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6.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

This 34-letter word, which was coined by song-writers Richard and Robert Sherman in the musical film Mary Poppins, is completely made-up, the sum of word parts that don’t even follow proper prefix/suffix placement protocol; the “-istic” following “fragil-” is a suffix, which should signify a word’s end.  However, it is followed by the prefix “ex-,” where a new, separate word should begin.  Nonetheless, it is just another example of a phrase being irretrievably carried off by and imbedded within the culture into which it was born.  Just as how words are invented all the time in rap culture, and swallowed up by a constantly-evolving (or devolving) language system.

The word, containing definable roots, means something like “Atoning for educability through delicate beauty.”  Miss Poppins, however, would insist the word means “something to say when you have nothing to say.”

7.
Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism

This 30-letter word is a technical one for a type of inherited disorder.  An individual with such a disorder resembles someone with Pseudohypoparathyroidism Type 1A, but doesn’t possess a deficiency in calcium or PTH levels (which mark the essential differences between Pseudohypoparathyroidism 1A and Hypoparathyroidism).

To put it far more basically, the word is much more fun to say than to have.

Additional note: tying for the #7 spot is the word “hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian.”  It also contains 30 letters.  Let its omission be justified by saying this list, in and of itself, is hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian (i.e. “that which pertains to extremely long words”).

8.
Floccinaucinihilipilification

This 29-letter word, pieced together from Latin stems, means simply “the deeming of something to be trivial.”  One letter more than antidisestablishmentarianism, and just as big of a mouthful, it is a valid dictionary entry with a usefulness that is much greater than anything it might be placed beside contextually.  Some readers might even be able to maintain a floccinaucinihilipilification for this list.

9. 
Antidisestablishmentarianism

Containing 28-letters, antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest proper word, consisting of proper and compatible root and affix attachments.  After all the Lego blocks have been snapped together, the word comes to mean “the movement or ideology that opposes disestablishment (i.e. the separation of church and state, as in the movement that took place in 1860’s England).”  The word has a dated relevance, or else is the greatest living thing in a world history nerd’s vocabulary.

10. 
Honorificabilitudinitatibus

This 27-letter word coined by Shakespeare, in his comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost, is a testament to the Bard’s own intralexiconic skills. Meaning “the state of being able to achieve honors,” the word is the longest one in the English language with alternating consonants and vowels (Take a look for yourself….yep.).

Top 10 Longest Words in the English Language

Sometimes a picture says a thousand words; sometimes a word says a thousand letters.  There are a few instances in the English language where a word is not constructed for the sake of communication so much as to break a world record, for spectacle’s sake.  In that way, the English language is much like the Olympics; here are ten words that really go the distance.

Note: the following are words in the non-strictest sense, being that some are technical terms, some have been coined, while others actually appear in the dictionary.  Depending on which school of thought you subscribe to, lists may very on the basis of “what constitutes a word” (and some may argue simply that letters constitute a word).

Quote from: hubag bohol on November 22, 2013, 05:53:25 AM
He he, unsa kaha kon ikaw ang mag-crazies, no?

aw, hehehe. mogawas man sad atong pagka-shy ani...

mubo man god kog kuko, mao nga way masamad sa akong sinagpaan.

let's repeat that.  an enabling law for what is enshrined in our constitution against political dynasties had languished since the 1987 constitution was instituted.  an attempt to pass a law had been made ages ago, and nothing was heard from it again.

the possible reasons why the anti-dynasty bill may not even be scheduled in the plenary:

Speaker Sonny Belmonte
uncle to QC Rep. Kit Belmonte
daughter, Joy, is Quezon City vice mayor

Deputy Majority Leader Abigail Binay
daughter of Vice President Jejomar Binay
sister to Senator Nancy Binay
(sister to Makati City Mayor Jejomar Erwin Binay)

Rep. Mark Villar
son to Senator Cynthia Villar

Rep. Lino Cayetano
brother to Senators Pia and Alan Peter Cayetano
(brother-in-law to Taguig City mayor Lani Cayetano, wife of Senator Alan Peter Cayetano)

Malabon Rep. Josephine Lacson Noel
sister-in-law to An Waray Rep. Victoria Noel

Rep. Imelda Marcos
mother to Senator Bongbong Marcos
(mother to Ilocos Norte Governor Imee Marcos)

Rep. Lani Mercado Revilla
wife to Senator Bong Revilla

Rep. Sherwin Gatchalian
brother to Rep. Wesley Gatchalian
(brother to Valenzuela Mayor Rex Gatchalian)

Rep. Gloria Arroyo
mother to Rep. Dato Arroyo

Rep. Sitti Hataman
(wife of ARMM Governor Jim Hataman)

Rep. Abdullah Dimaporo
husband of Rep. Imelda Dimaporo


will these people vote for a law that will disallow them from holding elective positions together, all in the family?  your guess is as good as mine.

