Word Box!

A friend of mine sent me a quiz called "what slanguage do you speak?" The quiz was lame, so I will not post my answers here, but one question asked me to identify what a timbit is. I got a kick out of that, and it reminded me to open the word box!The word box will be open until Monday, February 12, 2007.

Happy Wording!

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Part 1: The Words

Because this post is crazy long, I am going to break it up into two parts.

Part 1: The Words

This week’s entries:

Concomitant
adj - accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way
noun - something that accompanies or is collaterally connected with something else; existing or occuring at the same time

Disingenuousness
noun - the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor
Disingenuous
adj.-not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
adj - pretending to be unaware or unsophisticated; faux-naïf.

Inculcate
*To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill
*To teach others by frequent instruction or repetition; indoctrinate

Meme
noun - an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.
tidbit- Comes from the Greek word “mimema” for something imitated
tidbit - Dawkins introduced this term in is 1976 publication The Selfish Gene. You can read about more here and here.
**Memes can be considered the unit of cultural evolution. Ideas can evolve similar to biological evolution. Some ideas survive better than others; ideas can mutate through, and two ideas can recombine toproduce a new idea involving elements of each parent idea.
**The term is often used in the phrase "meme complex" to mean a group of mutually supporting memes that form an organized belief system (religion). However, "meme"is often misused to mean "meme complex".

Meta
noun - something with refers to itself, esp. in self-parodying manner
adj - self-referential; referring to itself or its characteristics, esp. as a parody; about
prefix - one level of description higher w/ many applications, such as: later in time, at a later stage of development, change, alternation, more comprehensive, at a higher state of development, and/or derivative related to chemical substance.
noun - A river in northeast Colombia flowing partially along the boarder with Venezuela.
noun - A city in Missouri

Morpheme
noun - A meaningful linguistic unit consisting of a word, such as man, or a word element, such as -ed in walked , that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts

Timbit
noun - Candadian bit-sized doughnut balls (or doughnut holes as they are called in the midwest or munchkins at Dunkin’ Donuts).
tidbit - They are sold at the Tim Hortons restaurant chain, and "Timbits" has become the generic name for doughnut balls sold all over Canda (like Kleenex for tissue).
tidbit -A Timbit is supposedly made from the part of a full doughnut that is cut out to make the doughnut's hole, but in fact they are made from separate balls of dough.
tidbit-introduced in 1976.