Watermelon
Gas Price: $3.43/gallon
Sunny and breezy today.
Finger is healing. Have a flap of skin that has yet to fall off. Kind of annoying. Skin underneath looks ok. the cut looks ok too.
Work was work. I'm glad I missed the corporate consultant visit yesterday.
I've been dreaming of meeting a pink centaur mare.
Time for bed. *hugs*
She needed to reduce the verbiage of the letter in order to publish it.
Word of the Day for Tuesday April 16, 2013
verbiage • \VER-bee-ij\ • noun
1 : a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content
2 : manner of expressing oneself in words : diction
Did you know?
"Verbiage" descends from Middle French "verbier" ("to chatter"), itself an offspring of "werbler," an Old French word meaning "to trill." The usual sense of the word implies an overabundance of possibly unnecessary words. It is similar to "wordiness," except that it stresses the superfluous words themselves more than the quality that produces them. In other words, a writer with a fondness for "verbiage" might be accused of "wordiness." Some people think the phrase "excess verbiage" is redundant, but that's not necessarily true. In the early 19th century, "verbiage" developed a second sense meaning, simply, "wording," with no suggestion of excess. This second definition has sometimes been treated as an error by people who insist that "verbiage" must always imply excessiveness, but that sense is well-established and can be considered standard.
Sunny and breezy today.
Finger is healing. Have a flap of skin that has yet to fall off. Kind of annoying. Skin underneath looks ok. the cut looks ok too.
Work was work. I'm glad I missed the corporate consultant visit yesterday.
I've been dreaming of meeting a pink centaur mare.
Time for bed. *hugs*
She needed to reduce the verbiage of the letter in order to publish it.
Word of the Day for Tuesday April 16, 2013
verbiage • \VER-bee-ij\ • noun
1 : a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content
2 : manner of expressing oneself in words : diction
Did you know?
"Verbiage" descends from Middle French "verbier" ("to chatter"), itself an offspring of "werbler," an Old French word meaning "to trill." The usual sense of the word implies an overabundance of possibly unnecessary words. It is similar to "wordiness," except that it stresses the superfluous words themselves more than the quality that produces them. In other words, a writer with a fondness for "verbiage" might be accused of "wordiness." Some people think the phrase "excess verbiage" is redundant, but that's not necessarily true. In the early 19th century, "verbiage" developed a second sense meaning, simply, "wording," with no suggestion of excess. This second definition has sometimes been treated as an error by people who insist that "verbiage" must always imply excessiveness, but that sense is well-established and can be considered standard.