but i can’t tell.

No, I can’t think of any, its just to much trouble. Your such a mean teacher making us think all the tyme. :razz:

viagra falls

Oh, yeah, the your / you’re thing gets under my skin often when I’m reading. And the plural vs posessive vs posessive plural thing, too. Now this one may be a local colloquialism, but if someone, when speaking, uses “ideal” instead of “idea”, it stands my hair on end. I hear that one fairly frequently. I can speak informally as well as formally, but Jeez La-Weez there has to be a few parameters…..

ecosaveology

I had a couple of beers today at the restaurant: Killian’s Irish Red. And mom let me drink in front of her at the table! she had on one of her silly $3.oo hats again. It looked like something from a black cap worn by some men in the king’s court in the middle ages! She is so funny at times!

hyper-nation…dem for them or carbon credits and buying farts—the spoiled being spoiled like an automatic dog—dog-matic poll-loostion…

now back to my straw house and still living off the lard…bricks are heavy(in)…Robert Bradley singing, Lackawanna Blues monologue.

….h 0 t 4 w 0 r d s…[geeken'erd] :lol:

‘The sick and indigent roomkeepers Society’ was usually called ‘the thick and ignorant’, or ‘the sick and indignant’ society by most people where I grew up. ;-) Don’t know if this qualifies.

Would Archie Bunker from “All in the Family” be an example of this? one two

Good suggestion Evan! I work my tail off to try and not be to lexadaisical with my comments.

I get annoyed with students improperly using your instead of you’re, and its instead of it’s. Oh the list I can make!

The two words I’m still struggling with is Where and Were. PK I think it was that suggested a little memory aid for me but still get confused. One of my tags is just not sticking well.

What’s a tag? They are little memory aids I use to memorize data. I have a very hard time memorizing things. So I tag it with a story or more often images. It works rather well for I can memorize a grocery list of about 50 items. Though it takes time and I have to make the tags very complex and creative. It wears me out at the end of the day. I think its a good brain work out and even boost your IQ.

People who confuse affect and effect are quite a numerous and boring bunch indeed.

ZZZzzzzzz…

I’ll give you three! “Febuary,” “cadillac converter,” and “infer ” (when the speaker means ‘imply’). The first two are lazy pronunciation by non-readers, the last a usage mistake.

I totally hear ya cap’n. I myself get really annoyed with students improperly using pneumosillivolnosis instead of pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico­volcanoconiosis. Yah, damnity. Who do these illiterate bastards think they are, eh?

BTW cap’n, you say you can memorize more or less 50 tags? A couple more and you can get into poker! A couple fourtenight more and you could get into tarot!! WOW! It could be a big fat juicy $ideline for ya I tell ya. WOW!! Think about it!

Dang, folks, get the joke! Your not thinking before you post.

Great word, Evan.

Wow, good memory Captain.
Yes, it was I that referred you to a way to
remember when to use where versus were.

Notice that there is one letter difference
between the two words, which is the letter “h”.

The “h” in where spells out the
memory key tag for you which is “here”.
Here is a location as I am standing here
as opposed to there.

Were is the past tense of the verb “to be”.
I was hungry.
You were hungry.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/to_be.htm

I know, that was soooo funny.
There is another error up in that one sentence,
the use of “than” instead of “then”.

By the way, you know who the geni.us is? Right?
If you really want to know, COPY that bolded word
including the period and PASTE it into your browser
address bar and hit enter. Ta Da, Genius! :grin:

thats what she said… :lol: …fails=falls…Strange Medical Mysteries (Mutter Museum)…fragile-tissue… :smile: how’ya- :lol: B

Well more than that. Take something like “egg” now make a sentence out of it. Make sure the sentence is ludicrous, even to the point it has little in common to the next item on your grocery list. Now make a sentence for all 50 items. The list becomes a 500 to 1,000 words you have to memorize. Those 1,000 words are my tags.

I add these word tags to many things to my every day life. I do this all day long. When most people are walking their brains though life I’m running. Also at the same time I’m thinking about 3 to 5 things at once. Even as I type this, Im watching a tv show, listening to the Marine VHF radio, thinking about some boat stuff, and wondering how Im going to shut my mind down tonight so I can get some sleep. Many times I just have a beer but I don’t like to drink.

