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"Isms. Don't believe in them. Can't believe without them." - I'M'
Archive for September, 2007
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Ptyalism
Ptyalism (the P is silent) is simply the medical term for people who drool. M-w.com says:
Main Entry: pty·a·lism
Pronunciation: -”li-z&m
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin ptyalismus, from Greek ptyalismos, from ptyalizein to salivate, from ptyalon
: an excessive flow of saliva
It doesn’t get much more straight forward than that.
So. What to say about a no-nonsense word like [...]
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Predestinarianism
Predistinarianism – now that’s a mouthful of ism. You have to chew a long time on predestinarianism before you swallow, or you just might get an ism lodged in your wind-pipe.
So what is it? This predestinarianism?
It’s about Oedipus not having a chance to be anything other than a pitiful abomination. It’s about [...]
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Giantism
There are obvious things to say about giantism. Andre the Giant (whose best work was definitely in The Princess Bride). Various 7-foot-plus NBA stars. That fellow in the Guinness Book of World Records.
BIG people.
It would be easy to stop there, and perhaps I should. But one of my favorite personal faults [...]
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Abstractionism
Abstractionism is essentially the word used to describe the methods and ideas used to create abstract art.
It’s a bit of a broad category.
You can pee on a canvas, sculpt with tar, scream in gibberish or get paint on a snake and let it writhe around on a piece of artist’s paper — and you can [...]
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Absolutism
One of the things I’m finding in my exploration of the ism universe is that there’s a good deal of passion that is implicit in the words, and a certain amount of emphatic certainty.
Take, for example, our hero of the day, Absolutism.
m-w.com says of absolutism:
Main Entry: ab·so·lut·ism
Pronunciation: ‘ab-s&-”lü-”ti-z&m
Function: noun
1 a : a political theory that [...]
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Absenteeism
Absenteeism is the sweetheart of truants, accomplice of sick building syndrome, the sidekick of slum lords, and the arch enemy of presenteeism, which is an equally dastardly, if slightly less known, ism.
Some who claim to be close to Absenteeism, a.k.a. “Ab-T”, say that it listens to the Grateful Dead and did too many drugs in [...]
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Abolitionism
From the hallowed halls of Wikipedia, we have this brief introduction to abolitionism:
Abolitionism is a political movement that seeks to end the practice of slavery and the worldwide slave trade. It began during the period of the Enlightenment and grew to large proportions in Europe and United States during the 19th century, eventually succeeding in [...]