Date: Monday, February 21st, 2011
Word of the Day: malinger (muh\LING\guhr); to feign or exaggerate illness or inability to avoid work or duty
Weight: two hundred and twenty-four (224) pounds
Goal: lose one hundred (100) pounds in one (1) year duration
Pounds to lose: ninety-two (92) pounds
Waist Size: forty-three (43) inches
Days until Royal Wedding: sixty-six (66) short days Kate, they'll go by quickly, get moving!
Rowing Duration: fifty-five (55) minutes
Ah, the beginning of another work week, a work week with no mistakes in it, as Anne Shirley of "Anne of Green Gables" would say, gosh Lucy Maude Montgomery was clever.
Actually, today is Family Day and is a statutory holiday, so lets all celebrate our family, especially if it gives us a day off work!
The new season of The Amazing Race began, again, on television last night, this time the race features players of previous races who lost. I love watching this show as it travels to so many countries, and one gets to learn things on those countries that one may not have known previously. Too bad, Canadians cannot enter The Amazing Race, I would have liked to contend.
Okay, here they grow again, McDonalds will open restaurants in India, and what we know as a Big Mac will be known there as the Maharaja Mac, I kid you not!
Todd Palin is participating in the world's longest snowmobile race and Miss Sarah, his wife, is cheering him on. Todd Palin has previously won The Iron Dog race four (4) times, good luck Todd, even though I'm not Republican!
I came across a H. L. Mencken quote this morning which I want to share with you as I think you will enjoy it as much as I, it is: A puritan is a person who is haunted by the fear that someone somewhere is having fun!!!!!!
Will Jane Fonda ever get stopped being called "Hanoi Jane?" It seems a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) source passed information to Mountie spies about talks between Tommy Douglas and actress Miss Jane Fonda on efforts to stop the Vietnam war Can you imagine having any talk you might have had with anyone being put in the news? Gosh, come on everybody, lets all move on!
I like Jane Fonda and certainly do not think she deserves to be called a dried up old skank, which is what a media source has referred to her as, please remember what we were told as children, "if you can't say something nice about someone, don't say anything at all!" I just know my saying this is going to come back and haunt me!
I'm not sure if I've already published the following on abbreviations, however, as I am not feeling terribly clever this morning, I am publishing them for your edification, perhaps, again.
Abbreviations deriving from Latin terms and phrases can be troublesome for we non-Latin speakers. Here’s the long and short of the most common short forms adopted into English from the classical language:
1. e.g.
The abbreviation of exempli gratia (“for example”) is not only often left bereft of its periods (or styled eg.), it’s also frequently confused for a similar abbreviation you’ll find below. Use e.g. (followed by a comma) to signal sample examples.
2. etc.
The sloppily formed abbreviation of et cetera (“and so forth”) is often misspelled ect., perhaps because we’re accustomed to words in which c precedes t, but not vice versa. (Curiously, Merriam-Webster spells out etcetera as such as a noun, but at the end of an incomplete list, retain the two-word form, or translate it.) A comma should precede it.
Refrain from using etc. in an e.g. list; the abbreviations are essentially redundant, and note that etc. is also redundant in a phrase that includes including.
3. et al.
The abbreviation of et alia (“and others”), used almost exclusively to substitute for the names of all but the primary author in a reference to a multi author publication or article but occasionally applied in other contexts, should have no period after et, because that word in particular is not an abbreviation.
Also, unlike as in the case of etc., refrain from preceding it with a comma, presumably because only one name precedes it. Fun fact: We use a form of the second word in this term, alias, to mean “otherwise known as” (adverb) or “an assumed name” (noun).
4. i.e.
The abbreviation of id est (“that is”) is, like e.g., is frequently erroneously styled without periods (or as ie.). It, followed by a comma, precedes a clarification, as opposed to examples, which e.g. serves to introduce.
5. fl.
The abbreviation of flourit (“flourished”) is used in association with a reference to a person’s heyday, often in lieu of a range of years denoting the person’s life span.
6. N.B.
The abbreviation for nota bene (“note well”), easily replaced by the imperative note, is usually styled with uppercase letters and followed by a colon.
7. per cent.
The British English abbreviation of per centum (“for each one hundred”) is now often (and in the United States always) spelled percent, as one word and without the period.
8. re
The abbreviation, short for in re (“in the matter of”) and often followed by a colon, is often assumed to be an abbreviation for reply, especially in email message headers.
9. viz.
The abbreviation of videlicet (“namely”), unlike e.g., precedes an appositive list, one preceded by a reference to a class that the list completely constitutes: “Each symbol represents one of the four elements, viz. earth, air, fire, and water.” Note the absence of a following comma.
10. vs.
The abbreviation of versus (“against”) is further abbreviated to v. in legal usage. Otherwise, the word is usually spelled out except in informal writing or in a jocular play on names of boxing or wrestling matches or titles of schlocky science fiction movies. (“In this title bout of Greed vs. Honesty, the underdog never stood a chance.”)
Have a great, safe, day!