I don’t even know how to play poker. I think its a boring game. Some people suggested I should learn because I would be good at the mind games. Apparently that’s a key part of playing. Again, booooorrrrring.

Hey Captain,
if you want to shut your brain down w/o alcohol, try the following.
Take a salt shaker and do one quick shake of salt on to a teaspon.
It should look like a light snowfall where you can see the teaspoon amongst the sprinkles of salt. Now, dip the tip of your tongue into the salt in the teaspoon and let the salt dissolve. You don’t need to pick up much salt. Just maybe one to two hundred or so crystals.
Do this just before going to sleep. You’ll be out in 15 minutes.

Let me know how it works for you.
You can google info about the electrical brain phenomena using keywords like, “salt on tongue”.
Happy dreams.

See, your brain is probably geared just like a cap’n Crunch whistle. Blow it at the right frequency and it’ll run like hell with its electrified neurons shooting in all directions at the same time, establishing synaptic connections here and there, and you’ll start talking and typing anything anywhere like crazy without much thinking about it. Wait. The words coming out of my fingertips make no sense will you say. But let me explain myself.

Believe it or not, most of us poor men can do only one thing at a time. Like drink a beer. Or have a rest. We give it all we’ve got, we focus all our neurons and synapses on a single task at hand and it suckles all of our brainy energy, then we need to have a lunch. Everybody being able to do more than that is probably a super-genius I’d say.

I say he should count sheeps. But not the 2600th one if he reaches it without falling asleep, ‘cuz this one has a very bad reputation.

It drives my crazy when people say acrost the street. I just want to sew their lips shut! :x

maid it in hear soes i maize well post sumthin lexadasical for yawl

When I read Marina’s post, ["I was like ... Oh my God!"]
Err … excuse me, you resembled what?
That meaningless expression really [gets my goat].
I’ve even heard Marina use it in one of her interviews.

ITS HARD TO FOLLOW THE NEWS, WHEN IM LOOKING AT YOU

sounds like “Valley” talk to me. ;-)

I got the ‘Where’ tag down very well. ‘Were’ tag still not working for me. I keep forgetting the “to be”.

“I’m tired turning into a ‘Werewolf’ every night. I wonder what I would be like ‘To Be’ human again.”

Ok I’ll try that tag. I’m sure this will stick. You know I can talk like the radio star Wolf man Jack. I got it down pretty well.

I just learned something. Not everyone can remember back to when they were 5 years old. I can remember it like it was last month. I’ve tried very hard to selectively remove much of my memories. My sister like to remind me of the horrors I went though. Damn her! LOL

;-) Hoewdown Throwdown / ZigZag Miley Cyrus Hannah Montana The movie With lyrics on screen HQ :grin:

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so here’s my opinion.

this is nothing to do with the lexicon.
it’s nothing to do with grammar.

language — this should be everyone’s daily mantra — is not based on letters, it’s based on sounds.
in cases like your / you’re or except / accept, we’re talking about homophones:

Words that sound alike but not with the same meaning.

they’re mostly spelled differently.

using your instead of you’re is merely a spelling mistake and, therefore, not a grammatical error. (grammar != spelling.)

here’s a lexical mistake i made recently:
“… yeah, but she’s not that old anymore. errr … i mean young, sorry.”
this happens because along with the target word, other words are activated in the lexicon as well (yes. the lexicon doesn’t work like a fucking dictionary; surprise, surprise.).
also, when slips of the tongue occur, the target word and its substitute belong to the same word class; an adjective is replaced with an adjective, a noun with a noun, and so forth.

the lexicon is about meaning and sounds, not about spelling.

goddamnit.
the fuck is buzzword at?

that so crazi i cood dye

Hey äläx,
I like your opinion as you broke down the relevant elements with respect to the context of this post, which is lexadaisical, a whimiscal mashup of group of letters to which a new meaning has been attached.

From a linguistics point of view, the lexicon, amongst other things, is the total inventory of morphemes in a given language.

From a non-linguistics point of view, the word lexicon is also defined as a wordbook or dictionary. Generically, a lexicon is an inventory or a record.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lexicon
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/LEXICON

So, the word lexicon is a homophone where there are two words with the same spelling and pronunciation, but having a different meaning.

