[Peace-discuss] Keywords 112918

[E. Wayne Johnson]

omphaloskepsis ... the practice of making snide remarks about the appearance of someone's navel.  

"Have y'all see Susie Beth's ugly bellybutton?  It looks like someone had a mule with a bad case of vitiligo that was rear-ended by a forklift and they recycled its ass as a sweater lint trap..."

On Nov 30, 2018, 4:13 AM, at 4:13 AM, "C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>Practice omphaloskepsis and await embourgeoisement, you pulchritudinous
>callipygian!
>
>Translation: Turn on, tune in, and drop out, you bad ass!
>
>
>> On Nov 29, 2018, at 12:42 PM, Szoke, Ron via Peace-discuss
><peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> pulchritudinous
>> Definition - physically beautiful
>> If the meaning of this word seems counterintuitive, it's probably
>because the word's Latin ancestor pulcher ("beautiful") is unfamiliar,
>and pulchritudinous sounds more disgusting than enchanting. We have
>been using pulchritude to refer to beauty since the 15th century.
>Pulchritudinous is a more recent addition to our language; its use
>dates to the early 18th century, and only began to be used to
>specifically refer to people’s beauty in the middle of the 19th.
>> The braided locks of the pulchritudinous fair ones, with their
>infinity of triple plaits, are lent to the mercies of the wind.
>> — The Athenæum (London, Eng.), 25 Sept. 1858
>> => Cp. callipygian  (Keywords 110918) : having shapely buttocks.
>> 
>> omphaloskepsis
>> Definition - contemplation of one's navel as an aid to meditation;
>also: lack of will to move, exert, or change: inertia
>> In Greek, omphalos means “navel" and skepsis means “examination."
>Most of us are familiar with at least some words which the latter of
>these roots shares parentage with (skeptic, skepticism), but omphalo-
>words are considerably more rare. Among them are omphaloid, which is
>defined as “resembling an umbilicus (“navel”).
>> Football, tennis, and even cinemas by barbarians from the West has
>tended to lower the popularity of omphaloskepsis by encouraging
>extravert types of recreation.
>> — The Times of India (Mumbai, Ind.), 17 Feb. 1928
>> 
>> embourgeoisement
>
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