Comments by stephanieconn

  • "It seems like in both usages, "dismantle" would work pretty well. "

    But @Chained_Bear, no... in the Derridean sense, 'deconstruction' implies not a taking-apart but a proving of elements of an argument to be inherently contradictory or false.

    Similarly, as @rolig mentions, taking a house apart is dis-assembling, not deconstructing.

    June 14, 2011

  • Further examples

    Fiona Apple's song, "Better Version of me" (Extraordinary Machine, 2005)begins with the line, "The nickel dropped when I was on my way beyond the Rubicon."

    Aimee Mann's song "High on Sunday 51" (Lost in Space, 2002) contains the line, "We have crossed that Rubicon/ The ship awash our rudder gone..."

    June 10, 2009

  • 1656, from Gk. euphemismos "use of a favorable word in place of an inauspicious one," from euphemizein "speak with fair words," from eu- "good" + pheme "speaking," from phanai "speak" (see fame). In ancient Greece, the superstitious avoidance of words of ill-omen during religious ceremonies, or substitutions such as Eumenides "the Gracious Ones" for the Furies (see also Euxine). In Eng., a rhetorical term at first; broader sense of "choosing a less distasteful word or phrase than the one meant" is first attested 1793.

    refernce to the martyr, Euphemia

    June 9, 2009

  • Often misused as "Tenderhooks."

    June 9, 2009

  • The compound tenterhook (1480) is "one of the hooks that holds cloth on a tenter." The figurative phrase on tenterhooks "in painful suspense" is from 1748; earlier to be on tenters (1533).

    from: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=t&p=6

    June 9, 2009

  • No, surely not? Habitus is not 'habit", it is:

    "a set of acquired patterns of thought, behavior, and taste 1. These patterns, or "dispositions," are the result of internalization of culture or objective social structures through the experience of an individual or group."

    May 14, 2008

  • uh, the latter I think.

    March 17, 2008

  • argh, thanks for catching my typo on 'multivalency'. I re-posted.

    March 17, 2008

  • arrghm yes!!! thanks

    March 17, 2008

  • whaaaa? (again)

    March 17, 2008

  • John

    is there a way to change one's username?

    If not I might delete my account and start over now before it's too late;)

    thanks!

    March 17, 2008

  • thanks for the fix, Jon!

    March 12, 2008

  • seanahan, I am with you. I didn't say I LIKED these words, or their explanations, ha ha.

    March 12, 2008

  • ahhhhhh!

    "argumentative discourse"

    March 12, 2008

  • hmn.. if anyone can help out with this one that would be great

    March 12, 2008

  • hmn, I woud love to tag my words or view them as a cloud etc but those links do not work. Are they 'Future Features'?

    here is the page: http://wordie.org/lists/13114

    thanks!

    March 12, 2008

  • n) : the idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written, be it explicit or implicit; the reference to a another, separate and distinct, text within a text

    March 12, 2008

  • wha? oh MAN.....

    March 12, 2008

  • To problematize a term, writing, opinion, ideology, identity, or person is to consider the concrete or existential elements of those involved as challenges (problems) that invite the people involved to transform those situations. (Friere (1976) cited in Crotty (1998), p. 155-156)

    Problematization is a critical and pedagogical dialogue or process and may be considered demythicisation. Rather than taking the common knowledge (myth) of a situation for granted, problematization poses that knowledge as a problem, allowing new viewpoints, consciousness, reflection, hope, and action to emerge. (ibid)

    March 12, 2008