vocabulary question

[cacian]

Sipid and Sapid is there much difference between the two?
Has the word NAUGHTY 'sexual' connotation when out of context?
In this example?
''naughty Redford he did not do what he was told to''.

[YesNo]

I had to look up both "sipid" and "sapid". It looks like they mean the same thing.

When I hear the word "naughty" it does bring to mind a nice sexual connotation, but there's nothing really naughty about it.

[cacian]

Hehe thank you YesNo it is one of those words that everytime I hear it I think about it in that sense for a second or two.
It would be interesting to find out whether it was first used in connotation with being disobedient and how it developed into becoming a hint to something else.

Another word DAMSEL.
I thought it was a flower until today. I have no idea why ,Good thing I checked it I was about to put in a piece as that. LOL

[YesNo]

In looking up naughty it seems like the sexual aspect of it goes back to 1869: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=naughty

When I think of "damsels" they are usually in distress for some reason or other often involving a dragon. Once you have the damsel and the dragon, there is usually a knight nearby. The three make good subjects for a limerick.

[cacian]

YesNo thank you for the link. It is interesting naughty in Old English isnawiht for nothing.
I do not somehow link it with disobedient. For me disobedient is refusing to do something and naughty is simply cheeky or mischievious.

I was going to ask how often do you check for word meaning? I tend to double check most of the time but that is because I do tend to know words more often then meaning for some strange reason haha.

[cacian]

Another interesting vocabulary is euphemism as oppose to dysphemism. How often do you relate to these antonyms?

[AuntShecky]

Another interesting vocabulary is euphemism as oppose to dysphemism. How often do you relate to these antonyms?

You might find the answer in an early "A Word With You" blog:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?9479-Word-blog-3-quot-Dyssing-quot-Euphemisms

[YesNo]

I was going to ask how often do you check for word meaning? I tend to double check most of the time but that is because I do tend to know words more often then meaning for some strange reason haha.

I tend to check facts or ideas rather than the meanings of words. Those ideas I will double check especially if I have to report on them to someone else. In the process I learn new words but those new words are mostly jargon from some field of study. The ideas are what most interest me.

For example, I was reading Young and Alexander's The Chemistry Between Us. They presented the idea of the "organizational hypothesis" to describe how gender is part of our brains and not created by culture which would be the "social construction of gender". The meanings of the individual words they use are obvious, but the ideas underlying these words taken as a whole are not.

You brought up antonyms like euphemism and dysphemism. I did not know there even was a word like "dysphemism".

[cacian]

Hi YesNo I have never heard 'organizational hypothesis''. At first I thought it might be something like a group hypothesis when more then one person, ie group, think of or hypothesize about the same thing.
About gender I am not sure I understand what they mean by ''it is part of our brain rather then cultural''. Gender is a biological stand like a graphic design to stand a human body against. Without gender we won't exist. The issue with culture is that it stigmatizes genders into two separate boxes as if they were instruments and insist on separation of the two or masculine and feminine as we know them. Culture does not understand biology and biology does not reach appropriately to culture and people and I think therein lies the issue.
Culture deviates from what is considered normal and turns into an issue ie a problem. Gender is not specific to one individual. I believe that we human beings are both male and female. What culture does is stigmatize this knowledge as if it were a condition rather then norms.
I understand quite a bit about gender concepts because I live with someone whose feminine is stronger the his masculine side and so he suffered for a very long term and depressed quite acutely about it.
I think for many of us the two parts, the M and the F, fit in easily and happily. Others unfortunately are one sided more predominant then the other. The idea is to see it as something natural and to go with it. There are many ways of feeling good about oneself and being aware that both genders are better suitable and manageable when together not separate. I think the idea is to manage both to a point where genders coincide rather then clash. How and why depends on understanding and challenges one is prepared to take.
Sorry I do not mean to go on.
About dysphemism it was the first I heard of it too I only came across it when I was looking up the word euphemism. I guess there is an advantage in looking up words because one always comes across other words.

[YesNo]

I don't understand it either although every now and then I think I do.

The "organizational hypothesis" is that male and female brains are different. They are "organized" differently. The individual words make sense "organizational" and "hypothesis", but together, I wonder what it implies. None of this may be relevant to your partner. I hope his depression goes away.

I probably should look up more words than I do. I guess I assume I know what they mean.

[cacian]

The next two words are:

Is there a difference between: Impersonation and Personification?

[hillwalker]

impersonation = to pretend to be someone else by perhaps copying their dress or voice or behaviour. Impersonating a police officer, for instance, is a crime (certain warped individuals think it's ok to dress up in uniform and take the law into their own hands)

personification = to apply human characteristics to a non-human object. For instance, writing that the clouds wept, or the wind sighed, or the shore wrapped its arms around the sea.

Incidentally, if you do this when describing animals - having them behave like people (e.g. 'The Wind in the Willows' or most Disney movies) - it's called 'anthropomorphism'.

H

[cacian]

hillwalker this is great. I understand it now.
Anthropomorphism I never heard of and what a word. Presumably the meaning does not apply the other way around for a human imitating animals?

[hillwalker]

No, you're right. :)

H

[cafolini]

LOL. Animalism?

[cacian]

LOL. Animalism?

Lol Animalism goes down a treat. I think I might adopt that if I may.:D

Here is a couple of words I am intrigued about:
passover and leftover I wonder if these are somehow related. I guess if people relate as in related/family words could do too right?

[MadCow]

Zoomorphism: The tendency of viewing human behaviour in terms of the behaviour of animals, analogous to anthropomorphism, which views animal behaviour in human terms

[MadCow]

Passover is a Jewish holiday. A leftover is something left over from something else - often food. On Monday you can make a meal out of Sunday's leftovers.