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 Sethnet Journal, January 2009
Volume 51, Artwork: World of Chakras - The Heart by Jonathan Dilas, Happy New Year 2009 by Nardine Neilson, Hearty Quotes A compilation by Paul M. Helfrich, A Dream, A Question, and A Promise: Chapter 10 by Pamela Gibson, The Heart Centre - Excerpt from Revelation: Joseph’s Message channelled by Michael G. Reccia, Sisters of My Heart by Nardine Neilson.
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An Opinionated Woman
By Gwendoline Y. Fortune, Ed. D.
Address
to The Adult Discussion Group
Unitarian
Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville FL
Sunday,
March 16, 2008—9:30 AM
Bev Asbury and I
met in the Fellowship door one Sunday in mid January. With his charming smile,
Bev said, “I want you to talk to the adult discussion group on the topic ‘An
Opinionated Woman.’” “Opinionated---woman?” Huh--m! I want to speak to those
words, share a context, then, we will discuss whatever you care to say related
to what you hear me say.
An opinionated
woman-- La femme avec l’opinion. Note the placement--first or last. Woman—la
femme.
I’ve had a
lifelong fascination with words. If I’d known about linguistics, that might
have been my career. According to my parents, when I was almost four I brought
the morning paper from the porch. I spread the paper on the floor, knelt, put
my face in my hands and perused it.
Daddy said, “Look at her pretending
she can read.”
I said, “I can read.”
He said, “So read.”
I read the caption in the balloon
over the head of a carton character on the lower left corner of page one. I
like to say that Daddy dropped his grits and bacon...
There was no
kindergarten in the local school system. Mother asked, I guess, and a family
friend, who taught first grade, said I could come to her class as long as I
could sit still.
I am intrigued by
the derivation--the etymology--of words; sadly so, as I observe the mangling—the
dumbing-down-- in communication from pronunciation to grammar to meaning. “1984”
was no surprise to me.
The linguistic root
of opinion is “opine” meaning to think, to suppose
Its origin is opinari{L}; opinioun
{OFr}-- to think
Opiner-one who thinks or holds an
opinion
The notion of “thinking”
deteriorated into “opinionated”-- holding unreasonably to one’s own
opinion—stubborn, dogmatic, prejudiced, undue fondness, obstinate--Webster’s
Unabridged has:
(1) A belief not based in absolute
certainty or positive knowledge, but on what seems true, valid or
probable to one’s own mind. What one thinks; judgment.
(2.) An evaluation, impression or
estimation of a quality or worth of a person or thing.
(3.) Formal judgment of an expert
or a matter in which advice is sought
(4.) In law, a formal statement by
a judge, etc., of the law bearing on a case.
(5.) Opinionatedness, conceitedness.
Synonyms—notion, sentiment,
conception, idea, estimation, belief, believe, advise, mental attitude.
(Continued in the Library....)