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oleaginous (o-lee-AJ-uh-nuhs) adjective 1. Containing or producing oil; relating to oil. 2. Marked by excessive and false earnestness; ingratiating.[From Middle English, from French oleagineux, from Latin oleaginus (of the olive tree), from olea (the olive tree).] "The memory of the food has long faded, happily, but the creepy, oleaginous waiter with the thick French accent will always endure." Jacob Richler; Dumb Name, Fine Food: La Brasserie.ca; National Post (Canada); Apr 19, 2003. "But it could have been Max Bialystock, oleaginous impresario wheedling cash from besotted widows and trying to bilk investors in the hit New York musical 'The Producers'." Warren Hoge; A Bialystock Made to Order; The New York Times; Feb 8, 2002. Tags: drama, linguaphile
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Because I was talking to somebody today at school, and they had no clue what it meant. de·fen·es·tra·tion n. An act of throwing someone or something out of a window. [From de- + Latin fenestra, window.] Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Defenestrationn. [mythically from a traditional Czech assasination method, via SF fandom] 1. Proper karmic retribution for an incorrigible punster. "Oh, ghod, that was _awful_!" "Quick! Defenestrate him!" 2. The act of exiting a window system in order to get better response time from a full-screen program. This comes from the dictionary meaning of `defenestrate', which is to throw something out a window. 3. The act of discarding something under the assumption that it will improve matters. "I don't have any disk space left." "Well, why don't you defenestrate that 100 megs worth of old core dumps?" 4. Under a GUI, the act of dragging something out of a window (onto the screen). "Next, defenestrate the MugWump icon." 5. The act of completely removing Micro$oft Windows from a PC in favor of a better OS (typically Linux). Source: Jargon File 4.2.0Tags: linguaphile
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You know what I hate? Bad dubbing and bad voice actors. Ok, a few summers ago I became obsessed with a few anime's cowboy bebop, Trigun, and Vampire princess miyu among others. The only versions of them that I could find were the original Japanese versions, subtitled. And I loved them, and although I couldn't understand the Japanese, and had to stress to read the subs sometimes, I love the voice actors, and the way they really fit the characters. I was ecstatic to find out that cartoon network was showing some of my favorite anme's. So I switch over to watch... AND IT WAS HORRIBLE!!! The voices didn't fit at all! The voice actors' acting didn't work with what was going on with the characters, and some of the translations didn't make sense at all! ARG ! It makes me sick how much these shows are ruined like this. I dunno, maybe its just 'cus I saw it the original way first. Blah. I think I'm just going to turn it off and watch my versions. P.S. Although this is one of the reasons I'm interested in learning Japanese, it's neither the only one nor the biggest, I truly am interested in Japanese culture. The kana's and kanji are beautiful to look at and the language is beautiful to listen to as well. so neah! :p:) Tags: linguaphile, tv
Current Mood:  pissed off
What's Playing?: bad american voice acting
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Cleaned up a little in my room, started doing laundry... boy I really miss the multiple washing machines at school, it was always so much quicker there. Also started sorting through my old clothes to get rid of some and make more drawer space. I seem to collect t shirts, its weird, they just sort of multiply... :-\ Went to the bank today and cashed my last check from school, now the pressure is really on I need to find a job or I am gonna be po' for the rest of the summer. :( Working on my Japanese a little more, once you actually get past memorizing the kanas the culture behind the vocab. It's really interesting, and the sentence structure isn't really that hard (easier than English or Spanish) although there are still little things that don't make sense but all languages have those. (Except for maybe Esperanto, but I haven't looked into that yet.) Still have to work on Kanji...:: shudder :: I read somewhere that most of the time spent in school for the Japanese is spent learning kanji. And even then nobody really knows all of it (there's over 50,000 separate kanji) Tags: linguaphile, money
Current Mood:  accomplished
What's Playing?: birdies outside going tweet, tweet!
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Dave come over to visit today, that was nice, he brought back my Sega and Nintendo, yay! Then he proceeded to practically ignore me for the cat and dog. Hehe I swear that boy liked me more for my animals :p although it was nice seeing him again, I miss all my friends from school. Well in other news my cold or whatever it is, has moved out of my sinuses and is concentrating more on my nose and dripping into my throat, making me sound like 90 year old chain smoking man. Oh well, at least my head doesn't hurt like a bitch anymore. Working on the katakana, I think I'm doing pretty well; I almost have more than half of the base 45 characters memorized, and I've only been working on them for about 3-4 days. I'm thinking that once I get the base characters down it shouldn't be too hard to memorize the others. And then it's on to hiragana! No news on any of my applications yet :( but I'm not worrying, it hasn't even been a week. I've been putting in some other applications too, so at least one of them should need help eventually. :: hopes :: Tags: friends, health, linguaphile, work
Current Mood:  chipper
What's Playing?: the fan goes "wiiirrrrr!"
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yo estaba bien por un tiempo volviendo a sonreir luego anoche te vi tu mano me toco y el saludo de tu voz te hable muy bien tu sin saber que he estado llorando por tu amor llorando por tu amor luego de tu adios senti todo mi dolor sola y llorando llorando no es facil de entender que al verte otra vez yo estoy llorando yo que pense que te olvide pero es verdad, es la verdad que te quiero aun mas mucho mas que ayer dime tu que puedo hacer no me quieres ya y siempre estare llorando por tu amor llorando por tu amor tu amor se llevo todo mi corazon y quedo llorando llorando llorando llorando llorando llorando por tu amor Tags: glamour, happyears, linguaphile, tv
Current Mood:  contemplative
What's Playing?: Llorando
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syllogismsyl·lo·gism (sl-jzm) n. Logic. A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion; for example, All humans are mortal, the major premise, I am a human, the minor premise, therefore, I am mortal, the conclusion. Reasoning from the general to the specific; deduction. A subtle or specious piece of reasoning. [Middle English silogisme, from Old French, from Latin syllogismus, from Greek sullogismos, from sullogizesthai, to infer : sun-, syn- + logizesthai, to count, reckon (from logos, reason. See leg- in Indo-European Roots).] Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. syllogism\Syl"lo*gism\, n. [OE. silogisme, OF. silogime, sillogisme, F. syllogisme, L. syllogismus, Gr. syllogismo`s a reckoning all together, a reasoning, syllogism, fr. syllogi`zesqai to reckon all together, to bring at once before the mind, to infer, conclude; sy`n with, together + logi`zesqai to reckon, to conclude by reasoning. See Syn-, and Logistic, Logic.] (Logic) The regular logical form of every argument, consisting of three propositions, of which the first two are called the premises, and the last, the conclusion. The conclusion necessarily follows from the premises; so that, if these are true, the conclusion must be true, and the argument amounts to demonstration; Note: as in the following example: Every virtue is laudable; Kindness is a virtue; Therefore kindness is laudable. These propositions are denominated respectively the major premise, the minor premise, and the conclusion. Note: If the premises are not true and the syllogism is regular, the reasoning is valid, and the conclusion, whether true or false, is correctly derived. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. syllogismn : deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University Tags: linguaphile
Current Mood:  busy
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