I'm sure that I've run across, perspicacity either in all the Sherlock movies or TV I have seen, and I would say definitely in the same or similar readings. But until I got my Kindle I would never try to use it, unsure of the def. Then I went to the Cambridge Dictionary and heard it. I don't think you'll see me using it a lot, LOL, but I always enjoy the lessons. Old dogs can learn new tricks. Thanks
What's bugging you, Mid Atlantic? summer 2014
Would this word---perspicacity--be a form of "perseverance"???
I would think they both mean the same thing...
G.
Somebody has to, like, try and keep vocabulary alive, cuz, like, pop culture and many twentysomethings aren't like trying to use, a bunch of, like, fancy words, and stuff
quick tip:
Open Google and type
define perspicacity
or whatever word you want
edited because link went goofy
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Sally, I'm not sure they would remember "vocabulary", even if it was a subject in grade school. ROTFL
U R rite. LOL.
On the other hand--"perspicacity"--I think is closer related to "precipitation".
--and in Sally's story about the bees, it could mean.......
--Extreme concentration on a task at hand.
hmm--then there is the different starts to these 2 words....
"per" vs the "pre"....which may change that I thought they might be related
That's, like. more to the point, like...as far as I think--it, like, makes more sense..
In defining this word--I, like, don't have nothing more to offer....noways.
G....
trying another link to the root 'per'
https://www.google.com/search?q=define+perspicacity&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb
means through or thorough or very.
Well I guess there's another darn bug in the system, my links end up linked back to this thread, not elsewhere.
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All I know, is that perspicacity is a really nice word to say. It just feels nice on the mouth.
I always google the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition for looking up unknown words. They also have pronunciations, but I never get the hang of putting the emphasis on the right syllables anyway so that part is always over my head HA HA. Anyway, I'm sure I would mangle the heck out of perspicacity but maybe I'll try saying it out loud on the drive home from work to see how nice it feels even if the pronunciation is wrong...
Merriam-Webster definition of perspicacity.
having or showing an ability to notice and understand things that are difficult or not obvious
I believe there are actually patterns to where the emphasis goes based on the number of syllables. PAT terns EM pha sis
Two syllables or three- always the first, or generally?
Four or five syllables, runs into complications LOL...but breaks the word into a two and two or two and three. COM pli CA tions
So you cannot say per SPIC a cit y because then you have three un emphasized syllables left on the end. Has to be PER spi CA city.
At least we aren't speaking french where they make rules just so things sound better
Wow--sally! You just impressed me with your language lesson.
Now--if you were a Latvian--there would be NO questioning which
part of the word is empathized. Accent is ALWAYS on the first syllable.
GI ta....
Singing Insects of North America
http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/a00samples.htm#fcrickets
You can listen to cricket and katydid songs!
LOL I have a friend who is always correcting my pronunciation of multi-syllable words. Once in awhile it ticks me off. and I may ask if I used it in context and did she understand. If she says yes, I tell her my efforts at communication must have been effective. When we travel, I also find it ROTF funny when I use a dialect and she corrects me, only to be corrected by a local afterword. My elocution is not my major concern, communication is.
I really like to use the Cambridge Dictionary for new or unfamiliar words, I like to hear the difference between Brit and US pronunciation. I enjoy reading on my Kindle, I learn new words and definitions, sometimes daily. Children today may lose the art of expression through use of things like: hw r u?
k. dng gd 2.
Hey, Ric--
This generation and all their abbreviated communication may well
develop a new "CODE" the enemy will never be able to crack.
:o) Gita
#secret #codetalk #acronymsjustbetweenus #donttellISIS
Here's something I found truly humbling: a guide to pronouncing Latin plant names
http://overplanted.com/resources/latin.php#C
I try to console myself that I was at least pronouncing a few names correctly : - )
that explains a lot... but then you have the ones named after people of other ethnicities
:D
Heuchera
"hyoo-ker-uh"?!
Thats what I say, but it is named after a German guy, I think, so I really don't know what's correct German.
Forsythia- named after Forsythe
I knew heuchera, but only because I'd heard a nursery salesman say the name.
But uh-GASS-tuh-kee for Agastache?
I first learned it as Ag-uh-STA-kee and have been saying it that way for so long that I don't think I'd ever say this one right.
Oh geez I've been butchering Agastache then. I pronounce it Ag-uh-stash. Just like mustache. Lol...I don't care if they say its 'sta-kee', I'm going to pronounce it the way I do and so what if I sound silly... :)
Hey Jeff, I'll know what you are talking about as to me it is mustache, too. And liriope rhymes with calliope, you know, the carousel one rides on!. And then there is clematis!
what, no LEE REE YOPE? lol
Let's try to apply Latin/ Greek pronunciation to Bougainvillea...
