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apologia - Word of the Day - Tue Dec 13, 2022


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apologia - (noun) - a defense especially of one's opinions, position, or actions

80s 1980s GIF

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There is absolutely no acceptable apologia available for the propaganda that spews forth from urinalists.

 

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I love the word urinalists.  It sounds like a young Spanish speaking student learning English.  Your sense of humor is a wicked sharp sword.

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While apologia and apology look similar, they sourced along different paths and diverge in meaning.

Apologia came directly from Latin and apology through French.

Apology involves admission of fault or wrongdoing and apologia is a defense of what was done.

The most common apologia currently is the blame someone else ploy. A friend's father must have said it hundreds of times. "It wasn't on my side."

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1 hour ago, drpaladin said:

While apologia and apology look similar, they sourced along different paths and diverge in meaning.

Apologia came directly from Latin and apology through French.

Apology involves admission of fault or wrongdoing and apologia is a defense of what was done.

The most common apologia currently is the blame someone else ploy. A friend's father must have said it hundreds of times. "It wasn't on my side."

That's most likely due to the fact that French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian all evolved from Latin, since those areas were all part of the Roman Empire.  English is basically a Germanic language, but it has adapted many words from other languages over time.  

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52 minutes ago, Bill W said:

That's most likely due to the fact that French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian all evolved from Latin, since those areas were all part of the Roman Empire.  English is basically a Germanic language, but it has adapted many words from other languages over time.  

Britain was also part of the Roman Empire for some 367 years.

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4 hours ago, drpaladin said:

Britain was also part of the Roman Empire for some 367 years.

Yes, they were, but their language was mostly affected by the conquest by the Normans and the Anglo-Saxons, although they used some Latin as well. 

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If memory serves me correctly, the meme Myr used for this is from the 1980s Apple commercial loosely based on the novel 1984

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