Firefly expands one's vocabulary.
Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--sanguine
Def: 1. Cheerfully optimistic or confident. 2. Having a healthy reddish color. 3. Blood-red.
From: Barbara Jungbauer (barbaraj probuiltam.com)
For eight or so years now, I've not been able to hear the word 'sanguine' without thinking of this exchange in my very favorite program of all time, a short-lived science-fiction, western, adventure, comedy program called, "Firefly".
Zoë: You sanguine about the kinda reception we're apt to receive on an Alliance ship, Captain?
Mal: Absolutely. What's "sanguine" mean?
Zoë: Sanguine. Hopeful. Plus, point of interest, it also means "bloody".
Mal: Well, that pretty much covers all the options, don't it?
June 22 2009
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Sunfire | June 22, 19:51 CET
On second thought, one or two are cute, an entire dictionary is just sick.
Meanwhile, I could use the word AWESOME in an example sentence to describe the time I had at Slay-A-Thon this past weekend here in sunny Chicago. (But I'm sure you were there or at the very least, know how to use the word awesome.
ETA grammar
[ edited by alexreager on 2009-06-22 20:26 ]
alexreager | June 22, 19:57 CET
Jobo | June 22, 20:22 CET
Zoë: What? And risk my new ship?
VaughnOfTheDead | June 22, 20:58 CET
Invisible Green | June 23, 02:19 CET
Vague That Up | June 23, 04:08 CET
Glad my fellow Browncoats also read A.W.A.D.
I received about a dozen emails from around the world thanking me for the post - both Browncoats and the uninitiated enjoyed the reference. I think we might have some recruiting happening.
Of course, when I responded to each email, I encouraged them to attend a CSTS event.
Several years ago, I posted to A.W.A.D about the word 'ait' and it actually made Anu's first book. That made me grin.
BarbaraJ aka
Knibblet the Magnificent
knibblet | June 23, 21:18 CET
floofypooh | June 23, 22:28 CET