In the end, when someone has to put words onto paper, correct spelling, one of the prescriptive elements of orthography is important in order to communicate effectively.

So, even though what you say makes sense from language point of view as you stated, the average person doesn’t know that and that person is mainly concerned with the meaning and spelling of a word, which of course gets into a different part of linguistics such as neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics and so on.

So, in the practical world, spelling is important and many people either did not learn the rules, made up their own or forgot the prescriptive rules. (We’re not going there again – LOL)

äläx is right; and I’m sure you–the world’s brightest philologist–know the truth here: every ‘language’ starts out as a “[creole]” (the “slaves’” adaptation of the “masters’” language)

Alex you hit the nail on the head. These are the things that really bother me about the English language. As you seen below, I’m struggling with ‘where’ and ‘were’. It’s one damn letter. Its and It’s driving me crazy. I wish some linguists would stand up and fix this language. Well I’ve said that before, but I don’t see any takers.

No one can be expected to follow the rules if there are none. Well there used to be rules. There are so many exceptions to the rules, it make them out dated and useless. If a new word is created, who sets the rules how its to be used? Don’t get me wrong, I like the English language for its ability to take on new words, but there needed to be an agreed rule on how they are to be used or how its to be spelled.

I really like the USCG rules of navigation. When you first read them, they are confusing as hell. That’s because they are written very dry to fit legal speak. You know lawyers will take one little word and beat you in the face with it. Once you get to understand the rule it becomes very clear. Fortunately there are books our there that put it all in normal English. Even a 12 year old can understand them. There is only one exception to the rules. Rule #2 says you can depart from the rules if it means to avoid a collision. It’s up to the skippers discretion. If there is a collision then you can be brought up on charges for not following rule #1 or rule #2 or even #3. There are no ifs, ands, or butts. Though it does offer you the flexibility to make last minute changes to fit the situation at hand.

I find it interesting that all the rules I need to know on driving a boat will fit in one hand. Life saving rules. Yet in English, I would need something the size of war and peace.

I guess Im more annoyed with the people who make the English language rules than the people who don’t follow the ones that are there. If I see a spelling mistake, I put more blame on the people who set the rule in the first place. I just wish some linguists would step up to the plate and fix this once and for all.

Oh one more thing it’s much easier to speak English that it is to write it. Apparently one is less bound to the rules when speaking but are bound when writing. This which adds to the confusion.

About Buzzword. He’s busy with some school and work stuff. Exciting things are hopefully going to happen for him. He’s going to be out of the office for a bit.

I’m pretty sure that is false. I can spot that fake a million miles away. ;-) If it were so, I would pass out from eating as much potato chips as I do. Secondly I sometimes Beer is just not enough. Maybe I should try sex. That should keep…. no wait.. Naw that wont work either. I put much thought into that too. I get very creative and adventurous. I guess just a hard whack across the forehead with a solid oak 2 by 4 is my only hope. :|

Wizzard – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
:smile: [wisdom]{/|\} :cool: imogen heap :cool:

You watch to much news without grains of salt. 2600 club doesn’t have a bad reputation. No more than jet planes crashing. Yes sometimes they do crash but not to the level of car crashes that kill hundreds per day but you don’t see it in the news as often. The news is all about shock and awe to sell commercials so the news media can by their mansions.

If you were a black hat hacker and you were seen with a 2600 mag under your arm, you would be laugh at. It’s like someone reading Star magazine vs Scientific American. A scientist would be laugh at reading Star.

Well said. ;-)

As aways :smile: smart work :lol: Monkeys Recognize Their Pals in Photos…In the study, the monkeys looked at four photos, including one of a monkey they knew. They also looked at another four monkey photos, including one of a monkey they didn’t know. :lol:

If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.” – Dan Quayle

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Now I know you’ve gone completely “mad” and I’m lovin’ it! I just can’t decide which video is the group of friends you hang around with. Maybe both! This one puts me in the mood.

All bRains UnitE…[ :oops: ]
[Glossolalia] is commonly called “speaking in tongues”…’Glossolalia’ is constructed from the Greek word γλωσσολαλιά, itself is a compound of the words γλῶσσα (glossa, meaning “tongue” or “language”) and λαλεῖν (lalein, “to talk”). The term ‘speaking in tongues’ is a translation of these two components of the same word. The Greek expression (in various forms) appears in the New Testament in the books of Acts and 1 Corinthians….got any gum?