Thanks Coleup! That pronunciation of Liriope is goofy too. I pronounce it Leh-rye-o-pee.
hm, the way I read your pronunciation and theirs is the same way to me, Jeff
By the way, please DO NOT be concerned that we are off topic. Its my thread and I say it is OK so pfft haha
8^P
Well--
A lot off this debate rests on the fact that Americans pronounce letters,
and letter combinations a certain way. So--we struggle with the correct
pronunciations as they were intended to be by whomever named the plant.
Take "Heuchera"---the "ch" combination here is like in "child' (In American English).
In German--the "ch" combination is more like a "kh" sound--
as in "Mikhel"--a perhaps--more European/Slavic pronunciation of "Michael".
"Bauch" (body) in German is pronounced more as "Bauhh"..
it also seems that the "eu" in the above word is pronounced more like in "Pool"
so--a long "U".
Therefore--"H-oo-kh-era"...
G.
Bauch is belly : ) a key part of the body, to be sure.....just saying.. ..
Whatever the proper pronunciations, there's always the toss-up between being correct and expressing yourself in an effective way; e.g. when you go to a garden center and use the correct botanical name for a particular plant that you really want and get blank stares.....or when you want to sell plants that you stock at your garden center but also want to correct people's pronunciation of said plants and they walk away...
It's like going to a foreign countyr, If you want to communicate with the natives you should know some of their language.
Like calling Hemerocallis as tiger lily...
X^P
It is more like--What just bit me??
I was changing the water in a bird bath that sits under my old Lilac bush
and I saw these two big wasp-like bees flying around me.
Since I was holding the hose--'i started spraying them to shoo them away
when on of them bit me right on mt left arm's bicep. So fast--like in a flash!
OUCH!!!......Rubbed some meat tenderizer into the bite with a dab of water
and went back to see what these 'things" looked like.
They were big--shaped like an elongated bee. No pinched waist like Wasps...
Maybe 1-1/4" inches long.The tail end of the body was orange. Iam sure it
was some kind of a Wasp. What kind?????
I went and got my Hornet and Wasp spray and unloded about 1/2 a can in
their direction. Even hit one of them dead on. Didn't even faze them.
They were mostly sitting, vertically, on the stems of the shrub. Wonder if they had a
nest somewhere???? There are many holes in my rotting split rail fence
right behind this shrub, thanks to years of borer bees drilling away.
The bite site is starting to swell slightly(of course) and I can see a redness near it.
I am sure it will be a doozy tomorrow.....That area is a tender place to get bit.
Maybe I will find one dead tomorrow...then I can take a picture and add it to
my bug collection.
Please do not start worrying about me--OK!!!
Gita
Ouch. My arm is hurting in sympathy!
Did you wake up with a halo around the bite?
Did you wake up with a halo on your head?
:^)
I can'''t believe you were brave enough to go back and look at them!
You've never seen a bug bite with a red halo around it? You know it's a good one when that happens.
This AM--my whole upper arm is puffy. Between the elbow and the arm pit.
Very painfully itchy all night. Hot to the touch...
i KNOW this all will go away...eventually.. Took a Bnadryl and have
an ice pack on my arm. Not much else I can think to do....
IF it gets worse--I can run over to my DR.'s for a look see. Probably NOT.
It would have had some symptoms by now if it was going to get worse.
Last evening--i went out gain to see them--and there were 2 of them
hanging around together. Had my spray in hand--and blasted them both.
I don't expect it made much of a difference--but i will go and see if there
are any bodies on the grass. Don't want to crawl under the Lilac bush
to get a closer look. That could be stupid...
Sure wish I knew what kind of a Wasp it was. looked at "Wasps" on the Bug Files--
but since i do don't know, exactly, what they look like--it was no help.
That's why I want a dead one to see close-up. Then David can ID it.
Gita
Jeff--Now you and Sally are both goofy!
It is amazing how serious an effect one mini-second sting can have...
Turn your forearm up--see the fleshy part on each side of your elbow joint--
even those are swollen.
Off topic--while I have your attention here--
Is anyone interested in me rooting some starts of the Wassabi Coleus?
You would have to mother it along all winter, though.
These are so gorgeous in the garden--and I have never seen them at the HD.
I got my original cuttings on the clearance rack at Lowes last spring.
G.
I've heard of haloes/rings, Seq, I was just being silly.
I'd just watch the immediate site of the sting, for weirdness. Hope its better tonight.
I remember a sting as a kid that swelled from foot to knee. Many years now though the swelling of honeybees on the clover has just been small, then itch like crazy, then about gone by day 4, 5?
Two really big wasps I know are: European hornets and cicada killers.
I'll root my own Wasabi, of course.
You silly sally!
p.s. I always wake with a halo on my head :-P
Found a couple of new critters (new to Holly and I), and wanted to know if they are good, bad, or just ugly.
The first is on my hardy hibiscus, primarily the spent blooms. The second was on a Cavendish dwarf banana. They appeared to be stripping the leaf.
Oops, forgot the pics.
Double Oops, I posted them in the wrong order. The green sea slug looking thing is on the banana and the lady bug colored beetle? is on the hibiscus.
