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Post by Evelyn on Jan 15, 2010 3:12:24 GMT -5
First, I'm stirring the pot mostly just because I sometimes get intrigued by words and language, and how they work and what we think of them and all that kinda stuff. My apologies in advance if my stirring raises any unpleasantness for anyone. My came-with-the-computer thesaurus program gives the folowing synomyms for l*zy: idle, indolent, slothful, work-shy, shiftless, inactive, sluggish, lethargic; remiss, negligent, slack, lax, lackadaisical. If used in the sentence "Evelyn, your apartment is a mess because you are ____," I would find the majority of these words hotly offensive. "Idle," "inactive," "slack," or "lax" I would probably find less offensive than most because I would think the speaker was misusing them somewhat. "Work-shy" would be interesting because I've never heard the term before. And I would laugh out loud at "lackadaisical" - I think of "lackadaisical" as an attitude, and one that I have aspired for most of my life. But "indolent, slothful, shiftless, sluggish, lethargic, remiss," or "negligent," along with "l-zy," I would consider "Fightin' Words;" and I would promptly return a hotly offensive verbal fight (unless, of course, I were too d*mned tired). My same thesaurus gives synonyms for the word "laze" as: relax, unwind, idle, do nothing, loaf (around/about), lounge (around/about), loll (around/about), lie (around/about), take it easy, hang around, veg (out), bum (around)I would be more happy for any of those words to be used to finish the sentence "Evelyn, it sure is nice to be invited over to your lovely, pleasant Level-0 apartment to _____."
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