OT- Word of the day.

[Iansidious]

Alneyan said:
Well, a ballet would require more than one dancer; therefore, I should ask you to perform an arabesque with myself (I would indeed be quite annoyed should you say "yes").

Hierophant (pronouncation would probably be roughly the same one as in Ancient Greek; I cannot decipher the "how to say it" part of dictionary.com definition though). It would literally mean something such as "Someone showing the holy".

1) Originally a title for Greek priests in mystery cults, especially the Eleusinian mysteries.
2) By extension, someone interpreting mysteries or arcane knowledge.

What do you think I would say? Yes. I would like to do ballet with you. As long you are the coryphée. Narf, Kamog, and I would be the other dancers. Wait! I would feel bilious at the thought of us dancing. Never mind. On to the words!


I want to do something different today. The person of the day.

Today's Person:

Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
(1778 -1852) Russian explorer. He explored an area of the Antarctic Sea (1819–1821) that was later named for him.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

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[Iansidious]

If you do I shall see you in court.




Today's Word:

Fianchetto fee in chet toe

n (plural fi·an·chet·tos or fi·an·chet·ti)
chess move of bishop: in chess, the development of a bishop by moving it from its original position to the second square of the adjacent knight’s file


vt (past fi·an·chet·toed, past participle fi·an·chet·toed, present participle fi·an·chet·to·ing, 3rd person present singular fi·an·chet·tos)
move bishop: to move a bishop using a fianchetto


[Mid-19th century. From Italian , literally “little flank,” from fianco “flank.”]

[Alneyan]

I am hurrying a bit for my daily contribution. The reason is to begin typing this post before midnight (local time), thus allowing me to do two Posts in a row.

So: pestilence. It is a noun, pronounced as advertised in the dictionary. Its meanings are as follow:
1) A fatal epidemic disease, especially a specific plague (does it show I haven't studied biology much?)
2) By extension, a pernicious or evil influence.

[Alneyan]

Narf, you cannot strike down a fellow mouse with your Hammers of Doom. Yes, I am actually a mouse, only I am posing as a human to fool these gullible creatures. It does make sense. So please put down this hammer, will you? On the other hand (mice do not have hands, but that shall be made irrelevant), Lan happens to be a sworn enemy of the Most Holy Cause of the Mice, and has actually been involved in plots against the Cause. These facts are obviously not biased at all, and not altered by my concerns about my safety.

So here comes the second word, now that I have sneaked one at 2359 (server time for my time zone). Resilience. It is a noun, pronounced... Who am I fooling? Everybody knows the "pronouncation" field is only here to placate Lan after all. But perhaps I shouldn't have said that aloud...

1) The ability to quickly recover from illness or change. (Will be helpful once Narf has done some smiting with his hammers.)
2) The property of a material that enables it to resume its original shape or position after being bent, stretched or compressed. (Ditto.)

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Bah! I see through your babblings! You posted your 'plot' for all to see! Let the hammering commence!

[Kamog]

Resilience... I remember when I first learned that word! It was back when I was a kid and playing video games on the Intellivision. (In case you haven't heard of them, Intellivision was a game console, like Playstation or Nintendo, and it took cartridges.)

There was a two-player game called Sea Battle, in which you had a fleet of warships and you battle the other player. You had a battleship, a submarine, PT boat, and so on. Each ship had a stat called resilience, which was the amount of damage it could take before sinking, in other words, its hit points.