Dear Marina,
It;s easy for people to be sloppy with their speech. It’s excusable for a foreign person to do this, because they weren’t trained to use English grammar and pronunciation. Hence they speak with an “accent” (French, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Mexican, etc.)
An example is a quote from Ricky Ricardo, “Lucy, you got some ‘splainin’ to do.”
A German student pronounced the ancient Greek God, Zeus, as “Zoice” (as if it rhymed with Deutsch).
We who grew up here, went to school, and consistently heard and saw US radio and television, don’t have such excuses. We should know better, but we often hear sloppy speech:
“Morning” instead of saying “Good Morning.”
“You Spika da English?” to foreigners, instead of “Do you speak English?”
“Je-et?” instead of “Did you eat?”
“Witchy Vun you want?” instead of “Which one do you want?”
So don’t be embarassed about your speech. We can make enough errors on our own. :razz:
Seesixcm6

This reply is to your comment # says: 13.2.1.1.2
starting with, “I’m pretty sure that is false.”

The intake of salt itself does not hammer you to sleep like alcohol does. Salt when placed on the tongue and allowed to dissolve is what alters the electrical stimulus to the brain, making way for you to get to sleep. Salt is a facilitator.

With potato chips, there is much less salt allowed to come in contact with the tongue in the first place, which is washed away by any beverages. Also, even if there was sufficient salt to stay on the tongue for 15 minutest, any stimulus such as bright lights, TV and so on are distractions that will keep you awake. Salt does not force you to sleep. It facilitates it when you are ready to sleep. I use this safe method on occasion and it works great. I don’t use it every night.

The reason that I recommend this technique is because it can train your body to accept sleep as opposed to whacking it to sleep with alcohol.

Here are some links that will surprise you and I bet you didn’t know some of this stuff about salt and how important it is to the body.

A short posting in the procedure. I forgot to mention to drink a glass of water beforehand. The technique comes from a book “Your Body’s Many Cries For Water” written by an MD
http://www.sleepnet.com/insomnia3/messages/200.html

Some Hidden Miracles of Sea Salt.
I knew some of the benefits of salt in the article, but not most of them. Very interesting.

A blog about Salt and its benefits
In this blog, the author focuses on “Whole Salt”. Even though I might agree with what he says, table salt is just as effective when using it to help you fall asleep.

I’ve seen….I suppose it’s more appropriate to use the term “witnessed” glossolalia. I was told it was happening by a member, and I drove past the church, with it’s front doors swung wide open, and people were blabbbering and acting crazy. It was a quaint little church in Ben Lomand, California, where they had an independent congregation that went nuts once a week during church services, talking in tongues, allegedly straight to the big honcho in the sky. The dude with the mightiest ronny in the Universe, God, no other. Which is cool, but their parade got rained on when the pastor of the church ran off with one of the member’s wife and the entire contents of the church funds. Was that a message from God? You decide.

That may work for some people, but in my case it will not. My mind never shuts down. Sometimes I awake in the middle of the night with a new idea or a solution to a problem. Schedules keep me awake. I hate missing an appointment because I over slept. Schedules, time clocks, calendars, all parts that keep me awake. Hence is why I plan to buy a nice offshore capable sailing yacht and sail around the world. I’ll be on Island time and I’ll be able to sleep much better. I’ll be come more productive when I have no schedule but my own.

I did discover one thing. I find it very easy to sleep during the day. When it’s dark out I tend to wake up a bit. Though to much darkness causes many other problems, i.e. S.A.D. and issues from the lack of Vitamin D.

I’m really beginning to like this term ‘Lexadaisical’ So in honor of this new word. I’m going to go all out and be very lazy in my writing.

well i bettr start now I really dont car if i evver tipe a perfect work ever agan. im just going to spue out words and not wory a-bout a darn thing. wow this is harder than i hought it wood bee
i acutlay havf to think a-bout it! oh this is nutz.

Laughing Out Loud!

:lol: Is Jack a [character]? :?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters :razz: A Chinese character, also known as a Han character (simplified Chinese: 汉字; traditional Chinese: 漢字; pinyin: Hànzì), is a logogram used in writing Chinese (hanzi), Japanese (kanji), less frequently Korean (hanja), and formerly Vietnamese (hán tự), and other languages. Chinese characters are also known as sinographs, and the Chinese writing system as sinography.

