The word of the day1 for February 26, 2007 is “caustic” — adjective 1 : capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : CORROSIVE. 2 : marked by incisive sarcasm. 3 : relating to or being the surface or curve of a caustic.
Yesterday I was involved in a series of e-mails asking for help from another group. This group makes changes to the same drawings we use, and there is a system to track these changes so we don’t trip over one another. The other group apparently has more rigid rules about who can do input to this system. When the input person doesn’t enter the information on their changes, we end up doing our work twice to straighten out the change numbers.
Anyway, because I was writing scathing messages all day yesterday, I was not up to getting out the Word of the Day. Today you will get two to compensate.
The quote2 for today is from
ATTRIBUTION: Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), Autobiography, ch. 10 (1883):
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little—or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
;^) Jan
1 The definition is from either Merriam-Webster Online, 10th Edition or The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition and is used by permission.
2 The quote is from either Bartleby: Great Books on Line or The Quotation Pages and is used by permission.
P.S.: Comments and word requests are welcome.
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