Monday, July 02 2001

This American Life : Kid Logic

I've been living with a two-year old for the last week and a half and, I have to tell you, it's pretty fun teaching them to say things like "Go Habs,go!", "idle banter" and "the chattering classes" Te thathat-hing psspessesss!. Apologies to Caterina for that last one but, frankly, she deserves it for calling free-coffee cards loyalty cards. If that's loyalty, we're all doomed.

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is satiety

| source : web1913 | Satiety \Sa*ti"e*ty\, n. [L. satietas, from satis, sat, enough: cf. F. sati['e]t['e].] The state of being satiated or glutted; fullness of gratification, either of the appetite or of any sensual desire; fullness beyond desire; an excess of gratification which excites wearisomeness or loathing; repletion; satiation. In all pleasures there is satiety. --Hakewill. But thy words, with grace divine Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety. --Milton. Syn: Repletion; satiation; surfeit; cloyment. | source : wn | satiety n : the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more [syn: {repletion}, {satiation}] | source : devils | SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

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