Rep. Gloria Arroyo is the mother of Rep. Dato Arroyo.

Rep. Sitti Hataman is the wife of ARMM Governor Jim Hataman.

Lanao del Norte Rep. Abdullah Dimaporo is married to Rep. Imelda Dimaporo.


http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/

Malabon Rep. Josephine Lacson Noel is sister-in-law to An Waray Rep. Victoria Noel.

Rep. Imelda Marcos is mother to Ilocos Norte Governor Imee Marcos and Senator Bongbong Marcos.

Rep. Lani Mercado is wife to Senator Bong Revilla.

Rep. Sherwin Gatchalian is brother to Rep. Wesley
Gatchalian and Valenzuela Mayor Rex Gatchalian.

Deputy Majority Leader Abigail Binay is the daughter of Vice President Jejomar Binay and sister to Senator Nancy Binay.

Rep. Mark Villar is son to Senator Cynthia Villar.

Rep. Lino Cayetano is brother to Senators Pia and Alan Peter Cayetano.

The bill is expected to be endorsed to the plenary.

Despite all these, it’s a guessing game if this will even be included in the agenda of the plenary, considering some lawmakers are involved in political dynasties.

Speaker Sonny Belmonte's daughter, Joy, is Quezon City vice mayor. He is also an uncle to QC Rep. Kit Belmonte.

Colmenares, who is also one of the authors said: "Today’s a historic moment, if only because for the first time, pumasa sa kumite.”

ACT TEACHERS Party List Rep. Antonio Tinio said, "the next step is for [the lower House] to schedule plenary debates. I call on the public and I hope that the same forces that are for the abolition of the pork barrel system will also be mobilized for this struggle. Alam natin magkaugnay ang issue ng pork barrel at dynasties.”

Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares also inserted a provision that empowers the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to resolve through a raffle which one in the same family will be allowed to run in the same election in case none of the candidates in the same family withdraw or give way to just one family member.

Minority Leader Ronaldo Zamora said "the important thing is a lot of reforms have to be set in place and it shouldn’t just be in the budget. It should also include political dynasties. Let’s take a look again. We have been remiss in our obligation to implement [this]. Let’s see what they will do at the committee of suffrage. I hope we get the leadership to agree to looking at pol dynasties in a much more aggressive light.”

House makes history: Committee OKs bill vs dynasties

by RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
11/20/2013

MANILA - For the first time ever, the House Committee on Suffrage has approved a consolidated bill banning political dynasties in the Philippines.

The bill essentially bans from running in the same election the spouses or persons related to an incumbent up to the second degree of consanguinity or affinity. It also bans the possible overlap of relatives' terms in office.

Quote from: islander on November 21, 2013, 07:00:08 PMBinay claimed that as early as August 2012, his camp has uncovered an “organized” online campaign to soil his image.

He did not name names, but he attributed the supposed online smear campaign to a “potential presidential candidate in 2016.” The goal, according to him, is to derail his presidential ambitionsâ€"something which Binay has admitted.

Incidentally, the same ambition has been cited by netizens as the main factor in his seeming fondness for public attention.

watch out. binay's political strategy seems to be that he presents himself as the underdog.  voters, most of whom come from the c/d sector, identify with the underdog.  remember his powerful statement about his daughter, nancy?  "kawawa si nancy..."  so she made it as senator. 

Quote from: islander on November 21, 2013, 06:59:17 PM“I had no control over the labeling but when I was informed about this, I had them removed.”

whatever these images mean, it's not that he had no control.

Quote from: islander on November 21, 2013, 06:59:17 PM
Binay admitted the relief goods were donated in his name by a businessman-friend in Iloilo, and had been intended for typhoon-hit Capiz and neighboring areas.

“But I did not instruct my friend to put my name on it,” Binay, who was here Wednesday to inaugurate a housing project by the Surigao del Norte provincial government, told reporters.

“I had no control over the labeling but when I was informed about this, I had them removed.”

duh.  and we're supposed to believe this?

what a businessman.  he just can't donate in his own name.  it had to be the vice-president's name.  would that binay names this magnanimous and publicity-shy businessman and thank him publicly so that the beneficiaries will know that those good didn't come from the vice-president.

