Usage Rantlet:

[azurelunatic]

adieu: French for "goodbye". Literally, "Go with God". Example: I bid you all adieu.

ado: from Middle English. "Fussy bustling excitement, time-wasting bother over trivial details, trouble, difficulty." [source] Examples: Much ado about nothing, without further ado, here is your host.

Comments

[yaksha42.livejournal.com]

Did I do that again? :-p

[azurelunatic]

Not aimed at you this time, dear.

[merlyn-magick.livejournal.com]

Actually, to use "adieu" in place of "ado" in the statement "Without further adieu" is correct when adieu is used as a segway into a different train of thought. "Ado" implies hustle and bustle, where "adieu" literally translated means "leave." So, when using the statement "without further adieu", what is really being said is "without further leave"(of thought in most cases.)

At least, that's the way it was taught to me, so it stuck :P

[azurelunatic]

Ah.

I am highly uncertain that the teaching was correct.

[merlyn-magick.livejournal.com]

Change "literally" to loosely. Damn, I hate it when I do that.

[azurelunatic]

I haven't the foggiest how adieu translates to "leave", even loosely; it's what you say when you're leaving, but I would only, ever, use it in place of goodbye, farewell, or the like.

[merlyn-magick.livejournal.com]

In french, if you are going to say goodbye or farewell, dire adieu (http://dictionaries.travlang.com/FrenchEnglish/dict.cgi?query=leave&max=50) is what you would say. Ergo my loose translation of the word to mean "to take leave of."

Tomatoe, tomato - it's all the same :P

It doesn't matter though, my writing is that of a crackhead today, sorry.

**Goes to bury head in sand**

[azurelunatic]

"Leave" is an interesting one. It's got at least two meanings historically related to departure.

The most common one these days, "I leave", means "I depart".

The more elegant, older one, "I take my leave of you", means, "I take from you permission for me to go now." "Leave" could be used in the permission sense, "Darkside gave me his leave to sleep with ralmathon."

Words are fun.

[merlyn-magick.livejournal.com]

Yeah, words are fun :P Thanks for the pseudo-intellectual debate!

I'll bet you love Chomsky (http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/index.cfm). Perhaps linguistics is in your future?

[azurelunatic]

I'm probably going to wind up in computer documentation somewhere, since I love both computers and writing...

Ph33r me.

Nooooooooo!! Don't do it!!!

[dragontdc.livejournal.com]

Technical writing is EVIL! It will suck your sould dry and leave your withered husk slaving over a keyboard at midnight.

So says one whose title is

Sr. Technical Writer
XxxxXxxxxxxxx Corporation

Re: Nooooooooo!! Don't do it!!!

[azurelunatic]

Uh-oh.

Re: Nooooooooo!! Don't do it!!!

[dragontdc.livejournal.com]

If you really want to do it, though, I can give you tips on how to not go crazy in the process.

Re: Nooooooooo!! Don't do it!!!

[azurelunatic]

We'll see where I am after I leave school.

[azurelunatic]

Also: "segway": scooter-thing.
Segue: the switch from one thing to another.

I should have been an English major...

[merlyn-magick.livejournal.com]

Or an editor....

[azurelunatic]

That, too.

A-doo-wah-doo

[dragontdc.livejournal.com]

Adieu, I do a Dew ado.

Trans: Goodbye, I must make a Mt. Dew commercial.

Re: A-doo-wah-doo

[azurelunatic]

*snerk*

[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's one of my pet peeves. :D

[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

...along with "mute point". I got into it with one of my rommies over that second one. I made him look it up.

[azurelunatic]

What's wrong with a point that cannot speak for itself?

Re:

[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

Heh. Nothing, as long you don't really mean "moot point".

[azurelunatic]

Well, there's a distinct difference.

The one can't speak up for itself, and the other, it's pointless to speak up about.

[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

Um, make that word "roomies", not "rommies".