"What's your blog title mean?" might be the millennial's version of "What's your sign?"....
- So, Dangling Invective... What the hell does that mean? It's pretty much gibberish, but it sounds intellectual. And that's the only thing that matters.
- From Merrian-Webster:
- Main Entry:
- dan·gle
- Pronunciation:
- \ˈdaŋ-gəl\
- Function:
- verb
- Inflected Form(s):
- dan·gled; dan·gling \-g(ə-)liŋ\
- Etymology:
- probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Danish dangle to dangle
- Date:
- 1565
- ...
- 3: to occur in a sentence without having a normally expected syntactic relation to the rest of the sentence (as climbing in “Climbing the mountain the cabin came into view”) dangling participle> dangling modifier>
- Main Entry:
- invective
- Pronunciation:
- \in-ˈvek-tiv\
- Function:
- noun
- Date:
- 1523
1 : an abusive expression or speech
2 : insulting or abusive language
2 : insulting or abusive language
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