TALK POLICE ALERT!
I just heard Ned Lamont on Rachel Maddow use the word "dithering" twice. My heart sank. The word drips of Dickard Cheney's ectoplasm. Kill "dithering." Let's pray it does not encroach upon poltical discourse.
TABU WORD....DITHERING*
*it's ok to quote .Cheney.
TABU WORD....DITHERING*
*it's ok to quote .Cheney.
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does "pothering"
get your seal of approval
for use in political discourses?
how about "disjunction"?
November 3, 2009 2:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
pothering...that's hot.
disjunction...good term, right off the pages of Irwin Panofsky, the great art historian.
I vote yes on both.
November 3, 2009 2:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
yeah; dithering causes me to think about attmpting to approximate hues in lossy colour schemes (ie 16, 32, 64, 128, etc colour palettes). often ugly, in terms of art.
November 3, 2009 5:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
My first thought as well.
November 3, 2009 8:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
I enjoy using Roget’s 1922 International Thesaurus. The complete reference work is online at Bartleby.com, and is one of my first web stops when researching English words.
The link I gave for disjunction above is illustrative:
Words Expressing Abstract Relations --> Quantity --> Conjunctive Quantity --> Disjunction.
November 3, 2009 4:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
hahahah. I do feel that prosecutors, state and federal are dithering with regard to THE proper investigation and prosecution of the former vice president of the United States.
THE END
November 3, 2009 4:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Me thinkst thee dithering.
November 3, 2009 7:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Plus 'Julius and Cora Dithers' in Dagwood and Blondie!
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/blondie/charactMaina.htm
I say, let the President 'Dither'. As some wags said, George and Dick should have dithered awhile before Shock and Awe.
November 3, 2009 7:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
They should have sought ditherd opinion.
November 3, 2009 10:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
I forgot all all about the DITHERS. ha
November 3, 2009 3:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
But our President makes dithering an art form!
November 3, 2009 2:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
looks like someone has gotten their self caught up in the well-known guy escapist novel written by Emilio Brawnte, "Dithering Spites".
November 3, 2009 4:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
groan...yet good.
November 3, 2009 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Far from the Dithering Crowd...
November 3, 2009 6:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Much to do About Dithering...
November 3, 2009 6:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Greeeeaaaaaaaat!
November 3, 2009 7:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dithering Heights ...
November 3, 2009 10:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cath!
Also.
November 3, 2009 10:45 PM | Reply | Permalink