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What is the difference between an aphorism and an apophthegm? What is the difference between an aphorism and an axiom? What is the difference between an aphorism and a bromide? What is the difference between an aphorism and a dictum? What is the difference between an aphorism and an epigram? What is the difference between an aphorism and an epithet? What is the difference between an aphorism and an euphemism? What is the difference between an aphorism and a fragment? What is the difference between an aphorism and a haiku? What is the difference between an aphorism and an idiom? What is the difference between an aphorism and a joke? What is the difference between an aphorism and a maxim? What is the difference between an aphorism and a motto? What is the difference between an aphorism and a nostrum? What is the difference between an aphorism and an old saw? What is the difference between an aphorism and a parable? What is the difference between an aphorism and a platitude? What is the difference between an aphorism and a precept? What is the difference between an aphorism and a proverb? What is the difference between an aphorism and a quip? What is the difference between an aphorism and a quotation? What is the difference between an aphorism and a saying? What is the difference between an aphorism and a soundbite? What is the difference between an aphorism and a slogan? What is the difference between an aphorism and a truism? What is the difference between an aphorism and a witticism? Borrowed from : http://www.jamesgeary.com/
What is the difference between an aphorism and an adage?
An adage is a variation on a proverb and feels slightly hackneyed. An aphorism is always fresh.
An apophthegm is an anecdote, usually concerning historical persons and often set in antiquity, that may or may not have an aphorism as its punchline.
An axiom is a self-evident proposition, usually on which an argument or theory is based. An axiom must be true, or at least believed to be true. Truth is irrelevant to aphorisms.
Potassium bromide is used in medicine as a sedative. Literary bromides have the same effect.
A dictum is meant to settle an issue or pronounce a verdict. An aphorism incites debate.
Epigrams usually rhyme, are often funny and cynical, and are always intended to castigate or criticize a rival. When they are also philosophical, they are aphorisms.
An epithet is a nickname, or a descriptive phrase characteristic of a particular individual. While an aphorism is also specific, its application can be extended to encompass groups — of people, things or situations.
A euphemism is a clever, delicate phrase that expresses what you mean without actually saying it; an aphorism says exactly what you mean in precisely those words that best express it. Click here for the amazing, always amusing Euphemism Generator. Hours of fun for the whole family!
What is the difference between an aphorism and Euphuism?
Euphuism is a term used to describe the ornate, embellished, verbose style of Elizabethan writers like John Lyly. A euphuism is typically overly-long but also strangely beautiful. If you took a page of euphuistic prose, brought it to a low boil, and let it simmer overnight, you would wake up with an aphorism.
A fragment is a piece of writing that is, deliberately or involuntarily, left unfinished. An aphorism is complete in itself, the first link in a long chain of thought.
A haiku is impressionistic, imagistic, leaving an emotion or feeling rather than a thought in its wake. An aphorism, while often deploying startling imagery, always provokes thought in addition to emotion and feeling.
An idiom is a short metaphorical expression that cannot be understood through a literal interpretation of its constituent words; e.g. He “kicked the bucket.” An aphorism is also short and often metaphorical, but it is almost always a full sentence (rather than just an expression) whose meaning is usually not literal but can be discovered through analogy; e.g. “It is hard to dismount from a tiger.”
An aphorism is a joke whittled down until only the punch line is left.
A great maxim is also an aphorism. An inferior maxim is merely a rule of conduct.
Aphorisms can — and should! — be used as mottoes, but not all mottoes are aphorisms. Run-of-the-mill mottoes are simply statements of belief or principles of conduct.
Originally, a nostrum was defined as a medicine prescribed by a quack. Literary nostrums are psychic snake oil.
An aphorism gleams with the sharpest of wit; an old saw is rusty and no longer cuts it.
A parable is an anecdote, usually fictitious and mostly of a spiritual or moral nature, that may or may not have an aphorism within it that sums up its lesson.
An aphorism shakes you up, unnerves you; a platitude is trite and induces complacency. A platitude is a placebo for the mind; an aphorism is an electric shock.
A precept is a motto intended for personal use.
The author of an aphorism is known; the author of a proverb is long forgotten. Proverbs are aphorisms that have had the identity of the author worn away from frequent use.
A quip has a shelf life of about 15 minutes. An aphorism is immortal.
A quotation is just something somebody said.
“Saying” is a generic term for all these types of expressions, including aphorisms.
A soundbite is just something some politician said.
A slogan is a motto intended for corporate use.
A truism is a platitude presented as if it was a brilliant new discovery.
A witticism, like an aphorism, can achieve immortality, but it is just funny rather than philosophical.
Song of the Day.
Why are foreign gays so creepy?? Instead of consistently asking me what I think about women that pass by… why don’t you just go for the gold and ask what I think about the men?
I have a big ego. It gets me into trouble.
A Very Descript Man
I am such a dolent man,
I eptly work each day;
My acts are all becilic,
I’ve just ane things to say.
My nerves are strung, my hair is kempt,
I’m gusting and I’m span:
I look with dain on everyone
And am a pudent man.
I travel cognito and make
A delible impression:
I overcome a slight chalance,
With gruntled self-possesion.
