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Today's the Day!
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Anthology Stories are due today! Get those final touches done on your story and send it to me by midnight, EST tonight so I can get it assigned to a Proof Team member! There are lots of burning questions... Did we break the 20 story barrier? Who participated? How many stories did they write? When will the stories go live? Which theme has more stories? Of course, I'm not going to answer any of them now You'll have to wait and anticipate!- 1 comment
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In storytelling, perfidious—meaning untrustworthy, deceitful, or deliberately faithless—is a powerful narrative engine. It describes characters who actively violate a shared bond of trust, such as a friend, ally, or leader who turns traitor. The literary importance of perfidious elements can be grouped into several key narrative functions: Driving the Plot and Conflict: The Inciting Incident: A perfidious act often serves as the catalyst that kicks off the entire story. A s -
Perfidious comes from the Latin adjective perfidiosus (meaning treacherous or faithlessness), derived from perfidia (faithlessness) and perfidus (faithless). It combines the prefix per- (meaning "through" or, in this destructive sense, "to ill effect" / "away from the bad") with fides or fidem, meaning "faith," "trust," or "fidelity". Literally, it describes breaking faith or deceiving through trust. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the adjective perfidious was first used in E
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Pernicious. I knew a lawyer who could use Most Perfidious as an honorific. -
Just the facts: PERFIDIOUS Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster PERFIDIOUS Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus PERFIDY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster PERFIDIOUS Synonyms: 687 Similar Words & Phrases perfidious Perfidious is an adjective that means deliberately faithless, treacherous, or deceitful. Definition Pronunciation: /pərˈfɪdiəs/ (per-FID-e -
Just the facts: I gave up trying to use a dictionary for today's, Word of the Day. The Portuguese word "saudade" describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for something or someone absent, often with the bittersweet knowledge that the object of longing might never return. While often considered untranslatable, it can be approximated by concepts like yearning, missing, or bittersweet nostalgia. The Nuance of Saudade More than just missing: Saudade is
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Okay you guys, this is all going downhill for me, pretty fast. I don't even want to type the word. Gibberish comes to mind. So I will end this with: gobbledygook- Gobbledygook is confusing, long-winded, or overly technical language that is hard for regular people to understand. No offense is meant to any of our Portuguese writers/readers. The word "saudade" in Portuguese is often considered unique due to the depth of emotion and specificity it convey
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I hesitated at typing saudade. Inevitably predictive text will dump out saudade biscuits.
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Saudade is a deep, bittersweet emotional state of nostalgic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves, carrying a melancholy joy for what is gone. In storytelling, saudade is important because it gives narratives emotional depth, transforming simple regret into a profound exploration of human connection. Why Saudade Matters in Narrative: The Presence of Absence: It allows writers to make a missing person, a lost era, or an unattainable dream feel vividly a
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The word saudade comes from the Latin word sōlitās, which means "loneliness" or "solitude". The Latin root sōlitātem (solitude) first evolved into archaic forms of Old Galician-Portuguese like soidade, soedade, or suidade by the 13th century. Over time, these older forms transformed into saudade. Linguists note this irregular phonetic change was heavily influenced by association with the verb saudar (to greet or wish good health) and related terms. According to the Oxford English Diction
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