A couple brief statements

[bellatrys]

Really brief, not just brief for me - RL has, to mince no words, been dire, and I have been spending most of the last week alternately looking desperately for another job, feeling too sick about having to go in to work to function, and trying to do something that will just possibly be salable in terms of visual art which means that I have to spend

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Not entirely related, but...

[wombat1138]

ISTR reading an anecdote written by an African-American about a white acquaintance who said to him (in apparent jocularity about some unimportant manner, but also deliberately stressing the last two syllables of the word in question), "You mean you went back on your word? That makes you a reNEGER."

Which just confused me for a while, since at the time, the root verb fell into my have-seen-but-never-heard category; I'd thought it was pronounced with a soft G and would sound like the first syllable of the Brit version of "leisure".

I've seldom heard it in use since then, either, though I was startled within the past few weeks to hear someone on the radio using "renege" (with the "-ig" sound, but not with the "-er" nominalizing suffix) in specific reference to Barack Obama "rejecting" bipartisanship by not letting the minority party dictate policy on its own terms, because it's just not FAIR for it to remain unaccommodated by the majority party even if the latter is controlling the White House and both houses of Congress, which is a manifestly UNNATURAL state of affairs, etc. etc. except IOKIYAR etc.