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).
But that's just my point! You she obeys! She obeys you! There's obeying going on right under my nose!
Wash ,'War Stories'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
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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 useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
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 useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
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.