Word of the…uh…. whatever.
William S. Burroughs is one of my all time favorite authors. However, I havn’t read anything by him in a few years. I decided to change that last night and unfortunately I began to feel redicuiously unschooled. It could be that it was 1am and I was exhausted, but it could also be that I’ve taken to reading mostly crappy mind candy for way too long.
So i’m going to start words of the day… or whenever I feel like doing them. I admit my lexicon isn’t as large as it could be, so no making fun if you learned these words before you left elementary school.
So the official first word of the whatever is:
dilettante
\DIL-uh-tont; dil-uh-TONT; dil-uh-TON-tee; -TANT; -TAN-tee\,
noun:
1. An amateur or dabbler; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge sporadically, superficially, or for amusement only.
2. An admirer or lover of the fine arts.adjective:
1. Of or characteristic of a dilettante; amateurish.
Now class, please use this word in a sentence. 
September 14th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
How about this one (courtesy of http://www.farcicaldilettante.com):
You know you’re a dilettante when you own more than five CDs in each of the following categories: 1. Dead white man’s music (Classical, opera, chant, etc.) 2. Not quite as dead and not quite as white man’s music (Folk, Musicals, Big Band) 3. Dead black man’s music (jazz, ragtime, etc.) 4. Popular music (Rap, R&B, reggae, Rock and Roll). Subtract points if you own any Country. At all. And don’t try to get all sneaky and call it Western.
And I’d add – double all your points if you own Paris Hilton’s CD – now there’s a dilettante
September 15th, 2006 at 10:06 am
Paris Match magazine said last week, “Monsieur Lemur aime le can-can a Le Moulin Rouge. Il est une dillettante!”
September 15th, 2006 at 10:09 am
Haha! I love both of those!