In the Chinese writing system, the characters are morphosyllabic, each usually corresponding to a spoken syllable with a basic meaning. However, although Chinese words may be formed by characters with basic meanings, a majority of words in Mandarin Chinese require two or more characters to write (thus are poly-syllabic) but have meaning that is distinct from the characters they are made from….infoo0rmation from —
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character :???:

Leonard, again you make no sense to me. :roll:

Today’s Quote

* “If you can’t convince them, confuse them.” – Harry S Truman
:lol:

LOL, Yeah! I like that. :mrgreen:

Leonard makes lots of sense to me. But then again, I have attention deficit disorder. :lol:

Wee kood al riet in simpl Inglish, in which everee wrd iz riten fonetikalee. :razz:

Милая Марина,

Croeso / You’re welcome!

Your devoted fan,
Evan

Now that makes perfect sense.

I do to but I don’t understand he’s saying Jack is character. What does my name have to do with Chinese? I know Chinese form of Karate. It’s called Kempo, and it’s from the Shaolin Temple. Also my middle name is a common Chinese name. But that’s about it. Ok I eat with chop stick way to much, I’m not Chinese. I’m a black kid that was baptized in chlorine bleach water. Yo man, yos nose whata jiven aboot man?

Captain Jack, it’s called “free association.” Leonard called you a “character,” meaning an eccentric, but immediately thought of “character,” how we describe Chinese writing, and took off on that tangent.

Interesting, too, that the Japanese kanji derives from the Chinese word hanzi. Did you know that “Korea” comes from the Japanese attempt to pronounce the Chinese kao li, meaning “high and beautiful”? (Koreans call their country Hanguk. That’s what my [taekwondo] instructor told me.)

See? I’m doing a “leonard” by free-associating. :razz:

Oh I call that going off into an tangent. I do the same thing all the time. I do that when people stop taking and just stare at each other like cows. Not even doing a thing, just staring. I guess it’s what lazy people do. Just stare. I have things to do, places to go, and people to do. :lol:

I never really explored Taekwondo before. I did learn a bit of Shim pru ryn. Not sure if I spelled that right. I really missed practicing karate. I seem to be good at it. One time both schools competed in some different events. I wasn’t a black belt yet, but I learned a kata that only black belts learned. After sever months of practice I use that kata. I won the trophy for best kata between both schools and against black belts even. I was shocked!
Have you had any cool experiences in karate?

Bad pronunciation can sometimes easily mislead you, even if you are a master of spelling :grin:

She is like, oh my God, so totally gettin’ californicated, fer shur. That’s awesome! Like, oh my God, she’s so totally cute when she’s talking, you know what, that way :grin:

[importance] :lol: [Central] to what you are…how do you share?

Captain Jack says: 25
December 4, 2009 at 10:02 pm
I’m really beginning to like this term ‘Lexadaisical’ So in honor of this new word. I’m going to go all out and be very lazy in my writing.

well i bettr start now I really dont car if i evver tipe a perfect work ever agan. im just going to spue out words and not wory a-bout a darn thing. wow this is harder than i hought it wood bee
i acutlay havf to think a-bout it! oh this is nutz.

…I know sense!!!…soul sorry 4 U

Thank You…and BLESS your SOUL…The Carpenters – Top Of The World
…have a great day Evan :cool:

Aim at heaven and you get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.
C S Lewis quote
:smile: William Pitt The Elder

Don’t talk to me about a man’s being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
William Pitt The Elder quote

Biography
British statesman, 1708 – 78
:lol:

The discrepency betwixt what is said and what is written is not as important as the discrepency between what is said or written and what is done. We should keep in mind that the slightest discrepency between what is done and what is said is enough to sow the seeds of rebellion. And history has plenty of examples of this to show us.

Baby Its Cold Outside – Margaret Whiting & Johnny Mercer…hEars to Marina and the [gang] at HFW… :cool: :arrow: :razz: THE GANGS ALL HERE Sam Cooke Ali :idea: :lol:

And history has plenty of examples of this to show us.

