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Nov 04, 2010 04:54PM
Gabrielle, I'm an INFP, too! I thought I was the only one who had that disease.
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Oh, sorry, Gabi. An INFP is someone who has introverted feeling as her superior function, extraverted intuition as her auxiliary function, sensing as her tertiary function, and extraverted thinking as her inferior (dark) function.I would have used his instead of her, but everyone is ridiculously touchy about that these days, and I refuse to make the gross grammatical error of using their as referent to a singular antecedent.
M---Do you think that more Introverts than Extroverts hang around Internet sites?Behind the screen may embolden some, je ne c'est pas?
Gabi...google Myers-Briggs and it will bring up a little quiz you can take to find your magic letters and their meanings, according to the makers....
Susanne (Savvy Suz) wrote: "M---Do you think that more Introverts than Extroverts hang around Internet sites?Behind the screen may embolden some, je ne c'est pas?
Gabi...google Myers-Briggs and it will bring up a littl..."
Suz...you must surely mean: Je ne sais pas...or N'est-ce pas?
Is this INFP stuff something to do with personality tests which circulate in workplaces from time to time?
I don't understand it either, Gabi. I make lists...I'm always making lists...but I'm not particularly neat, with things arranged in rows...I would like them to be that way, but I can't seem to find my way through the clutter to achieve it. I sorted one drawer the other day, but everything that didn't belong in it is now strewn about...the drawer looks great, the rubbish has been thrown out, but there are bits of paper with phone numbers of people I haven't seen in years and packets of photos and unused stamps(but not the right price for posting a letter these days) and ...just piles of things that I don't quite know what to do with. As to the extravert/introvert dimension...it would depend on the day. I like people, but I'm happy in my own company and value solitude. My sister likes to ring me up for a chat, but I would rather get on with things and achieve something with my day. I'm never lonely on my own, but I can be lonely in company of people who seem to know eachother well if I don't have much in common with them. So I wonder where I would fit on this scale? Scales ...oh no! Let's not go there!
OK, I took the test(You should try it Gabi)..I liked #37'often you prefer to read a book than go to a party'
My type turned out to be INTJ...moderate score on all criteria. I particularly identified with this part of the description of my type..'suspicious of any statement that is based on shoddy research, or that is not checked against reality'...and also...'They know what they know, and perhaps still more importantly, they know what they don't know.'
Characteristics..imagination and reliability
Examples: Jane Austen, Mr Darcy, C.S.Lewis.
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This analysis works better if you also have a significant other answer the same questions about you.My profile is the combination that detests these tests...
Word For The Day: Discombobulation.....
The effect of personality profiling :D
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syz·y·gy noun \ˈsi-zə-jē\
plural syz·y·gies
Definition of SYZYGY
: the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies (as the sun, moon, and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse) in a gravitational system
Origin of SYZYGY
Late Latin syzygia conjunction, from Greek, from syzygos yoked together, from syn- + zygon yoke — more at yoke
First Known Use: circa 1847
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I wonder what would happen if you did googleSuz...would you get to see her house from above?
I love this word SYZYGY, Debbie. This has a lot of potential in scrabble. *sighs* If only I could get somebody to play with me.It's even been in my very old dictionary all this time and I never even noticed! Along with its plural, syzygies(imagine if you placed the first seven letters next to an 's' and the word covered a triple letter score!)and its cousins:
syzygant
syzygetic
syzygetically
syzygial
syzygium
Ms Spellcheck has her red marker pen out and is underlining everything!
And just in case you needed to know, Epirrhematic syzygy is the last four parts of the parabasis--that is the strophe or ode, epirrhema, antistrophe or antode, and antipirrhema:the choric as distinguished from the monodic parts of the parabasis.
Clearly, in 1899, this made sense to somebody, and possibly still does...we just don't know who.
Debbie, you find za most syzzlingk fverdz!
You're making me think of Psyllium, Gabi....wrong thread again.Not to mention mucilaginous...wrong effect, as well.
Gabi, you're onto something here. We're even laughing by osmosis!
Debbie wrote: "Met this word today.....syzygy. Love it!! No vowels...YES, it is one of my faves!
I thought that we'd posted it before?
There used to be a small poetry publication with this name out of the San Francisco area.
I subscribed briefly...don't know if it still exists or not?
from Wiki...Music
Syzygy is the title of a 1966 composition by American composer David Del Tredici that sets two James Joyce poems ("Ecce Puer" and "Nightpiece") from Pomes Penyeach for soprano and chamber orchestra, featuring French horn. From Del Tredici's early period, it is a serial work using palindromic themes.[2]
Syzygy is the name of a composition written by Michael Brecker which can be found on his self-titled album.
