Word of the Day
I just signed up for one of those word-of-the-day websites. Expanding my vocabulary is a good thing, and if all else fails, I can befuddle others with my verbosity.
Today's Word Is:
feuilleton (FOI-i-ton) noun
1. The part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature,
criticism, and the like; also something printed in this section.
2. A novel published in installments.
3. A short literary piece
[From French, from feuillet (sheet of paper), diminutive of feuille (leaf), from Old French foille, from Latin folium (leaf). Ultimately from Indo-European root bhel- (to thrive or bloom) that gave us otherdescendants as flower, bleed, bless, foliage, blossom, and blade.]
"Finally, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung offers tongue-in-cheek reading of the situation on the front page of its feuilleton section, saying, 'Germany is a world champion -- at least in exporting goods. We even offer up our students to study abroad, especially when they are talented.'"
Germans Stew Over Joblessness; Der Spiegel (Hamburg, Germany) Mar 15, 2005.
"And for more than a decade now, in a supreme triumph of feuilleton journalism, The New Republic has left its readers in weekly agonies of suspense over whether next week's episode will recount precisely such a leap, finally and irrevocably, to the monarchist cause."
Paul Berman; Canned Heat; The New Republic (Washington, DC); Nov 23, 1992.
Today's Word Is:
feuilleton (FOI-i-ton) noun
1. The part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature,
criticism, and the like; also something printed in this section.
2. A novel published in installments.
3. A short literary piece
[From French, from feuillet (sheet of paper), diminutive of feuille (leaf), from Old French foille, from Latin folium (leaf). Ultimately from Indo-European root bhel- (to thrive or bloom) that gave us otherdescendants as flower, bleed, bless, foliage, blossom, and blade.]
"Finally, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung offers tongue-in-cheek reading of the situation on the front page of its feuilleton section, saying, 'Germany is a world champion -- at least in exporting goods. We even offer up our students to study abroad, especially when they are talented.'"
Germans Stew Over Joblessness; Der Spiegel (Hamburg, Germany) Mar 15, 2005.
"And for more than a decade now, in a supreme triumph of feuilleton journalism, The New Republic has left its readers in weekly agonies of suspense over whether next week's episode will recount precisely such a leap, finally and irrevocably, to the monarchist cause."
Paul Berman; Canned Heat; The New Republic (Washington, DC); Nov 23, 1992.
posted by Vixen at 7:09 PM
4 Comments:
Hello there. You have a really nice blog. I liked the text in your profile "Make a space far from the maddening crowd; scream into the empty night; fall into the void." Did you come up with that or are you quoting someone else?
Glad you like it pseudosanity, yes it is original, an excerpt from a poem of mine.
Wordsmith is hilarious. Check out this link and scroll down to August 20th. There's nothing like Wordsmith's remarkably thorough fact-checking department. LOL.
definitely Jer. :)
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