From armed conflict to disasters, Binay has drawn flak for inserting himself and appearing to be swinging on an early campaign mode.

Just last month, netizens blasted Binay for electioneering after photos of his custom-labeled relief goods for Bohol earthquake victims went viral.

He also faced accusations of politicking after he caused public confusion following his announcement that a truce had been reached between government forces and forces loyal to Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founding chair Nur Misuari.

That announcement turned out to be false and Binay was chided for his unauthorized attempt to discuss a truce with the rebels.


http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/

Binay claimed that as early as August 2012, his camp has uncovered an “organized” online campaign to soil his image.

He did not name names, but he attributed the supposed online smear campaign to a “potential presidential candidate in 2016.” The goal, according to him, is to derail his presidential ambitionsâ€"something which Binay has admitted.

Incidentally, the same ambition has been cited by netizens as the main factor in his seeming fondness for public attention.

Binay admitted the relief goods were donated in his name by a businessman-friend in Iloilo, and had been intended for typhoon-hit Capiz and neighboring areas.

“But I did not instruct my friend to put my name on it,” Binay, who was here Wednesday to inaugurate a housing project by the Surigao del Norte provincial government, told reporters.

“I had no control over the labeling but when I was informed about this, I had them removed.”

Quote from: chicogon on November 18, 2013, 08:26:02 AM
B-nay D-ny

but opkors.  here goes:

‘EPAL’ BACKLASH:

Binay says he didn’t want his name on relief goods, blames supporter

By Danilo Adorador III
Inquirer Mindanao
Thursday, November 21st, 2013

SURIGAO CITY, Philippines â€" Vice President Jejomar Binay is seeing a conspiracy behind the negative posts on social media deriding him as an “epal,” or one who is constantly trying to draw attention to himself.



Vice President Binay has been on the receiving end of social media backlash after photos of relief goods labeled with his name and plastered with the Vice President’s logo became viral. The relief goods are intended for victims of typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan).

Quote from: chicogon on November 21, 2013, 04:20:41 PM
1986 pa unta to...

27 years ago. worth a lifetime. whew!

i'll continue to look for reports related to this, loll.  i wish your fellow teacher well.  i hope he recovers from his emotional and psychological pains over this calamity.

i couldn't find any substantiating news report on this, loll.  couldn't this be one of those rumors that turned into rants that turned into alleged information when passed on, most especially among people who are suffering and are thus vulnerable to falling for the blame game?

the initial rumors of rape and pillage also happened in the aftermath of haiti's disaster.  in yolanda's case, those rape and pillage stories vanished as the days went by.  one couldn't tell whether those were true or not.  katrina in the u.s. also did not spare george bush from heaps of blame.  i guess it helps that someone in authority gets blamed.  fortunately, there isn't any item, written or said, that blames god. 

whaaaatttt?  gapakauwaw lang!

what a story.  whew!

Grumpy Cat


Grumpy Cat (New York Magazine)

There are famous Internet animals, and then there is Grumpy Cat. The one-year-old feline, whose perpetually frowning face turned her into a massive online sensation over the past year, officially became a one-cat empire when she graced the cover of New York magazine’s “Boom Brands” issue in October. The world learned that the estimated value of the Grumpy Cat brand â€" which includes a coffee line, a New York Times-bestselling book and even a movie deal â€" is worth an estimated $1 million. The lesson from all this, according to New York magazine? Invest in cats.


http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/20/

Chris P. Bacon, the Piglet



The piglet known as Chris P. Bacon had all the raw materials to become a viral star: an adorable little face, a cute, vaguely ironic name, and a touching tale of overcoming adversity. He was born without the use of his hind legs and began learning to walk with the help of a pint-sized wheelchair made from toy parts. His original owner has intended to put him down, but Florida-based veterinarian Len Lucero decided to adopt him â€" and help him become mobile. Lucero posted a video of the piglet using his tiny wheelchair to YouTube, where it racked up more than 1.5 million views. And with that, a porcine star was born.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUPTnS_hHXI#ws

Rupee


Rupee, a formerly homeless dog rescued from a dump by his current owner Joanne Lefson, is thought to be the first dog in the world to climb Mount Everest. (inhabitat.com)

A former stray dog has pulled himself up by the bootstraps and created a better life for himself. A life that includes becoming the first dog ever to climb Mount Everest. Rupee, the formerly homeless pup who was found starving in a dump in India. His owner, Joanne Lefson, rescued him and helped nurse him back to health, feeding him a high protein diet of boiled eggs and rice, according to the Daily Mail. Now, Rupee is strong, healthy and capable of climbing mountains. This year, he became the first canine on record to climb Mount Everest after trekking for 10 days with Lefson to base camp, 17,000 feet above sea level.

