This week we continue our discussion of health care. Unfortunately, we all need to know a whole lot of complicated and confusing terms to get through our current health care debate.
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This week’s calendar entry is “tradegy/tragedy.”
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This week, and in the coming weeks, we will discuss the vocabulary of health care. Unfortunately, we all need to know a whole lot of complicated and confusing terms to get through our current health care debate.
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This week’s calendar entry is “boost in the arm/shot in the arm.”
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The ongoing debate on health care here in the US takes for granted that we understand deductible, co-pay, co-insurance, premium, out-of-pocket limits, and many other often-confusing terms. Since that isn’t always the case, we’ll be discussing the language of health care in the coming weeks.
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This week’s calendar entry is “anecdote/antidote.”
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Finally, after three weeks dwelling on words and expressions about idiocy, we turn our attention to some words that say smart.
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This week’s calendar entry is “genius.”
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We’ve been talking about insults to the intelligence, and this week we conclude our discussion of adjectives.
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This week’s calendar entry is “gull/gall.”
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From John Skelton’s 1528 volume entitled “Replycacion agaynst Certayne Yong Scolers”:
As touchyng the Tetrycall [severe] Theologisacion of these demy-diuines and Stoicall studiantes and frisca-ioly yonkerkyns … . moche better bayned [banned?] than brayned basked and bathed in their wylde burblyng and boyling blode Feruently reboyled with the infatuate flames of their rechelesse youthe and wytlesse wontonnesse enbrased and enterlased with a … moche fantasticall frenesy of their insensate sensualyte.
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