Thursdays are vocabulary day in our 30 day challenge. Our inspiration is actually two words: smatchet / menge, both from A.Word.A.Day with the incredible wordsmith Anu Garg.
Philip Guston, drawings of Richard Nixon, 1971-1975
smatchet
PRONUNCIATION: (SMACH-uht)
MEANING: noun: An insignificant contemptible person. ETYMOLOGY: Of Scottish origin. Earliest documented use: 1582. USAGE: “Again he wondered how Mieka could be such an infuriating, impossible little smatchet one moment and so gentle and thoughtful the next.” – Melanie Rawn; Touchstone; Tom Doherty Associates; 2012. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 Oct 1869-1948)
America has changed over the years. But these values my grandparents taught me — they haven’t gone anywhere. They’re as strong as ever; still cherished by people of every party, every race, every faith. They live on in each of us. What makes us American, what makes us patriots, is what’s in here. That’s what matters. And that’s why we can take the food and music and holidays and styles of other countries, and blend it into something uniquely our own. That’s why we can attract strivers and entrepreneurs from around the globe to build new factories and create new industries here. That’s why our military can look the way it does — every shade of humanity, forged into common service. That’s why anyone who threatens our values, whether fascists or communists or jihadists or homegrown demagogues, will always fail in the end. -Barack Obama, 44th US President (b. 4 Aug 1961)
plural menschen (MEN-chuhn, MEN-shuhn) or mensches MEANING: noun: A decent, upright, honorable person. ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish mentsh (man, human being), from Middle High German mensch, from Old High German mennisco. Earliest documented use: 1911. USAGE: “A mensch is a good man, a loyal man, an honest man. A mensch is the answer to the question, ‘What do women really want from men?’ … A mensch is not usually interested in fame. … A mensch is a veterinarian who will meet you at his office late at night when your cat is sick.” – Ira Wood; The Kitchen Man; Leapfrog Press; 1998.
“‘You’re a mensch,’ Mr Eizenstat told Mr Biden. But probably not a president.” Biden Ridin’; The Economist (London, UK); Sep 4, 2015.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Our nation is shaped by the constant battle between our better angels and our darkest impulses. It is time for our better angels to prevail. -Joe Biden, 46th US President (b. 20 Nov 1942)
Human nature is originally good. Any evil in it results from the changes made upon it by external things. Of man’s first disobedience and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world for all our woe. –Lu Wang (1139−1192), Chinese Philosopher and John Milton’s Paradise Lost. From the series Great Ideas. Artist: Jacob Landau, 1960
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30SAL Challenge: Smatchet / Menge
Thursdays are vocabulary day in our 30 day challenge. Our inspiration is actually two words: smatchet / menge, both from A.Word.A.Day with the incredible wordsmith Anu Garg.
smatchet
PRONUNCIATION: (SMACH-uht)
MEANING: noun: An insignificant contemptible person.
ETYMOLOGY: Of Scottish origin. Earliest documented use: 1582.
USAGE: “Again he wondered how Mieka could be such an infuriating, impossible little smatchet one moment and so gentle and thoughtful the next.” – Melanie Rawn; Touchstone; Tom Doherty Associates; 2012.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 Oct 1869-1948)
America has changed over the years. But these values my grandparents taught me — they haven’t gone anywhere. They’re as strong as ever; still cherished by people of every party, every race, every faith. They live on in each of us. What makes us American, what makes us patriots, is what’s in here. That’s what matters. And that’s why we can take the food and music and holidays and styles of other countries, and blend it into something uniquely our own. That’s why we can attract strivers and entrepreneurs from around the globe to build new factories and create new industries here. That’s why our military can look the way it does — every shade of humanity, forged into common service. That’s why anyone who threatens our values, whether fascists or communists or jihadists or homegrown demagogues, will always fail in the end. -Barack Obama, 44th US President (b. 4 Aug 1961)
mensch
PRONUNCIATION: (mench, mensh)
plural menschen (MEN-chuhn, MEN-shuhn) or mensches
MEANING: noun: A decent, upright, honorable person.
ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish mentsh (man, human being), from Middle High German mensch, from Old High German mennisco. Earliest documented use: 1911.
USAGE: “A mensch is a good man, a loyal man, an honest man. A mensch is the answer to the question, ‘What do women really want from men?’ … A mensch is not usually interested in fame. … A mensch is a veterinarian who will meet you at his office late at night when your cat is sick.” – Ira Wood; The Kitchen Man; Leapfrog Press; 1998.
“‘You’re a mensch,’ Mr Eizenstat told Mr Biden. But probably not a president.”
Biden Ridin’; The Economist (London, UK); Sep 4, 2015.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Our nation is shaped by the constant battle between our better angels and our darkest impulses. It is time for our better angels to prevail. -Joe Biden, 46th US President (b. 20 Nov 1942)
Artist: Jacob Landau, 1960
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