Gowanus Dolphin


Michael Heiman / Getty Images

New Yorkers were reminded of their frequently-ignored connection to the natural world when a dolphin arrived in Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal in January. The aging dolphin died in the dirty waterway causing many to worry that the Gowanus led to its end (a necropsy revealed the dolphin was gravely ill before it swam into Brooklyn’s waters). By swimming to its death in the media capital of the world, the dolphin secured the sort of fleeting fame that perhaps only animals can earn in the age of Instagram. The dolphin wasn’t the first large creature to meet its end in the Gowanus. In 2007, a Minke whale made it to the water before dying two days later. He was nicknamed Sludgie.

Rescued ‘Gay’ Shelter Dog


www.gaystarnews.com

A pit bull in Tennessee ended up at an overcrowded kill-shelter because his owner, after seeing the dog mount another male pooch, thought he was gay. The story made its way to Facebook, spreading the word that the pit bull would be put down if no one adopted him immediately. The post was shared more than 5,000 times, and soon enough, local veterinary technician Stephanie Fryns came forward and agreed to adopt him. Just hours before he was scheduled to be euthanized, the “gay” shelter dog â€" who Fryns renamed Elton â€" found a new home.

Washington Zoo Pandas


Smithsonian's National Zoo / AP

When U.S. lawmakers couldn’t agree on raising the debt ceiling, the government shut down for two weeks. Naturally, this had some pretty drastic effects, most glaringly, the National Zoo pulling the plug on its beloved panda cam. When the live feed, which broadcasts the daily lives of two giant pandas, went dark, the Internet did not respond well. At all. The only positive outcome of this lack of round-the-clock pandas was that other animal cams got their turn to shine. But of course, after the two-week deprivation, the Internet breathed a collective sigh of relief when the zoo shared a very important message on Twitter: “The panda cam is back ON!”

The Missing Cicadas


Julia Schmalz / Bloomberg / Getty Images

As soon as it became known that the East Coast â€" and, in particular, New York City â€" was in for a major cicada invasion, all hell broke loose. Hell in the form of a plague of media attention. (See: trillions of terrifying red-eyed bloodthirsty monsters will emerge from all possible crevices to ruin your life). The invasion, which comes once every 17 years, did happen in some areas, sure, but in the end it was all very underwhelming. NBC Philadelphia dubbed it “The Cicada Invasion That Wasn’t” and New York magazine simply declared that in the Big Apple, the invasion had been canceled.

Therapy Dogs in Boston and Newtown


The Lutheran Church Charities

Following April’s Boston Marathon bombings, a pack of five golden retrievers arrived in Boston to offer comfort to the community. The pups, part of the nonprofit K-9 Comfort Dogs, were all specially trained in providing emotional support. They were stationed at a church a few blocks from the marathon finish line, and also sent to area hospitals to visit victims. These comforting canines had also spent time in Newtown, Connecticut, offering support to the community following the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. “They bring a calming effect to people,” Tim Hetzner, president of Lutheran Church Charities, told TODAY, “and help them process the various emotions that they go through in times like this.”

my eyes moistened over this next one, lorenz.

Bowser the Rescued Tornado Dog


http://www.cbsnews.com/

Following the massive tornado that slammed Oklahoma in May, a touching story â€" captured on live TV â€" provided a bit of hope. During an on-air interview with CBS News, Moore resident Barbara Garcia described the unthinkable devastation that had just whipped through her town. Her home was decimated, and her dog was trapped somewhere beneath the wreckage. But soon, someone off-camera noticed something moving nearby. Garcia looked closer and realized it was her dog, Bowser, buried alive beneath the rubble. Garcia and the news crew managed to lift the debris and rescue the pup. She later told CBS News, “All of the other things … you know, one by one they can be replaced. A lot of it wasn’t even important, but I couldn’t replace him.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUc1ZgXiQGs#ws

Olinguito


Olinguito (Photo: Mark Gurney)

It’s 2013. You’d think that mankind would have classified and catalogued every animal by now. But for the first time in more than three decades, scientists discovered a new mammal in the Americas. Native to Ecuador and Colombia, the cute, fluffy olinguito â€" technical name: Bassaricyon neblina â€" officially became the smallest member of the raccoon family when the Smithsonian announced the discovery in August. Previously, scientists thought this animal was part of a sister species known as the olingo, but extensive research showed that the cuddly creatures were in fact their very own species.

