Wednesday, March 27, 2013

prolepsis \proh-LEP-sis\, noun:

1. Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
2. the assigning of a person, event, etc., to a period earlier than the actual one; the representation of something in the future as if it already existed or had occurred; prochronism.
3. the use of a descriptive word in anticipation of its becoming applicable.
4. a fundamental conception or assumption in Epicureanism or Stoicism arising spontaneously in the mind without conscious reflection; thought provoked by sense perception.
5. Pathology. the return of an attack of a periodic disease or of a paroxysm before the expected time or at progressively shorter intervals.

Prolepsis came to English in the mid-1400s from the Ancient Greek prolambanein literally meaning "to take before."

blogosfear

• Fear of being talked about or becoming a character in someone's blog.

When she screwed her friend, she was overwhelmed with blogosfear thinking her criminality would be published the next day in his very popular blog.

Trivia

What was the subtitle of the 2009 sequel to the Alvin and the Chipmunkskiddie flick?

• The Squeakquel.

History

• Telephone: the first long-distance call was made from Boston to New York (1884)
• Nikita Khrushchev: became prime minister of the Soviet Union (1958)
• Good Friday Earthquake: North America's most powerful earthquake struck Alaska, measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale; it killed over 100 and triggered devastating tsunamis (1964)
• Tenerife crash: the world's worst aviation disaster took place when two 747 airliners collided on Tenerife, Canary Islands (1977)
• Viagra: was approved by the FDA for erectile dysfunction (1998)

Birthdays

• Louis XVII 1785
• Alfred Vigny 1797
• Nathaniel Currier 1813
• William Conrad Rontgen 1845
• Sir Henry Royce 1863
• Patty Smith Hill 1868
• Edward Steichen 1879
• Thorne Smith 1892
• Gloria Swanson 1899
• James Callaghan 1912 - British prime minister
• Snooky Lanson 1914
• Richard Denning 1914
• Robert "Junior" Lockwood 1915 - Blues guitarist
• Richard Hayman 1920
• Sarah Vaughan 1924
• Harold Nicholas 1924
• Anthony Lewis 1927 - Newspaper columnist
• Burt Collins 1931
• David Janssen 1931
• Arthur Mitchell 1934 - Dance company director
• Julian Glover 1935 - Actor
• Jerry Lacy 1936 - Actor
• Judy Carne 1939
• Cale Yarborough 1939
• Austin Pendleton 1940 - Actor
• Michael York 1942 - Actor
• Tom Sullivan 1947
• Tony Banks 1950 - Musician (Genesis)
• Maria Schneider 1952 - Actress
• Annemarie Moser-Proell 1953
• Andrew Farris 1959 - Musician (INXS)
• Xuxa (Maria da Graça Meneghel) 1963 - Singer, actress
• Quentin Tarantino 1963 - hack director
• Derrick McKenzie 1964 - Musician (Jamiroquai)
• Talisa Soto 1967 - Actress
• Pauley Perrette 1969 - Actress
• Mariah Carey 1970 - Singer
• Elizabeth Mitchell (Elizabeth Joanna Robertson) 1970 - Actress ("Lost", "V")
• Brendan Hill 1970 - Musician (Blues Travelers)
• Nathan Fillion 1971 - Actore ("Firefly")
• Fergie (Stacy Ann Ferguson) 1975 - Singer (Black Eyed Peas)
• Emily Ann Lloyd 1983 - Actress
• Brenda Song 1988 - Actress
• Taylor Atelian 1995 - Actress ("According to Jim")