4/16/05 Weird Word of the Day

[GoddessOfGuinness]

caliginous

SYLLABICATION: ca·lig·i·nous
PRONUNCIATION: k-lj-ns
ADJECTIVE: Dark, misty, and gloomy.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin clginsus, from clg, clgin-, darkness.

Now use it in a sentence:
The 2000 selection ushered in a peculiarly caliginous era of American History.

[bridgit]

1. his mood hast both the gleam & dank...

of a caliginous moor.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. Sounds like a line from

Wuthering Heights...

[DrDebug]

2. Now for something completely different

I got the weird idea of instead of thinking up a sentence to look for a sentence where it has been used. Most references were about dictionaries and using caliginous as a name and then this one popped up. Very strange but still touching. Very caliginous as well...

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I am looking for a pen-pal. I was born 7-4-74 in Georgia where I have always lived. I have been incarcerated for 7 years now, six of which have been spent on death row.

Some of my interests are skiing, swimming, racing, horse back riding and the outdoors.

(...)
Writings

My all

Can I have your heart?

If so, then I’ll give you my all; the fragments, debris and dust. Some people say that I have a calloused, caliginous and malignant heart. I know this to be untrue. A calloused, caliginous and malignant heart cannot bleed, nor can it feel. I give you my love, my unconditional, unyielding, genuine love.
(...)

http://www.lampofhope.org/ga963560.html

It's hard to read given this persons background, but I guess it's important - as lesson for myself as well - because doesn't a person on death row have feelings, have love and can express it in poetry.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. Interesting find...

Even Hitler had feelings. We don't like to hear about them though. It's much easier to kill people we perceive as heartless. :(

[DrDebug]

5. It's very interesting find indeed

This was the first real result I could find, I saw references earlier but they were not in real sentences. Somehow I guess it's a lesson. I was a bit amazed when I first read his poetry because he did touch me.

I've found his life story and that makes it a lot easier, because then you know the background as well.

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I am a 30 year old (July 4, 1974) single, white male, currently on Death Row in Georgia. I was 22 when I was arrested. During these years in prison, I have grown, matured, and learned so many things about life. As you look through these pages, see a young man who is kind and loving and talented. See a young man who is looking for friendships, advice, and support...
(...)
http://www.todesstrafe-usa.de/death_penalty/voices_ga_cook.htm

And there he talks about his broken home and the abuse he suffered. Strange that you mentioned Hitler, because Hitler came from a broken home as well and was homeless for awhile as well. The anger and hatred is always passed on.

That's the problem. And sometimes I do it as well. You pass the anger on to the next and he/she passes it on and that's the vicious circle. Actually we are lucky because he haven't been passed that much anger in our lives, but some people have. I think we should pass on love. Why am I looking at John Lennon right now. His Imagine single is catching my eyes.

I don't know if I make any sense, because I type as I think. Guess that's the best thing to do right now...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. I was thinking about precisely this a few days ago...

Jesus was born into a world full of poverty, anger and hatred. His people had every reason to resent the Roman occupation of their territory. But Jesus used love and forgiveness and peace to amass a tremendous following...not anger and violence.

If we are ever to convince the middle-of-the-road masses to turn from the rethuglicans, we'll need to use respect, love, and gentle reasoning; and turn our backs on negativity. That's exactly what Bill Clinton did when he bowled America over. It was his positive approach to people that won him the election.

[DrDebug]

8. I thought about this prior to reading this as well

That I suddenly felt totally different about the Pope after seeing the picture of him and his assassin. I didn't agree totally with him, but I thought he was a good man, old fashioned, but I felt different when I first saw that picture. It was here on DU as well in that picture thread. It was almost emotional and I thought to myself: "He is honest about forgiving his assassin. How great a man does it take to such a thing."

Two hours ago I thought of that while returning home from doing the groceries. "Would you be able to forgive such a man with a sincere open heart" and now this happens. Like God is playing the dice (anyway I'm a Buddhist - not a real practising one; I still have a long way to go, so I don't believe in God, but I don't believe in coincidence either)

Forgiveness is probably the only key to stop us from passing on the hatred and anger passed on to us. Because that stops the vicious circle which brings so much misery in this world.

[DrDebug]

10. I guess I know what I have to do as well

Try writing a letter to Andrew Cook. Man, that's going to be tough. Never done that. I don't even know him. Nobody deserves to die anyhow, so it's fair and he sounds lonely.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. After looking at that site, I feel the same way...

And I don't subscribe to any particular religion. I just used Jesus as an example...the same example offered to us by Gandhi, King, and others.

[DrDebug]

15. Love, forgiveness and compassion are keys for anybody

You don't need a religion. But you do need to learn to live according to those three keys and that's hard enough...

I'm trying to find some information about what happened

And then of course you can't find anything, because it's not important. The only thing I could find was Patrick M. HENDRICKSON vs GEORGIA POWER CO. and that's sad, because the father of one of the murdered kids is suing Georgia Power Co. because it happened on their grounds. Somewhere the world has gone crazy.

So we have this as a little bit of a background
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=11th&navby=case&no=0011069MAN

I think I'll just say what happened and how I found him and just talk a bit about myself and that I oppose the death penalty and yes I am a member/donor of Amnesty International.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. I'd like to buy some of this guy's crochet if I like it...

but I don't see the samples he mentioned on the site.

[DrDebug]

22. Done.

I think it wasn't the original site. It looks like a German copy of where it originally came from.

I'm done. I've written my first letter. It wasn't even that hard. I hope that something good will come out of all of this.

[MuseRider]

7. As in

Oz: "You dare to come to me for a heart, do you? You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk!"

Edit I put the quotation marks in the wrong place DUH

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. LOL!

I'd never listened closely to that line. After clinking and clanking, I always focused on the "cl"s!

[MuseRider]

12. Go figure.

It was the very first thought I had after I read your post. I remember looking that word up as a kid wondering what it meant. As a Wizard junkie as a kid I memorized the entire thing I think. Ah well, those days ended up being non stop dancing and singing with my boys who could do perfect munchkin talk. My guess is they will end up quoting and singing it to their kids. Anyway, thanks for bringing that to mind.

[Robeson]

11. Yes, I have one.....

Dysgraphia - a neurological-based writing disability in which a person finds it hard to form letters or write within a defined space.

For some reason, I've been suffering from this all morning....

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. I'm working with my 6 year old to overcome this...

I didn't realize it had a name. :-)

With him, I think it's more of a developmental issue than a neurological one, though.

[Robeson]

16. I hope it turns out OK....

...:thumbsup:

I think mine today, is due to sleep deprivation last night...:hangover:

[Nevernose]

17. Earliest known use is a sentence:

From Bannister's The historie of man, viii. 98 (1578):

"The liuer maketh the thicker bloud and that which is calaginous."

ad. L. caliginos-us ‘misty’, f. caligin-em mistiness, obscurity: cf. F. caligineux.

God I love the OED; I've been known to spend hours just looking things up at random.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. Wow!

Now I wonder what inspired someone to create the word...

[Nevernose]

21. Etymoygy gets pretty caliginous before the Romans

Since there was virtually no written record of Western European languages until the Romans, and the editors of the OED don't look before then, since there's less of a direct history. It's fascinating how much of modern archaeology is actually done through historic linguistics, and I wish I knew more than a few undergrad courses' worth in the subject.

Someone who spoke an Eastern European or Indian language could probably tell you if there were similar words in other languages, those similar to English such as Russian, Greek, or Sanskrit.

[SmileyBoy]

20. What?? Cunnilingus??

:evilgrin: