Never heard or read or used the word Desultory that I recall, had no idea of pronunciation or meaning.
I learned it from Simon and Garfunkle's A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission).
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
P.M. Marc - Mar 01, 2023 11:09:14 am PST #20929 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Kate P. - Mar 01, 2023 11:14:55 am PST #20930 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
PMM, that's what "desultory" always makes me think of too!
-t - Mar 01, 2023 11:24:20 am PST #20931 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I never knew the title of that song. In fact, I might not have known it was Simon and Garfunkel, which does seem like a thing I should know.
It is still bugging me that I can't remember what song archipelago is in. I can almost hear the line, but not enough to identify anything and no more than that.
Dana - Mar 01, 2023 11:28:59 am PST #20932 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Damn, I haven't heard that song since...probably since I moved out, because it was on a record album my parents had.
EpicTangent - Mar 01, 2023 1:04:27 pm PST #20933 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Turns out I'm also pronouncing desultory wrong - but I'm certain I've heard it pronounced that way before! So I think it's just going to be like "satiety" in that I'm going to choose to believe that my pronunciation is correct because the real pronunciation is dumb.
Calli - Mar 01, 2023 1:36:49 pm PST #20934 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Add me to the list of people pronouncing desultory wrong. If enough of us are pronouncing it wrong, then I think we get to declare our version a regional dialect.
meara - Mar 01, 2023 1:55:55 pm PST #20935 of 30000
Um, if satiety is suh-TIE-ety, why do we pronounce satiated and say-she-ated??
Dana - Mar 01, 2023 2:13:45 pm PST #20936 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I was so sure that I knew how to pronounce satiety that I didn't look it up, and I now see that pride goeth before the fall.
Beverly - Mar 01, 2023 2:18:24 pm PST #20937 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Desultorily. De-sul-TOR-i-ly.
I'm startled by British characters saying Ruhmember and Pruhvarication. Also LaBORatory and AluMINium.
Cass - Mar 01, 2023 3:09:14 pm PST #20938 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I was so sure that I knew how to pronounce satiety that I didn't look it up, and I now see that pride goeth before the fall.
Not the only one with tattered pride on this one. I'm right there with you.