damn |dam| verb [ trans. ] (in Christian belief) (of God) condemn (a person) to suffer eternal punishment in hell : be forever damned with Lucifer.
• ( be damned) be doomed to misfortune or failure : the enterprise was damned.
• condemn, esp. by the public expression of disapproval : intellectuals whom he damns as rigid doctrinaire idealists.
• curse (someone or something) : she cleared her throat, damning it for its huskiness | damn him for making this sound trivial.
exclamation informal
expressing anger, surprise, or frustration : Damn! I completely forgot!
The dictionary.com word of the day for August 25, 2005 is:
peccadillo - A slight offense; a petty fault.
Child of a dominant mother, victim of a guilt-ridden conscience, [St. Augustine] wrote bewilderingly haunted ‘Confessions,’ in which infantile peccadilloes like stealing apples and adolescent fumblings with instinctive sexuality are bewailed with all the anguish of a frustrated perfectionist.
--Geoffrey Parker, “True Believers,” New York Times, June 29, 1997
K-rad literally means 1000 times rad, just as a kbyte or kilobyte refers to around 1000 bytes.
K-rad was made popular in the 1980s by computer hacker circles. The word ‘rad’ reffered to a radical act performed by a hacker which deserved congratulations.
The term k-rad originated around the same time people started talking in numbers l1k3 th15. This type of language first started apearing on BBSes and FTP warez sites.
I h4v3 +h3 m05+ 733+, k-r4d 5k1llz 0n th3 n3+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Btw, I’m a total insomniac. It’s 5:30 here...in the morning. Damn.
From UrbanDictionary.com’s daily e-mail.
Iraqnophobia
An unusually strong fear of Iraq, especially its ability to manufacture and use biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons. (A play on arachnophobia, an unusually strong fear of spiders.)
Now that September is here, President Bush can launch his “initial public offering” of stock in his newest product, Iraqnophobia.
Sinecure - Easy job that you have no responsibility in. See Dictionary.com’s word of the day. I love this word. I always wanted a career with meaning but I’d settle for a job that let me have a second career for fun.
I never saw the original word of the day, so I’m not sure if these are supposed to be “official” or “sanctioned” words of the day, but I thought I’d make a didactic post, and share one of my personal favorite words…
didactic - adj
(from OAD)
•Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive : a didactic novel that set out to expose social injustice.
• in the manner of a teacher, particularly so as to treat someone in a patronizing way : slow-paced, didactic lecturing.