Sunny


Sunny and Bo (Photo: Pete Souza/White House)

The First Family got a bit cuter when a new dog settled into the White House in August. President Obama officially introduced the one-year-old pup, Sunny, on Twitter, and naturally, the Internet rejoiced. She joined fellow Portuguese water dog Bo, who until then had been the Obamas’ only pooch. In his 2012 victory speech, President Obama had said, “for now one dog’s probably enough.” But clearly, by 2013 he’d changed his mind (perhaps at the urging of his daughters Sasha and Malia). Nothing says influence like a free pass to wander the West Wing.

A Time Magazine (and thus credible and creditable) feature


The 11 Most Influential Animals of 2013

By Samantha Grossman
@sam_grossman
Nov. 18, 2013

They pawed around the West Wing and comforted people after tragedy. Sometimes, like pandas, they made their biggest impact by not being there at all. Here’s an unranked look at four-legged and finned creatures that shaped our year.

sad.

nagluha kog kinatawa, hahaha!  familiar ra man god ko ni cashmere bouquet, bisag sa bisaya casimiro bucag ni.  pero nakatawa kog samot sa tiger woods.  now pa ko nga ang leon, atot, tiger diay sa english, hahaha!

wonderful!

A typhoon survivor carries “puto,” or steamed Filipino rice cake, to sell in Dagami, Leyte province, central Philippines, Wednesday Nov. 20, 2013. Resilience seems innate in Filipino people, according to Filipino-American Anthony Advincula. “Accustomed to hardships, we are naturally self-reliant. President Obama, in his recent speech, expressed as much in saying: ‘I know the incredible resiliency of the Philippine people, and I am confident that the spirit of bayanihan (community spirit) will see you through this tragedy,’” he writes. AP (http://globalnation.inquirer.net/)

how true.  priests heal souls, shoemakers heal soles, physicians heal heels and heroes and all those in-between.

one can imagine a possible similar regret with 20/20 hindsight vision from the characters of our own pork barrel scam.  janet napoles must be wishing she were back to those time when her children had to sell pens and pencils to help make both ends meet instead of her youngest jeane having to splurge and empty a celine boutique of its contents.   

Quote from: hubag bohol on November 21, 2013, 10:23:30 AM

i'm not familiar with the movie nor with the book on which it was based.  but i went through the synopsis just now.  the simple plan is far from simple.  a believable plot, with characters making one bad decision following another, all fatal, all because of the tempting siren call of greed.  what a lesson.

a wise decision, lorenz.  there's no point in rushing.

100% agree to everything there!  hahahahuhuhu... ambot ba uroy.  right now there's a cat in front of me, and yes i have to operate the mouse under her belly.  whew!

Quote from: Lorenzo on November 21, 2013, 10:19:28 AM

the oldest crocodile in the block. go retire dude. ambisyosong jawa! 

the downside of staying too long.  even great stage performers know when to make a final curtain call with great dignity.  he missed his chance.

“There exists sufficient evidence to warrant the filing of criminal and administrative charges against all individuals involved in the release, utilization and disbursement,” the memorandum said, citing statements of former Napoles employees led by Benhur Luy and documents from the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) and the Commission on Audit (COA).


Read more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/531459/enrile-unseen-hand-in-pork-scam#ixzz2lIyXjlFb

A separate memorandum also recommended the filing of criminal and administrative charges against Senators Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla.

The Fangon memo likewise recommended the filing of plunder charges against Reyes, Evangelista, Alan Javellana, Rhodora Mendoza, Victor Cacal, Maria Ninez Guanizo, Encarnita Cristina Munsod, Ma. Julie Asor Johnson, Gondelina Amata, Chita Chua Jalandoni, Emmanuel Sevidal, Ofelia Ordonez, Filipina Rodriguez, Sofia Daing Cruz, Antonio Ortiz, Dennis Cunanan, Maria Rosalinda Lacsamana, Consuelo Lilian Reyes Espiritu, Francisco Figura, Allen Baysa, Marivic Jover and officials of six nongovernment organizations (NGOs) controlled by Napoles.

“Clearly, no matter how layered the scheme may have been perpetrated or unrelated the players may appear, all facts point to Senator Enrile as the unseen hand directing the compass and the tempo of the whole orchestra,” according to a memorandum prepared by Assistant Ombudsman Joselito P. Fangon.

The eight-page report submitted on Nov. 11 to Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales said Enrile’s former aides Jessica Lucila “Gigi” Gonzales-Reyes and Jose Antonio Evangelista had a close association with Napoles, who was named by her former employees as the brains behind the scheme that allegedly turned allocations under the congressional Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) into kickbacks.

