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WORD OF THE DAY..........courtesy of Dictionary.com
ifyoucantfixit:
obtuse \uhb-TOOS\, adjective:
1. Not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect.
2. Not sharp, acute, or pointed; blunt in form.
3. (Of a leaf, petal, etc.) rounded at the extremity.
4. Indistinctly felt or perceived, as pain or sound.
"Excuse me?" Rose says, giving me the look I deserve, given the obtuse nature of my invitation.
-- David Sosnowski, Vamped
That was always your failing. Too obtuse. Never able quite to get to the point. Or to make people realise when you have got there.
-- Paul House, Dust Before the Wind
He tried to collect his newspaper from under her while asking, “Then why did you ask me that obtuse question?”
-- Shelly Hancock, Entertaining Jonathan
Obtuse comes from the Latin word tundere which meant "to beat" and the prefix ob- meaning "against" because it referred to the process of beating metal until it was dull.
Mandy21:
That word 'obtuse' always reminds me of "The Shawshank Redemption", Janice. From the scene where the prisoner Andy DuFrain (played by Tim Robbins) has found out he might know who actually killed his wife, and framed him for the crime, and the warden, whose prison bookkeeping was being creatively managed by Andy, is not willing to lose him / set him free. Dufrain asks him, "How can you be so obtuse?" and the warden, livid, replies, "What did you just call me?" and sends him to solitary for months to think about what he's said. When the warden comes down to the hole to alert him to recent evil goings-on on the yard, and senses he is still reluctant to play the warden's game, threatens all manner of things which will occur if DuFrain refuses, and ends with, "Am I making myself clear? Or am I being obtuse?". The sinister look on the warden's face chills me to the bone every time.
ifyoucantfixit:
It always make me think of the same thing. Coincidentally? I am not sure there is such a thing as a
coincidence... That is one of my three favorite movies.. I think I have a list of movies here, that says so even..
I am glad to know that at least some of us are reading this thread..I know a couple of others are. But I have
no idea really. I even wondered sometimes if I was the only one that read it. I enjoy it a lot. What with my facination
for words. I am always glad to find one that I am unfamiliar with. I try not to put ones here, that are too familiar. That way people can possibly learn from them..
Mandy21:
I read this thread every day, Janice, and apply it wherever possible.
For some reason, though, I haven't been successful at putting all of the words, such as 'macaronic', into a sentence that people understand.
They look at me like this => :-\ and then move slowly away.
But I *do* read and learn them, if only for my own edification. Thanks for posting.
ifyoucantfixit:
I have used a lot of them myself. But i too had a bit of a problem with macaronic..Its not something that
comes up every day... :)
I really am glad to know that someone else is enjoing too..thanks
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