Under communism, man exploited man, but under capitalism, it’s the other way around.

mental is the judge :lol: I love Left-OversrIght :lol: Nearer My God To Thee – The Tones Of Joy

Interesting point of view, fglrx. :cool:

@CaptainJack

Cool experiences in karate? I fell once when doing a flying side kick, hit my head, and forgot I was divorced. After practice, I drove to my old home, walked in and sat on the couch. You should have heard the [epithets] my ex screamed at me when she and the kids returned. :o

Did you know there was a dinosaur that could talk? Thesaurus lex! :mrgreen:

Lawd have mercy

In the “real world”, both points matter.

Go Evan!

Congratulations to Marina’s countrywoman Elena Dementieva for finishing 2009 ranked #5 in the world on the WTA tour. Like Marina, she is a huge inspiration for me. (Is it something in the Russian water?)

@Evan

Wow! That must have been an experience that you’ll never forget.

I guess breaking your own nose from doing an elbow strike to an invisible man’s head doesn’t compare, but sure is funny though. :lol:

Chi Coltrane – Thunder and lightning 1973

Oooh! What a good thing I’ve got
Oooh it’s such a good thing I’ve got
I don’t think I can stand it
It’s thunder and lightning oh yeah
I tell you it’s frightening uuh
It’s thunder and lightning ooh ooh
…mercy is given :grin:

U WON…right on…WAIT 4 Me–”but, thats what broke the wagon”…something my Dad would say–a pro-free-enterpriser and [industrialist] and [individualist]

Back to the Unit Ten Summary]…thanks HOTfOR WORDS and queen Marina :-)

Herbert Hoover, “Rugged Individualism Speech” (October 22, 1928)
Herbert Hoover closed his campaign for the presidency in 1928 with this speech. It expresses the philosophy not only of Hoover, but of the Republican party during the 1920s. As you read, think about what sort of role Hoover sees for the federal government in the economic affairs of the nation. Why does Hoover favor such a role for the government? Also, think about in what sense Hooverís response to the Great Depression might be seen as an extension of the philosophy he articulates here.

I intend… to discuss some of those more fundamental principles upon which I believe the government of the United States should be conducted….

During one hundred and fifty years we have builded up a form of self government and a social system which is peculiarly our own. It differs essentially from all others in the world. It is the American system…. It is founded upon the conception that only through ordered liberty, freedom and equal opportunity to the individual will his initiative and enterprise spur on the march of progress. And in our insistence upon equality of opportunity has our system advanced beyond all the world.

During [World War I] we necessarily turned to the government to solve every difficult economic problem. The government having absorbed every energy of our people for war, there was no other solution. For the preservation of the state the Federal Government became a centralized despotism which undertook unprecedented responsibilities, assumed autocratic powers, and took over the business of citizens. To a large degree, we regimented our whole people temporally into a socialistic state. However justified in war time, if continued in peace-time it would destroy not only our American system but with it our progress and freedom as well.

When the war closed, the most vital of issues both in our own country and around the world was whether government should continue their wartime ownership and operation of many [instruments] of production and distribution. We were challenged with a… choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines ­ doctrines of paternalism and state socialism. The acceptance of these ideas would have meant the destruction of self-government through centralization… [and] the undermining of the individual initiative and enterprise through which our people have grown to unparalleled greatness.

The Republican Party [in the years after the war] resolutely turned its face away from these ideas and war practices…. When the Republican Party came into full power it went at once resolutely back to our fundamental conception of the state and the rights and responsibility of the individual. Thereby it restored confidence and hope in the American people, it freed and stimulated enterprise, it restored the government to a position as an umpire instead of a player in the economic game. For these reasons the American people have gone forward in progress….

There is [in this election]… submitted to the American people a question of fundamental principle. That is: shall we depart from the principles of our American political and economic system, upon which we have advanced beyond all the rest of the world….

I would like to state to you the effect that… [an interference] of government in business would have upon our system of self-government and our economic system. That effect would reach to the daily life of every man and woman. It would impair the very basis of liberty and freedom….

Let us first see the effect on self-government. When the Federal Government undertakes to go into commercial business it must at once set up the organization and administration of that business, and it immediately finds itself in a labyrinth…. Commercial business requires a concentration of responsibility. Our government to succeed in business would need to become in effect a despotism. There at once begins the destruction of self-government….

