Jejune is quite rare in English, especially non-catechrestically.
> b. Puerile, childish; also, naïve. ¶ This use may owe its origin to the mistaken belief that the word is connected with L. juvenis young (comp. junior), or F. jeune young.
> 2. Deficient in nourishing or substantial (physical) qualities; thin, attenuated, scanty; meagre, unsatisfying; (of land) poor, barren.
That is the normal one.
Not the kitty one.
> 3. a. Unsatisfying to the mind or soul; dull, flat, insipid, bald, dry, uninteresting; meagre, scanty, thin, poor; wanting in substance or solidity. Said of thought, feeling, action, etc., and esp. of speech or writing; also transf. of the speaker or writer. (The prevailing sense.)
Here are the catachrestic cites, which are no longer considered such:
1898 G. B. Shaw Arms & Man ii. 29 ― His jejune credulity as to the absolute value of his concepts. 1975 Economist 22 Nov. 14/1 ― Is anybody··now so jejune as not to realise that the state ownership of the deadweight of present nationalised industries must prevent Labour governments from being able to follow··their social policies. 1982 N.Y. Times Mag. 8 Aug. 10 ― Other people··write in to correct you if you define the word··‘jejune’ as ‘childish’. 1982 M. Howard Eppie (1983) xxxiii. 271 ― Mother seemed jejune, at times, with her enthusiasms and her sense of mission.
The NYTM one is amusing.
I think of jejune as insipid.
I didn’t know its origin though.
@Cerberus No, it is a very exotic word for most native speakers. I would be surprised if one in a thousand knew it.
Yeah, I know what HE would want to do. There's a combined fun park and swimming pool complex about 3.5 hours drive from here. He would want us to just spend every day there.
I don't know whether I have the energy though. I am getting old. And I don't like swimming pools very much.
We have no formal agreement as yet. Our separation is very new. But I can see us getting the point of having to get lawyers involved. She basically doesn't trust me around him.
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I had a friend who went off the interstate in Boston because of black ice. She was fine; she spun 180 degrees and landed gently in the breakdown lane facing the wrong way. She stood there for what she said felt like hours, watching cars sail over the guardrail or flip upside down and crash into each other.
That was a few years ago. She takes the T to work now.
She said the cop that finally came over to her was pissed and asked her why she was sitting there. She told him she couldn't get her car started but that she would very much like to go somewhere else.
I served on a jury in a vehicular homicide case in which the defendant's car went into the guardrail, and the shoulder (BrE: the verge) right in front of the guardrail was sloped up, so her car vaulted over the rail and flipped over onto a car in one of the oncoming lanes.
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Barry: Okay, whatever. Tell Laura I Love Her. That would bring the house down - Laura's Mom could sing it. You know what I'd want? One Step Beyond by Madness. And, uh, You Can't Always Get What You Want. Dick: No. Immediate disqualification because of its involvement with The Big Chill. Barry: Oh God. You're right!
> What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?
Also, great scene:
Dick: I guess it looks as if you're reorganizing your records. What is this though? Chronological? Rob: No... Dick: Not alphabetical... Rob: Nope... Dick: What? Rob: Autobiographical. Dick: No fucking way.
I still remember that scene from the Simpsons, where Lisa's watching a DVD commentary for the Postman and it just goes like "I'm... I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. I really am."
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Buddhas are people who love everything. And I don't think of other definitions.
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