Philosophy
In philosophy, the Russian theologian/philosopher Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900) used the word "syzygy" to signify "unity-friendship-community," used as either an adjective or a noun, meaning:
a pair of connected or correlative things, or
a couple or pair of opposites.
Poetry
In poetry, syzygy is the combination of two metrical feet into a single unit, similar to an elision.
Consonantal or phonetic syzygy is also similar to the effect of alliteration, where one consonant is used repeatedly throughout a passage, but not necessarily at the beginning of each word.
In Greek Old Comedy, an "epirrhematic syzygy" is a system of symmetrically corresponding verse forms (see Aristophanes#Parabasis).
Psychology
In psychology, Carl Jung used the term "syzygy" to denote an archetypal pairing of contrasexual opposites, which symbolized the communication of the conscious and unconscious minds: the conjunction of two organisms without the loss of identity. Examples include Deities of Life and Death or of Sun and Moon, which are frequently depicted as male and female, and having a mutually opposing and mutually dependant relationship.
SYNRGYSYZYGY
look closely at the third letters....:D
for you writer's of sci-fi...OCELLUS
■(noun) A simple eye consisting of a single lens and a small number of sensory cells.
■(noun) An eyelike marking in the form of a spot or ring of colour, as on the wing of a butterfly or the tail of a peacock.
Notes
■'Ocellus' is diminutive of the Latin 'oculus,' eye.
Examples
■“Each ocellus is furnished with its own lid, and the apt [an Arctic monster] can, at will, close as many of the facets of his huge eyes as he chooses.”
■“This eye structure seemed remarkable in a beast whose haunts were upon a glaring field of ice and snow, and though I found upon minute examination of several that we killed that each ocellus is furnished with its own lid, and that the animal can at will close as many of the facets of his huge eyes as he chooses, yet I was positive that nature had thus equipped him because much of his life was to be spent in dark, subterranean recesses.”
I'm starting to feel distinctly dyslexic...did you write Othello?
No, that was another thello called syzyspeare.
ho, on! Aals poor tlhleo I kwen ihm not.
Not at all. Warm, witty and wise...that's Gabi.
The physio showed me how to do it and there seems to be some progress. I'll see how it is by next week.
How's that for a thank you! Make me feel like a
why don't you?
Piffle!
Your procrustean efforts are worthy of the keenest disapprobation and utter abrogation. Hmmphf!
This is still the Word For The Day thread, isn't it?
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(Jazz/blues sound)When I get the urge
I just got to splurge
I'm a slave to all my desires
I'm in such a mess
Cos I can't repress
all of these....bad habits
In another group, I'm reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,and just this morning noticed the vocabulary listed at the back of the book. This is one from the book:Penetralium...a word used to describe the inner rooms of the house..."...and I had no desire to aggravate his impatience previous to inspecting the penetralium" (Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte)
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Oh. And a cigar box.
Ruth wrote: "That's a new one for me. Sounds almost obscene."I had a similar reaction, Ruth. I wonder if that is why we don't use that word these days?
And in the penetralium you would no doubt find some form of nidifice.
better a nidifice than a lamia!lamia
Definitions
(noun) An enticing witch, who charmed children and youths for the purpose of feeding on their blood and flesh, like the later vampire; a female demon; hence, in general, a destroying witch or hag.
Notes
'Lamia' means literally in Greek 'swallower, lecher,' and comes from 'laimos,' meaning throat, gullet.
Examples
“It was not very long, however, before a lamia came under the tree and called out: 'Letiko, Letiko, come down and see what beautiful shoes I have on.'”
“The lamia, a vampire, half woman and half serpent like the wyvern, is a night bird, the white or the screech owl; the satyrs and fauns, the hairy beasts spoken of in the Vulgate, are, after all, no more than wild goats -- 'schirim,' as they are called in the Mosaic original.”
“If his senses had cheated him -- if, -- in spite of what he had heard, that pale, unspeakably lovely image were indeed a lamia, a goblin shape from Hecate's dark abode, yet would he follow wherever she might lead, as to a festival, only to be with her.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamia_(m...
Oh Suz, no.Next you'll be encouraging succubi, incubi, homunculi and devilry!
Where's the garlic?
A steak(stake) to the heart is better and smother it with garlic. Does that ward off the lamia , succubi, homunculi?
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Plaintive -- expressive of suffering or woe: melancholy (as opposed to Lassie collie).
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I love saying ubiquitous:ubiquitous [y bikwə təs]
adj.
see UBIQUITY & -OUS
present, or seeming to be present, everywhere at the same time; omnipresent
ubiquitously
adv.
ubiquitousness
n.
It does not have the same feel when you know what it means. Plus it is a great word for Scrabble.
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