‘Enrile unseen hand in pork scam’

Senator tagged in report to Morales

By Nancy C. Carvajal
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Thursday, November 21st, 2013
 

INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

An investigative team of the Office of the Ombudsman has named Senate Minority Leader Juan Ponce Enrile as the mastermind of the alleged P10-billion pork barrel scamâ€"not businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles, according to official documents obtained by Inquirer.

Quote from: islander on November 21, 2013, 09:52:18 AMPeter Lewerin has suggested Proverbs 17:28 as an early source of the line: "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding."

it then looks like the scriptures, having been there some millenia ahead of these quotable people, has won the day as the original source of the quote's wisdom.

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"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

Apparently not Johnson, using the Primary Source Media CD-ROM as the judge. Nowhere in Johnson's works or letters, or contemporary biographies of him, do the phrases "remain silent" or "remove all doubt" appear in anything close to this context. In fact, the words "silent" and "fool" never appear together in a sentence.

In addition to Johnson, many other people are supposed to have said this. Sometimes people cite Abraham Lincoln; or a journalist named Silvan Engel or sometimes it's attributed to "Lincoln, quoting Silvan Engel." It also gets attributed to Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and Woodrow Wilson. (You can read more in this discussion in alt.quotations, as well as this explanation at "Ask Yahoo!")

Peter Lewerin has suggested Proverbs 17:28 as an early source of the line: "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding."


http://answers.yahoo.com/

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This was a tougher nut to crack than we originally thought. Not only could we not find a definite answer to your question, we couldn't even confirm the exact wording of the quote.

Searches on "better to keep your mouth closed" and "better to remain silent" (using the quotation marks in both cases) turned up numerous web pages, all offering different versions of the phrase. Some sources quoted the saying as "It's far better...", some substituted the words "stupid," "ignorant," or "simpleton" for the word "fool," and still others twisted the saying into an almost unrecognizable form.

A page titled Mark Twain and the Mutating Quote attributed at least four variations of the same phrase to the eminently quotable Twain, explaining that it was a case of "split personality" that accounted for the variations, rather than a rash of misquotes.

Other pages suggested a number of other authors for the saying, including: Abraham Lincoln, George Eliot, Groucho Marx, Albert Einstein, and a mysterious figure named Silvan Engel.

In an attempt to solve this proverbial puzzle, we paid a visit to Bartleby.com, home to the online version of Familiar Quotations. Unfortunately, after searching on a number of possible keywords and potential authors, we couldn't find a single reference to this quote.

All the confusion and disagreement surrounding both the author and the wording of this saying led us to suspect that it may be a simple maxim, not attributable to any single person -- which is not to question its wisdom.

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I’ve had the following quote on my blog for a while:

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt â€" Abraham Lincoln

It was pointed out to me that the attribution of that quote should have been to Mark Twain, not Abraham Lincoln. I started wondering if that could be true. I certainly did not want to propagate a misquote. Even after doing some searching on the web, I still was not able to determine the answer to my satisfaction. Bartleby, where I usually go to check quotes, did not have the quote at all. A number of sites attribute the quote to Lincoln, and just as many attribute the quote to Mark Twain. Still other sites attribute to someone else altogether. I was not able to find any reliable citations on any site. Even Ask Yahoo came up empty.

The quote is clearly derived from a much earlier quote found in Proverbs 17:28 in the Míshlê Shlomoh in the Tanakh.

my favorite entries on who 'owns' this quote:

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This is a very old maxim or adage, and it is not possible to attribute it to any one individual.

Although some credit this quote to Abraham Lincoln, others to Mark Twain, and others to Samuel Johnson (apocryphally) , it evidently is much, much older than all of these, and they are probably paraphrasing from Scriptures, or repeating an old adage.

after all, the attribution of this quote is not limited to either Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain only.  also credited or quoted with this line are a diverse lot like Oscar Wilde, Woodrow Wilson, George Eliot, Groucho Marx, Albert Einstein, and journalist Silvan Engel.  whew!

online information is truly a heap, one needs to pick through all that trash or gold mine of information, opinion, news, and whatever else.  interestingly, for just the attribution of this one quote, there are mountains of such heap.

hubag bohol's personal text/signature is:

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt," which he attributes Abraham Lincoln.

in today's column of Conrado de Quiros at the Philippine Daily Inquirer (There’s the Rub, http://opinion.inquirer.net/65771/new-normal#ixzz2lIiK6bgE), a line goes thus:

