{"id":540,"date":"2009-01-22T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2009-01-22T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T16:00:01","slug":"articulaction-if-were-going-to-change-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"Articulaction: If we&#8217;re going to change the world&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To try to change the world by turning words into actions. <em>n.<\/em> A person who carries the hopes and dreams of the world on their shoulders.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/obama.gif\" alt=\"If we're going to change the world...\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Articulaction<\/strong>:  \/<em>\u00c3\u00a4rtiky\u00c9\u2122laksh\u00c9\u2122n<\/em>\/ A great speech is wonderful but now it&#8217;s time to stand back and watch the articulaction. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  articulation (the action of putting into words an idea or feeling of a specified type) + Action (the fact or process of doing something) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Articulaction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=silveryaspen\">silveryaspen<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-01-20: 13:38:00<\/em> <br \/>Great sentence.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-01-20: 22:21:00<\/em> <br \/>Amen!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Facilichatter<\/strong>:  \/<em>Fa sil i chat er <\/em>\/ You have to change only one letter in worD, to make it worK.  In reality, it takes a lot more than that!  Perhaps the most difficult task, any politician or employer faces, is using words to motivate others to take action, to do the hard work, and the right work.  Sadly, such facilichatter remains a dream. People want money for their labor, and other tangible rewards, as well as, the right chatting up! We are all beautifuldreamers, for we all, carry hopes and dreams for a better world &#8230; and most people work to make them happen. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  FACILITATOR, CHATTER.  Facilitator &#8211; somebody enabling something to happen.  Chatter &#8211; utter words, especially words that will inspire sombody to make something happen.  \/\/\/  BEAUTIFULDREAMER is an eponym for any person who hopes and dreams of a better world.  Beautful Dreamer is also the title of a song.  The lyrics are in comments below.<br \/>\n <em>Created by:<\/em> silveryaspen.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Facilichatter:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=silveryaspen\">silveryaspen<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-01-20: 01:34:00<\/em> <br \/>Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,<br \/>\nStarlight and dew drops are waiting for thee;<br \/>\nSounds of the rude world heard in the day,<br \/>\nLull&#8217;d by the moonlight have all pass&#8217;d a way!<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song,<br \/>\nList while I woo thee with soft melody;<br \/>\nGone are the cares of life&#8217;s busy throng.<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!<br \/>\nBeautiful dreamer, awake unto me!<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful dreamer, out on the sea,<br \/>\nMermaids are chanting the wild lorelie,<br \/>\nOver the streamlet vapours are borne,<br \/>\nWaiting to fade at the bright coming morn.<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful dreamer, beam on my heart,<br \/>\nE&#8217;en as the morn on the streamlet and sea;<br \/>\nThen will all clouds of sorrow depart,<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful dreamer awake unto me!\n<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-01-20: 04:19:00<\/em> <br \/>Terrific word and sentence. Thanks for the words to Stephen Foster&#8217;s &#8220;Beautiful dreamer&#8221; Another of his great works is &#8220;Hard Times&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a song that will linger forever in our ears;<\/p>\n<p> Oh Hard times come again no more.<\/p>\n<p>     Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,<\/p>\n<p>     Hard Times, hard times, come again no more<\/p>\n<p>     Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;<\/p>\n<p>     Oh hard times come again no more.<\/p>\n<p>While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay,<br \/>\nThere are frail forms fainting at the door;<br \/>\nThough their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say<br \/>\nOh hard times come again no more.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away,<br \/>\nWith a worn heart whose better days are o&#8217;er:<br \/>\nThough her voice would be merry, &#8217;tis sighing all the day,<br \/>\nOh hard times come again no more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave,<br \/>\n&#8216;Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore,<br \/>\n&#8216;Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave,<br \/>\nOh! Hard Times, come again no more.<\/p>\n<p>Sad to think that Foster was dead, of alcoholism, at 37.