85: Don't malinger on a maudlin Monday morning...
English Vocab by Victorprep
Sam Fold
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🗓️ 17 July 2017
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The words for today are: Maudlin, Deride, Malinger, Gestation.
Today's quote is from Soren Kierkegaard, from the book The Present Age.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, this is Sam Fold and this is episode 85 of the Victor Prep Vocal Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | I hope you had a wonderful weekend, but sadly all good things come to an end and now it's Monday. |
| 0:17.0 | And I figured I would start off with something thoughtful for Monday, but before we do the thoughtful quote of the day, let's quickly review the words |
| 0:27.2 | from Friday. So we had Abjure, Cartography, Mirth, and divine. |
| 0:34.0 | Abjur, to Abjur something, means to solemnly renounce. |
| 0:39.0 | So, like renouncing a religion or renouncing some belief or cause. |
| 0:45.0 | Cartography, |
| 0:48.0 | meaning the science, art, or the practice of drawing maps. |
| 0:54.0 | Mirth, meaning amusement, especially expressed in laughter. |
| 1:01.0 | And we had divine meaning of a god or from a god or like a god or god or god or |
| 1:11.4 | angelic so something that tasted divine. |
| 1:17.0 | All right then, so let's get started with today's episode and I'm going to start with a quote from a philosopher |
| 1:24.1 | called Soren Kirkgaard and Kukugard was a Danish philosopher and he was living in |
| 1:29.5 | the 1800s and one of my favorite things that he wrote is this short book, really rather a long essay called |
| 1:38.2 | the present age. |
| 1:40.2 | And it's really interesting to me because he wrote this in 1840. |
| 1:45.0 | And I want you to think a little bit about how accurate this seems to our modern age, |
| 1:52.0 | given that he wrote this so long ago so he wrote this in 1840 so |
| 1:56.3 | I'll just read you this quote. A revolutionary age is an age of action. |
| 2:03.3 | Ours is the age of advertisement and publicity. |
| 2:08.0 | Nothing ever happens, but there is immediate publicity everywhere. In the present age, a rebellion is, of all things, the most unthinkable. |
| 2:19.5 | Such an expression of strength would seem ridiculous to the calculating intelligence of our times. |
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