My dignation would be great
If I should digent be:
I trust my vagance will bring
An astrous life for me.
On Great Ideas:
This is a great product.
It is Jordanian-made, its proceeds are meant to go directly to nature preservation (allegedly anyways..), it is blatantly breaking copyrights, it is slightly expensive… and it sells well.
We went to Dana and they sold three immediately. The draw is immediate and the sale quickly follows. It probably cost them 1 dollar or less to make it, but they made a profit of about $20.
My computer is currently broken .. so no pictures for a bit. So I would like to take this time to talk politics.
A quick aside: I currently read the New York Times, but my time has grown tremendously as of late and I’ll be reading other (maybe less liberal news sources) soon. Here is the article that sparked this thought: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/world/middleeast/15mideast.html?bl
Before coming to the Middle East, I would have read this article without much intensive thought and followed my liberal proclivities to quickly agree with the article. However, the more time I spend in the Middle East the more I see the power and importance of statements. Like when Condoleezza Rice declared in Jerusalem while on the topic of peace, “The prolonged experience of deprivation and humiliation can radicalize even normal people.”
My Jordanian host father is a sweet 60 something year old man. He is a big believer of human rights - whether that person reads the Torah, Bible or Qu’ran. He can dissociate a government from its peoples and its book.
He likes to joke and poke fun. And he likes to force me to wash my clothes and give him an occasional back rub. He can teach me Arabic without judging me too harshly and he believes in a benevolent higher power. In short, he lives and tells me the story of the ordinary Arab man. And he speaks these volumes well.
Yet, there is another side to this balding man with a hopeless comb-over. He is a product of conflict. He left a relatively comfortable life in Nabulus at the onset of the 1967 June War and traveled to Kuwait. There he made a decent life fixing other’s electrical problems. But he was forced to move again in 1990 due to Saddam’s advances into Kuwait.
He now lives in Amman, unemployed at age 60 something and on the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum, and yet somehow full of life and energy. Especially when it is against Israel. And especially when he shouts expletives at the television screen against the Israeli government during periods of high political stress (re: the recent perceived attacks against Al-Aqsa mosque, the heritage sites, the recent Israeli bombings in Gaza, etc).
Now of course it is strange and slightly race-based when he directs his anger at Israel and not on Iraq, though both have had very powerful effects on the direct of his life. But, he still considers Nabulus, located in the West Bank, his home. A home that he can never visit or return to as long as the impasse of the status quo remains.
I’m not saying that his life is the sole outcome of the Zionists, Israel’s invasion and occupation or interference from the Western powers. That would make him nothing more than a mindless/powerless doll, strung along the whims of Western puppeteers… you should never describe men as such. Rather, he found himself stuck and buffaloed into situations he never imagined himself in. And for whatever reasons, correct or not, he has directed his anger at the Israeli government and its actions at large (aka its establishment). He hated their actions enough to join the fight against them… as “freedom fighter/terrorist” with the Palestinian fedayeens.
While difficult to ascertain, I am almost completely sure that he, as a child, did not imagine himself ever labeled as a terrorist by anyone. He grew up learning a religion that stresses peace, with a religion whose basis and history is filled with peace, but his realized life pushed him in another direction.
Just give this a thought before you try to oversimplify this region. You know it takes a lot for a person to abandon what they have and strap a bomb on themselves. Middle Eastern politics isn’t a game and Health Care looks like shit when you compare it to the 300 million Arabs whose politics are tied directly to the United States and its decisions. When Obama made his speech in Cairo you bet your ass Arabs, from big leaders to my host father, were glued to the television… listening to every word from the man who would dictate the future of this region.
Why is this region so stressful..?
On Foreign Music:
Babel-tongue music makes its way to me occassionally
And within those occasions, I sometimes like what I hear
And once in a few times, I’ll maybe listen to it a few hundred/kill the song times
Here is Nelly Furtado’s on its death bed… lets love it hard.
On Celebrations:
D’ja know that the Happy Birthday song is sung in 37 languages with the same tune?
According to Wiki anyways… My main source of “knowledge” for anything.
On Garbage:
For those who are interested in green technology, here is an interesting little movement happening in Europe: Waste-to-Energy power plants (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/science/earth/13trash.html?)
The one thing that worries me about green technology is the desperate need to invest. We need to invest now for the future; we need to invest so that these technologies become efficient/cheap/politically acceptable enough to mass produce them. But had every building invested five years ago into solar panels we would all be in financial messes caused by the green bubbles (re: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/business/energy-environment/09solar.html). If the world is moved to quickly to accept the green industry, we will only be moving from one inefficient energy source to another… while losing billions of dollars in the process. But if we don’t move quickly enough, we only have ourselves to blame 20 years in the future when oil is $200 a barrel and we all have sun spots from an over bearing sun… that and wrinkles. Leathery ones. It’s all a very delicate line to toe.
And quickly, heres a fun little thought: On an average individual level, the worlds poor are those most likely to pollute/suffer from high energy costs yet … they are also the ones most likely to benefit from recycling/cheaper energy. It is the rich who are able to spend lavishly on solar panels/geothermal heating/waste-to-recycle/miniature water systems and it is the rich who benefit the most.