"...Tacloban of late, and you’ll appreciate Mark Twain’s remark that it is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought of as a fool than to open it and confirm the fact."

so who really said this quotable line?  curious cat cannot help but get curioser...

he doesn't know his cat. 

cat owners are supposed to see, if not sense, a cat's tantrum time (called crazies) which more often than not is twice a day, usually in the morning and another one in the evening.  it happens for a few minutes and one can see it through the cat's crazy, frenzied, and agitated behavior for no apparent reason.  the eyes have it.  they're as if they don't know you or even see you.  humans must leave a cat alone at that state.  play with them at your own peril.   

this hapless guy in the gif above was more focused on his selfie man god ug himoon pa gyod niya nga prop ang cat.  tua, nasagpaan hinoon.

arang gyod mong duhahahahahaha!

The cubs were born less than a week after the first anniversary of the eight-day conflict between Hamas and Israel in November 2012.

"The lioness gave birth yesterday (Monday) to two cubs, one male and one female," said Nahed al-Majdub, head of the "Bissan" amusement park, set up by the Hamas-run interior ministry.

"They were named Fajr and Sijil," said Majdub, Arabic for dawn and clay.


Fajr and Sijil AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed

The names refer to the Fajr missiles Hamas fired at Israel in the conflict in November 2012 and the name the Palestinian Islamist movement gave to the fighting, "Operation Stones of Clay."

"It is the first time lions have been born in the Gaza Strip," Majdub said, adding that the cubs' parents were imported from Egypt four years ago.


more at http://news.yahoo.com/hamas-announces-birth-two-lion-cubs-gaza-194335023.html

Hamas announces birth of two lion cubs in Gaza

AFP
November 20 2013


Gaza cubs Fajr and Sijil AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Gaza's Hamas-run authorities on Tuesday announced the birth of two lion cubs in the Palestinian enclave, named in honour of the last bout of fighting between the Islamists and Israel.

da, tiwasan lagi, hehe.

Fox 2 asked a very good question: is this legal? Their legal analyst Charlie Langton says “Unless this city has some ordinance, that prevents these kind of fingers from being illegal of some kind â€" no! You could have a statue, some people might call it art, I don’t know, but there’s nothing illegal about it…I know it doesn’t look good, but there’s nothing illegal about it. Get over it!”


Fox 2 legal analyst Charlie Langton (WJBK)

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A private message, however, would be out of character for Mr. Markovitz. He’s quite the deal in Detroit. As this Deadline Detroit article summarizes in its first paragraph, “He's been shot twice, and he once was the target of a murder contract. He wrote an autobiography and bought and sold 11 local topless clubs. He once used a chimp in an act with predictably strange results.” And that’s not it.

Fox 2 wasn’t able to get the ex-wife on the horn, but did speak with Markovitz. He told them that the plan was to get even with the new boyfriend, because the two had allegedly had an affair while she was still married to our favorite art patron. He also told them that it wasn’t his intention for this to be public and that it only spread after his ex-wife’s daughter posted a picture on her Twitter account.


Alan Markovitz (WJBK)

Oh! Oh! And also! It has a spotlight that illuminates it during the evening.


The statue, during the evening. (WJBK/Lenka Tuohy)

Man, unhappy with ex-wife, buys house next to her and puts up gigantic middle finger statue

By Will Lerner
November 18, 2013
Odd News

This story is one that warms the blackened, icy hearts of the Odd News team. In Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Alan Markovitz, not satisfied with expressing his distaste for his ex-wife in just words, has bought and moved into a home that sits right next door to a house that’s occupied by…his ex-wife. That’s funny enough, but as WJBK Fox 2 points out, the cherry on top of this cupcake is an almost 12-foot high statue of a middle finger Markovitz put in his back yard, pointed toward his former love and her new boyfriend.


The statue, seen in daylight. (WJBK/Lenka Tuohy)

†The eternal flame burns atop at the gravesite of President John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery ()AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

A man repairs his typhoon-damaged home near the San Juanico bridge in Tacloban City yesterday. ERNIE PEÃ'AREDONDO (http://www.philstar.com/)

btw, loll.  any news about kiamoy?  naa ba kay nahagilap?  taga-tacloban ba siya, if i'm not mistaken?  here are hopes that she and her family are fine.

didto diay nilusot ang ginikanan sa sugo.  makapasumangil. unsa kaha no kun nadakdak ang bata sa gubaon nga lingkoranan?  maestro gihapon ang pasumanginlan nganong gipalingkod ang bata.  madaginot gyod tuod ning estoryaha.

