ITW:
Also French fem. adjective- forte- same meaning

rfidler, April 8 at 10:09 pm #

leefeller: Comedy/sarcasm/parody/lampoon is NOT your forte (that’s French). Don’t quit your day job at the homeless shelter. How do you find the time…..
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I was slow on the uptake on this one….“Forte” is NOT French, fidler. It’s ITALIAN, meaning “strong” or, more properly in music…loud.  And “piano” is Italian for soft…..so your baby grand pianoforte is a “softloud” if you translate it directly.

Fidler, don’t worry.  The UN translation service is NOT about to offer you a job—not even as house comedian.

lin gual [ling-gwuhl]

-adjective
1.  of or pertaining to the tongue or some tonguelike part.
2.  pertaining to languages.
3.  Phonetics. articualted with the aid of the tongue, esp. the tip of the tongue, as d, n, s, or r (and my own embellishment: Ith and Isth that begin words, or ith, and isth that end words, i.e., Ithn’t that beautith? and Ith that troo?)

-noun
4.  Phonetics.  a lingual sound.

Origin:  1250-1400; ME: tongue-shaped surgical insturment <ML lingualis.
See LINGUA, -al (2009, TD Commenter: Leefeller)

Related forms:
lin gual ly, adverb

Related Words for: lingually
linguistically

lisp |lisp|
-noun
1.  a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like th in thick and z is pronounced like th in this.
2.  Phonetics. any unconventional articulation of the sibilants, as the pronunciation of s and z with the tongue between the teeth (lingual protrusion lisp), close to or touching the upper front teeth (dental lisp), or raised so that the breath is emitted laterally (lateral lisp).  There is one more:  as written by neo-linguist Leefeller.
3.  The act, habit, or sound of lisping, or writing then reading the lisping indications.

verb [ intrans. ]
4.  to pronounce or speak with a lisp.
5.  to speak imperfectly, esp. in a childish manner.

DERIVATIVES
lisper |_l_sp_r| noun
lispingly |_l_sp__li| adverb

Origin:  before 1100; Old English wlispian (recorded in _wlyspian), from wlisp (adjective) ‘lisping,’ of imitative origin; ME wlispen, lipsen; compare with Dutch lispen and German lispeln; Norwegian leipsa

No other comment.  Just dropping by only to be able to watch the best electronic comic on TD.  The show is mo betta than anything on TV.  I hope the show isn’t over.  Thank you Leefeller you may be an heir of George Carlin, except his linguals included lotsith of obthenities.

Fidler,

In fact I have given up my day job, only because I was asked to leave.  Had thomething to do with my thpeaking, thad they had trouble with me ending my conversations to customers with “butt head”, so they replaced me with a person from India who is not lingually challenged to answer phone calls.

inherit (inherent?) the wind:

You’re right. Truthdig is in fact a hilarious comedy website and I’m just not up to the task.

rfidler, April 8 at 10:09 pm #

leefeller: Comedy/sarcasm/parody/lampoon is NOT your forte (that’s French). Don’t quit your day job at the homeless shelter. How do you find the time…..
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Yeah, but he’s still a heluva lot funnier than you are.

leefeller: Comedy/sarcasm/parody/lampoon is NOT your forte (that’s French). Don’t quit your day job at the homeless shelter. How do you find the time…..

Thank you Fidler, for your astute observations.  Not only did I attend public school, but had the opportunity of becoming a public school scholar of sorts. My experiences, spending copious amounts of time waiting outside the principals office prepared me, in many ways for life in general.  For instance I learned to juggle because they would not let me play my bagpipes.  By the way, it was not my garage or my UFO. 

“bourgeois swine”.  Not sure what you mean, is it French or German?  I have never been to France though I have met a guy named Manfrid who was from Germany.  Pigs are very intelligent animals, I even had a blue ribbon pet pig once, until it’s owner paid the ransom, I mean reward.

In the case of “Opulence”, I wouldn’t want to be caught wearing animal firs or have a bear skin rug in home,  if this is what you mean?  I do have a white sheet with a hood which I found hanging on a clothes line behind the local judges house , it reminds me sort of what the Pope wears.  I think the hood goes over the pointed hat?  Since I am not Catholic and feel it would be sanctimonious, to wear in public without having using a popemobile, I dont’s suppose I could rent one someplace?  With my budget I would have to be wheeled around standing in a shopping cart?  One time I tried to sell the sheet and hood in front of the local Catholic church but got yelled at by some guy wearing black; “ get the hell out of there, something about that not being a rest room urinal? They should have the rest rooms in the back behind closed doors. 

ITW answered the question but here was what I thought about it. Which “I” he uses for his name, “inherit” or “inherent”, I believe he selected the name from an old movie, titled something about passing the wind?  Now he has cleared that up.  As for “progressive know-nothing”s,  there does seems to be more than enough of them to go around, especially the pretending kind, though I do not believe all of them are lingually challenged, (not sure what lingually means?)  though the ones I have seen are maybe challenged in other ways? 

Why did you call me a “Republican bible thumper bigot”?  Must say, these three words go together like, bacon, eggs and coffee, something seems missing?  Let me address them independently below.. 

