It's "racial epithet", People...not epitaph!!!

[Dappleganger]

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGH! Dh wanted to know why I was screaming at the tv already before the speeches and voting has begun and this is why.

[Bicoastal]

1. Quit throwing asparagus and elaborate on this antidote.

[Cha]

2. Oh thanks..I used that word

(the wrong one) in a post I did yesterday..bc I saw it used in conjunction with the vicious attacks.

I thought hmm. must be right.

[Dappleganger]

3. The only one on MSNBC who had it right so far

is Luke Russert--at least his college degree wasn't a complete waste, LOL!

[Cha]

6. I looked it up..

"An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase."

Actually that word(epitaphs) has been perplexing me for awile. I was going to use it as this kind of description before and I looked it up and it didn't fit..and, then I said I saw it used yesterday to the "racial and sexual" epithets so I went with it.

Ah the English language(my native).. Thanks, this has cleared up something for moi

[ClassWarrior]

4. Doris Kerns Goodwin used that today. I thought she would have known better, though...

...it may just have been a slip of the tongue in her case.

NGU.

[CTyankee]

13. Shuster said it early on but then corrected himself later. nt

[Clio the Leo]

5. That annoys me as much as "prostrate gland." NT

[ellenfl]

7. i think the mispronunciation is 'epitet,' not 'epitaph'. that's how i

heard rove pronounce it, anyway.

ellen fl

[Dappleganger]

8. Dh said he heard Rove say it that way...

he's watching Faux in the bedroom today. Of course Rove is making up his own words to suit his twisted views.

[MissWaverly]

9. it's both, signalling an epitaph: passage of the neocons

and an epithet signalling boiling your message down to 1 word vulgarities to intimidate which is what they are doing as they sink
back down into their own toxic brew.

[Rage Inc.]

10. Rage Inc. (hopefully someways away)

"Here lies a pasty Irish Boy."

[hlthe2b]

11. Seems to be the most poorly understood two words out there today

I share your pain...

[99 Percent Sure]

12. It's a big word for little people like Turd Blossom, especially with the 'h' being silent and all.

It's a good word that isn't used nearly enough, especially with all of the derogatory name-calling that goes on in the IT age.

Epithet (epi-teta) - Etymology: Latin epitheton, from Greek, from neuter of epithetos added, from epitithenai to put on, add, from epi- + tithenai to put on Date: 1579

1a: a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing

1b: a disparaging or abusive word or phrase

1c: the part of a taxonomic name identifying a subordinate unit within a genus

[applegrove]

14. Deleted.