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=metrohumanx\">metrohumanx<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-01-20: 11:22:00<\/em> <br \/>Brilliant and inspirational. Foster was truly great. Might I add:<br \/>\nThis land is your land, this land is my land<br \/>\nFrom California, to the New York Island<br \/>\nFrom the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters<br \/>\nThis land was made for you and me\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\nAs I was walking a ribbon of highway<br \/>\nI saw above me an endless skyway<br \/>\nI saw below me a golden valley<br \/>\nThis land was made for you and me\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve roamed and rambled and I&#8217;ve followed my footsteps<br \/>\nTo the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts<br \/>\nAnd all around me a voice was sounding<br \/>\nThis land was made for you and me\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\nThe sun comes shining as I was strolling<br \/>\nThe wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling<br \/>\nThe fog was lifting a voice come chanting<br \/>\nThis land was made for you and me\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\nAs I was walkin&#8217;  &#8211;  I saw a sign there<br \/>\nAnd that sign said &#8211; no tress passin&#8217;<br \/>\nBut on the other side  &#8230;. it didn&#8217;t say nothin!<br \/>\nNow that side was made for you and me!\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\nIn the squares of the city &#8211; In the shadow of the steeple<br \/>\nNear the relief office &#8211; I see my people<br \/>\nAnd some are grumblin&#8217; and some are wonderin&#8217;<br \/>\nIf this land&#8217;s still made for you and me.<br \/>\n-WOODY GUTHRIE\n<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Jabberwocky\">Jabberwocky<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-01-20: 14:52:00<\/em> <br \/>those are the longest comments I&#8217;ve ever seen.  I think you created facilichatter<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-01-21: 00:32:00<\/em> <br \/>Great word and great songs, although I am partial to Queen &amp; ABBA myself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=mweinmann\">mweinmann<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-01-21: 08:31:00<\/em> <br \/>Enjoy your uplifting words&#8230;.and your comments and support for everyone who contributes their words each day&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Revolocution<\/strong>:  \/<em>rev-o-lo-cu-tion<\/em>\/ The new President of the United States of America, Barrack Obama, carries the hopes and dreams of the world on his shoulders and his words and dreams portrayed through his elegant and positive forward-looking speeches will hopefully cause a major revolocution, not only in America, but throughout the world. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  REVOLOCUTION &#8211; from REVOLUTION (a sudden, complete, or marked change in something) + LOCUTION (words, language) and\/or ALLOCUTION (The act, or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words) <em>Created by:<\/em> Stevenson0.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Atlaspiration<\/strong>:  \/<em>at-las-peer-ay-shun<\/em>\/ It will take someone with extreme atlaspiration to shoulder the problems facing the globe today. I think Obama can do it. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Atlas (mythical Titan giant who carried the heavens on his shoulders) + aspiration (strong desire, ambition) <em>Created by:<\/em> Jabberwocky.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Atlaspiration:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=metrohumanx\">metrohumanx<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-01-20: 11:26:00<\/em> <br \/>At Last! <\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=silveryaspen\">silveryaspen<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-01-20: 13:01:00<\/em> <br \/>Extremely Excellent. The need for an Atlas to shoulder the atlas, the book of all places and things of this world, and to do it with hope &#8230; to aspire to make it better.    <\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=TJayzz\">TJayzz<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-01-20: 13:48:00<\/em> <br \/>Great word\n<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=readerwriter\">readerwriter<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-01-20: 17:02:00<\/em> <br \/>Yeah, that&#8217;s the one I was trying to think of&#8230;good job! No shrugalapsing allowed, though&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=obama\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=obama<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: v. To try to change the world by turning words into actions. n. A person who carries the hopes and dreams of the world on their shoulders. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Articulaction: \/\u00c3\u00a4rtiky\u00c9\u2122laksh\u00c9\u2122n\/ A great speech is wonderful but now it&#8217;s time to stand back and watch the articulaction. Etymology: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=540\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Articulaction: If we&#8217;re going to change the world&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,93,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}