Quote from: Lollapalooza on November 20, 2013, 10:27:26 AM
.. ang parents without explanation nagfile dayon ug blotter, with matching death threats na.. ang ending, nangayo ug P20,000.00 ang ginikanan sa maestro nga within this week dayon ..

curious lagi ko sa blotter.  giunsa kaha no?  kinahanglan sila bayran ug 20k kay sala sa maestro nga napakong ilang anak pagpunit ug papel?  aguy.  ako pa nila, kiha sila ug mangayo ug one million against the paper manufacturer kay di unta mapakong ilang anak kun way papel. 

equally culpable pod ang naghimo sa bangko mao nga napakong ilang anak.  ikiha pod nila ang school, kay sa school man napakong.  ang dep/ed, para matiwas, all the way to the education secretary, hangtod ngadto kang pnoy.  tagbaw gyod.

payt, loll, payt.  4k nahuman na, aw, 26k na lang.  better than 30k.  sige lang...

It's not that Filipinos are some happy-go-lucky people and don't care. It's a normal reaction to an abnormal situation. They're saying: 'I can deal with this. I'm at peace, and whatever happens tomorrow, happens.'

They need help, of course, but they're also saying, they're going to get by on their own if they have to.

- Todd Pitman of AP, quoting Elizabeth Protacio de Castro, UP-Manila associate professor of psychology 

Dealing with disaster has become an art, but Typhoon Haiyan was quite different. It was immense, and no amount of preparation could have prepared us to cope with it.

So rather than screaming or staring at the wall in a psychiatric ward, you do everything you can. You do your best, then let it go.

People playing music or sports in the rubble is a way of saying, 'Life goes on.' This is what they used to do every day, and they're going to keep doing it.

- Todd Pitman of AP, quoting Elizabeth Protacio de Castro, UP-Manila associate professor of psychology

Quote from: islander on November 20, 2013, 03:54:55 PM
I covered the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami in Japan, and cannot recall a single laugh. Every nation is resilient in its own way, but there is something different in the Philippines that I have not yet put my finger on.

While walking through Tacloban's ruins, I and my colleagues were almost always greeted by kind words. When I asked how people were doing, people who had lost everything said, "Good." Superficial words, of course, but combined with the smiles, and with hearing "Hey, Joe" again and again (an old World War II reference to G.I. Joe), they helped form a picture I have not encountered in other disaster zones.

Perhaps it has something to do with an expression Filipinos have: "Bahala Na." It essentially means: Whatever happens, leave it to God.

faith it is in someone more powerful than us, then.  way to go.

She hit play, and Earth, Wind and Fire's 1978 hit "September" belted out. The sea of eyes squatting on the cargo plane immediately turned radiant.

Men twirled their arms. Women swayed back and forth, and the words echoed through the plane's cargo hold:

"Do you remember ...

While chasing the clouds away,

Our hearts were ringing,

In the key that our souls were singing.

As we danced in the night. Remember,

How the stars stole the night away."


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Those who have gotten a chance to leave Tacloban have done so, of course, though many will no doubt return one day.

On Monday, I rode on a U.S. Air Force C-17 out of Tacloban to Manila, along with about 500 people displaced by the typhoon. There were babies and pregnant women. Some had tears in their eyes. One man held a doll with stuffed animal-like angel wings. He stared at it intensely, kissing it over and over.

As the plane neared Manila, an American crew member held her iPhone to her helmet's microphone, which was linked to the aircraft's speaker system.

De Castro has been counseling students in Manila who lost parents and siblings to the storm, and said some have displayed incredible determination. "They've lost their entire families, and they're telling me, 'I have to finish my studies because my parents paid my tuition through the end of the year.'"

That sense of determination is literally written in the ruins of Tacloban.

One handwritten message painted on a board outside a destroyed shop said the "eyes of the world" are on the city. It added, "Don't quit."

"So rather than screaming or staring at the wall in a psychiatric ward, you do everything you can. You do your best, then let it go," said de Castro, who helped provide psychological aid to victims of the 2004 Asia tsunami during a previous job with the U.N. Children's Fund.

People playing music or sports in the rubble, de Castro said, "is a way of saying, 'Life goes on.' This is what they used to do every day, and they're going to keep doing it."

"It's not that Filipinos are some happy-go-lucky people and don't care," she added. "It's a normal reaction to an abnormal situation. They're saying: 'I can deal with this. I'm at peace, and whatever happens tomorrow, happens.' ... They need help, of course, but they're also saying, they're going to get by on their own if they have to."