DILLIGAF?*

Gold cherry
Poem of the week

By Ewan

Mon, 28 Dec 2020
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10 comments
 

If my feed could see me now,

care free, free of care,

careless, without any -pathies,

sym or em

though psycho and socio

may just peep through

the keyboard warrior’s shield

of anonymity.

 

Out there, see, I’m out there

off beam, on point – ha -

en-pointe, balancing the bile

with belief

becoming more bigotry

with each upper-

case cri-de-con cascading,

crazing the screen.

 

Well does it?

Certificate PG
Poem
Days Like These
Miscellaneous

Comments

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

I have seen that word a million times over the years and it's only just now that I've realised what it stands for!

 

Submitted by marandina on

Ah... keyboard warriors everywhere... wherever you can't look

 

Submitted by littleditty on

Arseholes...like opinions, we've all got one. I have learned a new word -can I make it, a type- a dilligaffer - ? Enjoyed :)

 

Submitted by Ewan on

back-formation is fun! I used to use morphology in TEFL classes when I lived in Spain. I'd ask students to make up an imaginary one syllable word, and then get them to form other words out of it. Or we'd use a Spanish slang-word "friqui" (pronounced "freaky"), for example - it means geek or nerd - then we'd make words up formed from the root. Like "friqui-ness", friqui-dom or friqui-ous-ly. Then I'd tell them about the false-friend "freak" and see what they came up with. It was the only time anyone enjoyed using a dictionary.

Right, bored you enough now. Thanks for reading and commenting!

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Submitted by Mark Burrow on

Another acronym. I missed this one and now it's in my mindhole! 

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day!

Please share/retweet if you also learned a new word smiley

 

Submitted by Ewan on

Thank you. Most unexpected.
I love the way DILLIGAF's pronounceable in the way so many of such things aren't.
I always hear it in an Aussie accent, mind.

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Submitted by airyfairy on

Ha!  I never knew what this meant, either - now I do, I think it may be very useful.  I wish it had been in my repertoire when I was still working.

Submitted by Ewan on

word in any hubular activity, Jane!

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Submitted by airyfairy on

This is our Poem of the Week!  Congratulations!