Thursday, July 31, 2008

What is the meaning of this?


"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

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