It is a false liberalism that interprets itself into the government operation of commercial business. Every step of bureaucratizing of the business of our country poisons the very roots of liberalism ­ that is political equality, free speech, free assembly, free press and equality of opportunity. It is not the road to more liberty, but to less liberty. Liberalism should not be striving to spread bureaucracy but striving to set bounds to it….

Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit, a force proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved. [An expansion of the governmentís role in the business world] would cramp and cripple the mental and spiritual energies of our people. It would extinguish equality and opportunity. It would dry up the spirit of liberty and progress… For a hundred and fifty years liberalism has found its true spirit in the American system, not in the European systems.

I do not wish to be misunderstood…. I am defining general policy…. I have already stated that where the government is engaged in public works for purposes of flood control, of navigation, of irrigation, of scientific research or national defense… it will at times necessarily produce power or commodities as a by-product.

Nor do I wish to be misinterpreted as believing that the United States is a free-for-all and devil-take-the-hindmost. The very essence of equality of opportunity and of American individualism is that there shall be no domination by any group or [monopoly] in this republic…. It is no system of laissez faire….

I have witnessed not only at home but abroad the many failures of government in business. I have seen its tyrannies, its injustices, its destructions of self-government, its undermining of the very instincts which carry our people forward to progress. I have witnessed the lack of advance, the lowered standards of living, the depressed spirits of people working under such a system….

And what has been the result of the American system? Our country has become the land of opportunity to those born without inheritance, not merely because of the wealth of its resources and industry but because of this freedom of initiative and enterprise. Russia has natural resources equal to ours…. But she has not had the blessings of one hundred and fifty years of our form of government and our social system.

By adherence to the principles of decentralized self-government, ordered liberty, equal opportunity, and freedom to the individual, our American experiment in human welfare has yielded a degree of well-being unparalleled in the world. It has come nearer to the abolition of poverty, to the abolition of fear of want, than humanity has ever reached before. Progress of the past seven years is proof of it….

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of [a lack of governmental] control of economic forces distinctly its own ­ our American system ­ which has carried this great experiment in human welfare farther than ever before in history…. And I again repeat that the departure from our American system… will jeopardize the very liberty and freedom of our people, and will destroy equality of opportunity not only to ourselves, but to our children….

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äläx, thanks for coming back.

I was really interested in linguistics many years ago, then I abandoned it. I’ve recently become interested in this fascinating field of knowledge again.

@leonardo
I remember the song well. Truly exciting. That was way back in the Age of Little Information. Dark times. A stretch where the free world was led by Nixon, Ford & Carter. I never knew what Chi looked like. I assumed she was a curly headed hippy chick, I don’t know why. That was a good uTube clip.

I and me. Who and whom. To, too, and two. The King James Original Bible… :roll:

You could update “[creole]” to mean ‘the “truthiness” of the Web 2.0 “etchings” (i.e. :-))-meaning-LoL-meaning-”Laugh out Loud”-meaning-’golly-gosh that would be funny’-meaning-”recent occurrence of humorousness” etc.-etc.)

teaching an ape to speak would be easier than getting people to understand these concepts.

i’m trying, man … :/

CHITTERLINGS, n. plu. The guts or bowels; sausages.
1913 DefinitionChitterlings (chitterlings)
n. pl. (?)
Chit”ter*lings
[Cf. AS. cwiþ womb, Icel. kvið, Goth. qiþus, belly, womb, stomach, G. kutteln chitterlings.] (Cookery)

1.The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for food.
:smile: ….Marina, you could “tweet-up” chicky – chitter-chat-twitter WORD…..web[home]-made [com-munications] :grin: ‘twitter-chitter_sitter or gitter_glitter-knitter :P good-day

….using the word “got” in place of “have”…we’ve got a problem…” if broken down, it means we have got a problem … why do we need the word got? Got is the past tense of get. Get means to obtain.. So why do we always use the wrong verb or include it when it’s not needed? So, the correct way would be “we have a problem”…

What’s another word for thesaurus?

Did you know there is such a thing as a lesbian dinosaur? It’s called a lickalottapus.

Texting makes people lexadaisical. They like 2 type msgs 2 u like this, and say OMG WTF.

wanker. no idea what you’re talking about.

One ‘like received’ ?

what does that mean?I can not understand that mean.
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