Bible thumping comes in handy for acquiring loose change, so (feel a lipth coming on)  I toth them to people walking in the park, sort of like fith at Piketh Peak in Theattle.  While saying with a therious booming tone, “Time hath comeith for yeath to atonith thy thins”  This works very well and can sometimes be quite lucrative, at least until the police come.  How quickly the police show up, seems defendant on the number of people who miss catching the touthed bibles which is must be the thumping part, when they miss them.  A good tip for bible thumperth is to toth bibles underhanded.

. Now the “Republican bigot” part of your comment, you seem to be missing a key ingredient, “hypocrite”.  Hypocrite, is the toatht and jam needed to fill the missing ingredient from the analogy. 

Well, I need to have a cup of coffee, maybe one should establish , which word in the analogy ith coffee? Maybe, I will have a full Republican bible thumper bigot Hypocrite breakfath instead? Where do the potatoeth fit in?

Um…Fidler’s right on this one—it’s “Inherit The Wind” not “Inherent The Wind”—one of my all-time favorite plays—and a lot more tripping off the tongue than “Sizwe Bansi is Dead” or “Master Harold and The Boys” (tho both are stunningly good, too).

And certainly MUCH easier to write than “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed By the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade”  (aka…Marat/Sade)  Hate to think of what it was in its original German…..

Leefeller:
Yes, you may call me Fidler, but with one “d”. And I’m sorry about your illiteracy- you must have gone to public school. And you had a garage?! You bourgoise swine! Aren’t you ashamed of such conspicuous opulence? And don’t you mean “inherit”, not “inherent”? And, aren’t you making fun of the lingually challenged with your “lisp” comment? Why, you’re just a Republican bible thumper bigot who’s only pretending to be a progressive know-nothing!

Actually Fiddler, may I call you Fiddler? I speak in 8 different languages one for every day of the week and two on Sunday. Though none coherent in any language you or anyone else would know. Ever since I was abducted by a UFO from what I remember, though people say I closed a garage door on my head? Anyway, my attempts to write in the Queens English becomes harder all the time, so occasionally I even write in tongues or lapse into a lisp. 

FYI (For Your Information) ITW stands for “Inherent The Wind, my favorite news source.

Leefeller:
Two questions-
1. What is ITW?
2. Is English your first language?

We should worry about disastrous and plan for fret about them, we know we cannot do anything after they happen especially on jugsment day.

Since I get all my news from ITW, what was rfiddler referring too?

inherit the wind:
Very helpful post. Your solutions are well thought out and should be seriously considered by the administration.

Why is global warming always characterized as a disaster? To/for whom/what?

The fish don’t care- they move to where the water is to their liking. Plants don’t care- they grow where the climate is to their liking.

Species come and go. They thrive or die in elegantly Darwinian fashion. No individual polar bear will “suffer” for lack of ice floes. Polar bear populations will dwindle by virtue of declining birth rates, not from heat stroke. So what?

The only animal for whom warming might be a disaster is humankind, specifically those living within a few feet of sea level. And the disaster will be purely economic, not existential. No individual human will drown because of warming. He might lose his beachfront house, but not his life, unless the mayor of his town is Ray Nagin.

Yup.  And the unemployment figures jumping under Bush were fictions too, but when Obama came to office they got real.

And the bailouts didn’t begin till Obama came in.

And Barney Frank is responsible for the economic collapse.

Any more Faux News/Fox Noise talking points from the Hannity/Limbaugh/Beck/Coultergeist peanut gallery?

If it did cover up Texas, it could start with Bush’s house.

as far as your warming goes:

# Polar Bears have Endured Warmer Periods than are Forecast by IPCC.  They evolved into their present form some 700,000 years ago (or 100,000 years ago) (or 200,000 years ago) (or before the beginning of the last interglacial) and their molars changed some 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. Importantly, polar bears were likely present in some final version of their present form, during the last interglacial (130-110,000 years ago), as late 2007 research indicates, when there was virtually no ice at the North Pole and average Arctic temperatures at that time were 5.7 to 9.5 deg. F (3 to 5 deg. C) higher than present (IPCC, 2007). This date of evolution should be determined factually, as a first step, before taking action. If polar bears survived the past interglacial, as late 2007 findings indicate, the present warming may be of little consequence. In any case, the 20 polar bear populations need to be looked at individually, in terms of their threats and adaptability, and the management systems that govern their conservation.

#  The Arctic Reaches Record Low Ice Coverage in 2007The press trumpeted this every few days in the summer of 2007. Further down the page on the monitoring sites of major institutions was some additional news. Antarctic ice coverage at the same time was at or above the highest levels ever recorded. For example, see the University of Illinois Cryosphere Program.  In each case, reliable measurements date only from the arrival of satellite data in the 1970s, another usually omitted fact. However, since the Northwest Passage was open to sailing vessels in 1903-1905 (Gjøa/Roald Amundsen), and again in 1940-42 and 1944 (St. Roch), it is possible this recent reduction in Arctic ice is not an indicator of warming. The return of Arctic sea ice in 2008 to levels at least 30% greater than 2007 received little attention.

as far as your cities above sea level:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88520025

*ALWAYS take news reports in the papers, offline or online with a pinch of salt, the real purpose of many newspaper stories is very often to sell newspapers and/or gain some fame or career progression for the journalist.