Illustrative - acting or serving as an illistration
Ensorcellment - (noun) enchanter, bewhitcher
Luddite - one who opposes technical or technological change. Most specifically, any of group of British workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery in a belief that such amchinery would dimish employment.
Wow - Great words this week! I don't hardly know how to pick because I love them all! But pick I will.
The word of the week is:
luddite
- Luddite can be used as a noun or an adjective.
- The word's orgins might be from Ned Ludd who was an 18th century Leicestershire workman who destroyed machinary.
- When Henry walked into the office, he saw that a luddite had been there. All the computers had been smashed and put in trashcans; only pen and paper sat in their place.
7 comments:
Awesome word, awesome origin. Hats off to you for selecting it and to fishfrog for submitting it.
That's two weeks in a row that my word was picked. I rule!
This sucks! You people are conspiring against me! BTW I really like the word consortium. Its fun say.
Just wait. I found the winner last night in the book I'm reading. Fishfrog, you are going down.
FishFrog I would not let this go to your head to much. For all we know the monkey is the one who submitted the word.
If it helps take fishfrog down, I will take some of the credit for "luddite." Fishfrog and I were in waiting for tax class to start when we got to talking about warmfuzzy's blog. He said he thought that she drew her little pictures using a computer program. I said I thought she drew them by hand, "because she's a bit of a luddite." Then he decided to submit the word.
I knew there was a conspiracy...
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