Topics coming soon:
Art
Politics
Cartoons
Cover of Madonna
Word of the Day: malinger (muh\LING\guhr); to feign or exaggerate illness or inability to avoid work or duty
Weight: two hundred and twenty-four (224) pounds
Goal: lose one hundred (100) pounds in one (1) year duration
Pounds to lose: ninety-two (92) pounds
Waist Size: forty-three (43) inches
Days until Royal Wedding: sixty-six (66) short days Kate, they'll go by quickly, get moving!
Rowing Duration: fifty-five (55) minutes
Ah, the beginning of another work week, a work week with no mistakes in it, as Anne Shirley of "Anne of Green Gables" would say, gosh Lucy Maude Montgomery was clever.
Actually, today is Family Day and is a statutory holiday, so lets all celebrate our family, especially if it gives us a day off work!
The new season of The Amazing Race began, again, on television last night, this time the race features players of previous races who lost. I love watching this show as it travels to so many countries, and one gets to learn things on those countries that one may not have known previously. Too bad, Canadians cannot enter The Amazing Race, I would have liked to contend.
Okay, here they grow again, McDonalds will open restaurants in India, and what we know as a Big Mac will be known there as the Maharaja Mac, I kid you not!
Todd Palin is participating in the world's longest snowmobile race and Miss Sarah, his wife, is cheering him on. Todd Palin has previously won The Iron Dog race four (4) times, good luck Todd, even though I'm not Republican!
I came across a H. L. Mencken quote this morning which I want to share with you as I think you will enjoy it as much as I, it is: A puritan is a person who is haunted by the fear that someone somewhere is having fun!!!!!!
Will Jane Fonda ever get stopped being called "Hanoi Jane?" It seems a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) source passed information to Mountie spies about talks between Tommy Douglas and actress Miss Jane Fonda on efforts to stop the Vietnam war Can you imagine having any talk you might have had with anyone being put in the news? Gosh, come on everybody, lets all move on!
I like Jane Fonda and certainly do not think she deserves to be called a dried up old skank, which is what a media source has referred to her as, please remember what we were told as children, "if you can't say something nice about someone, don't say anything at all!" I just know my saying this is going to come back and haunt me!
I'm not sure if I've already published the following on abbreviations, however, as I am not feeling terribly clever this morning, I am publishing them for your edification, perhaps, again.
Abbreviations deriving from Latin terms and phrases can be troublesome for we non-Latin speakers. Here’s the long and short of the most common short forms adopted into English from the classical language:
1. e.g.
The abbreviation of exempli gratia (“for example”) is not only often left bereft of its periods (or styled eg.), it’s also frequently confused for a similar abbreviation you’ll find below. Use e.g. (followed by a comma) to signal sample examples.
2. etc.
The sloppily formed abbreviation of et cetera (“and so forth”) is often misspelled ect., perhaps because we’re accustomed to words in which c precedes t, but not vice versa. (Curiously, Merriam-Webster spells out etcetera as such as a noun, but at the end of an incomplete list, retain the two-word form, or translate it.) A comma should precede it.
Refrain from using etc. in an e.g. list; the abbreviations are essentially redundant, and note that etc. is also redundant in a phrase that includes including.
3. et al.
The abbreviation of et alia (“and others”), used almost exclusively to substitute for the names of all but the primary author in a reference to a multi author publication or article but occasionally applied in other contexts, should have no period after et, because that word in particular is not an abbreviation.
Also, unlike as in the case of etc., refrain from preceding it with a comma, presumably because only one name precedes it. Fun fact: We use a form of the second word in this term, alias, to mean “otherwise known as” (adverb) or “an assumed name” (noun).
4. i.e.
The abbreviation of id est (“that is”) is, like e.g., is frequently erroneously styled without periods (or as ie.). It, followed by a comma, precedes a clarification, as opposed to examples, which e.g. serves to introduce.
5. fl.
The abbreviation of flourit (“flourished”) is used in association with a reference to a person’s heyday, often in lieu of a range of years denoting the person’s life span.
6. N.B.
The abbreviation for nota bene (“note well”), easily replaced by the imperative note, is usually styled with uppercase letters and followed by a colon.
7. per cent.
The British English abbreviation of per centum (“for each one hundred”) is now often (and in the United States always) spelled percent, as one word and without the period.
8. re
The abbreviation, short for in re (“in the matter of”) and often followed by a colon, is often assumed to be an abbreviation for reply, especially in email message headers.
9. viz.
The abbreviation of videlicet (“namely”), unlike e.g., precedes an appositive list, one preceded by a reference to a class that the list completely constitutes: “Each symbol represents one of the four elements, viz. earth, air, fire, and water.” Note the absence of a following comma.
10. vs.
The abbreviation of versus (“against”) is further abbreviated to v. in legal usage. Otherwise, the word is usually spelled out except in informal writing or in a jocular play on names of boxing or wrestling matches or titles of schlocky science fiction movies. (“In this title bout of Greed vs. Honesty, the underdog never stood a chance.”)
Have a great, safe, day!
Topics coming soon:
Art
Politics
Cartoons
Cover of Madonna
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