TheSupercargo

(Tweeting as @TSupercargo)

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Internecine: Mutually destructive or ruinous; of or relating to slaughter or carnage in warfare; of or involving conflict within a country, an organisation, a group, a family. [The word derives from the Latin internecīnus meaning slaughter, exterminate, massacre. The "inter-" prefix is here used as an intensifier. In his dictionary, however, Dr Johnson misinterpreted "inter-" to mean between, and defined the word as meaning "endeavoring mutual destruction", a sense it continues to have today.]
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Greetings! There’s no internecine struggle between @TheSupercargo and his alter ego. We are agreed about delivering the following round-up!

As ever, the Artwiculati produced an interesting crop of Artwicutweets – if not quite as many as with other WOTDs.

In my long-list, I find I have been particularly impressed by @marcosarroyos’s contributions and also by @TiddK’s and @Helacious’s too.

But, sticking to my principles, it’s only 1 tweet for each person nevertheless. (Still, you can always go and look at their profile pages.)

As most player’s surely know by now, the WOTD is one of those lexicographical gems that … well I’ll let @chemingineer tell it

RT @chemingineer Samuel Johnson defined internecine wrongly in his great dictionary and the rest is history. #artwiculate

Regardless of what it OUGHT to mean, what it means now is mutually destructive struggle. @NeelaVanam defined it with a cinematic reference

RT @NeelaVanam ‘The Godfather’ revolves around the internecine warfare of a mafia family. #artwiculate

@alex_auron took us back to the Cold War

RT @alex_auron Internecine: mutually assured destruction, or simply MAD.

And @poemblaze1 reached back to World War One

RT @poemblaze1 The great houses of Europe ~ launched their internecine war ~ after two shots in a Sarajevo street. #micropoetry #artwiculate

(And @marcosarroyos went all the way back to Cain and Able – but I’m not quoting that one!)

@fox2go gave us a Machiavellian poem

RT @fox2go #haikuchallenge #artwiculate Absentee leader; internecine dark squabbles; Machiavelli’s back

@MissKayenne referenced the on-going political struggle in the USA

RT @MissKayenne ~ Republican or ~ Democrat? Internecine ~ In United States ~ // #artwiculate #haiku

But whoever wins the battle, what kind of a victory can it ever be? @SJHatzi knows

RT @SJHatzi Internecine win: a Pyrrhic victory.

Another aspect of the word, of course, (touched on in some of the previous quoted tweets) is the close, familial sense it includes.

RT @micahpedia With my family any kind of reunion always ends up an internecine fracas. #artwiculate

(Mine too, @micahpedia, mine too!)

And with another filmic reference, @ariandalen reminds us of school days. Well, JK Rowling’s school days perhaps.

RT @ariandalen “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” Talk about your internecine conflict! #artwiculate

(Oh, and while we’re referencing films, I’ll shoehorn in my chosen @marcosarroyos tweet for the day)

RT @marcosarroyos Internecine : Italian for an intern in film making.

Of course, some people have relationships that appear to be nothing more than struggle, as @Tralala56 points out

RT @Tralala56 Many thought of Madge and Tim’s relationship as internecine, little did they understand the thrill that it procured and the bond it created.

To which @Nickpbonwick counters with this

RT @Nickpbonwick It was never really love / At times obscene / There was no truth / purely internecine

@TiddK shared a story of thwarted love

RT @TiddK Tweedledum and Tweedledee ~ Both fancied the same girl ~ Their internecine rivalry ~ Saw tragedy unfurl ~ (she joined a nunnery)

(It doesn’t matter who won – both lost. harking back to Silia’s Pyrrhic victory.)

@sgwarnog gave us another illustrative image

RT @sgwarnog bush shudders ~ with internecine chatter ~ sparrows jostling ~ for the best ~ perch #artwiculate #gogyohka

In human terms that bush of sparrows become @dsceiorg’s collective of female impersonators

RT @dsceiorg Collective nouns: An elaboration of costumes; A spackle of cosmetics; An internecine of drag queens #artwiculate
[When the dust settled, it was this tweet that had won the crown.]

And it seems somehow appropriate to follow with this from @beezknez

RT @beezknez Internecine ~ cant beat fashion #artwiculate

@CreoleEloquence had a thought to share about internal struggles which neatly introduces the third focus of many of today’s tweets.

RT @CreoleEloquence Internecine strife between her memories and her greying head made for a ghastly crinkly retro 70′s-style updo this morning.

While @ultracutebot identified another internal struggle which I imagine many of us recognise

RT @ultracutebot whenever i try to stop tweeting for the night, an internecine scuffle between my practical side & my lexicon-crack addicted side ensues…..

I’m going to finish off with a rush of different Artwicutweets that I’m too tired to fit into catagories – but I liked them.

First is @harrarp’s medicinal usage

RT @harrarp Someone told me I need to get my head examined. There were days when I took that kind of advice seriously. Now I use internecine.

Then @LorcanDesperado’s glittering title

RT @LorcanDesperado Internecine is a many splendoured thing #LesserBooks

Another book, this one from @mazpowles

RT @mazpowles The runaway bestseller ‘He’s Just Not That Internecine’ is a self-help book for compulsive pacifists.

@helacious asked a pertinent question

RT @helacious Do mercenaries apply for internecine internships before becoming professional warriors?

And @honeygloom expresed a (slightly disturbing) delight in the feel of the word

RT @honeygloom Slaughter is a messy word, bludgeoned, splattered. Internecine cuts like a slick blade.

I wonder who @runheidi is describing here … the name Margaret Thatcher drifts into my head, but that probably dates me.

RT @runheidi Her pastimes include hate-mongering and internecine strife. I’m sure she’ll have a long and rewarding political life. #artwiculate

RT @essence_me Internecine was a great band, with the loudest rocking mayhem on stage but they broke up after every gig and could never finish the tour

Yeah, @essence_me, they were great … if you once managed to see them!

Loved the following from @bookdreamer

RT @bookdreamer The Internecine were the militant arm of the Franciscans #artwiculate

And let’s finish with some fruit from @FrankSiddarta …

RT @FrankSiddarta The Wars of the Peach and the Nectarine were brutal – but the desserts were truly internecine

… and some more from @languagenhumor …

RT @languagenhumor British “limey” sailors replaced the earlier “peachy” ones, who were victims of internec(tar)ine violence. #artwiculate (internecine)

… and a drink in bar at Salon Artwois with @I2Haiku

RT @I2Haiku Our internecine drink of the day is a Bloody Mary. #Artwiculate

Cheers!

Well, folks, that was another round-up from @TheSupercargo and his DoppelJohn.

Greetings to newcomers to the round-up @poemblaze1, @MissKayenne who have both been playing the game for awhile and especial greetings to @sgwarnog who has just fallen into the ant-lion sand-pit we call Artwiculate.

That’s all from me for this time. Good night!

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Artwiculate is a game played on Twitter. Visit http://artwiculate.com for more information. The winning tweet and the most popular runners up for today’s word are listed at http://www.artwiculate.com/words/internecine (And, for addicts, don’t forget Salon ArtWois at http://www.salonartwois.com/ )

(Tweeting as @TSupercargo)

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Draconian : Of or resembling a dragon (obsolete except in fiction and Artwicutweets); Very severe, oppressive or strict.
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Greetings, Artwiculati! Rather out of my and @TheSupercargo’s comfort zone this evening, working on a borrowed computer.

Nevertheless, the draconian pressure of my desire to tweet yet another RT round-up cannot be denied.

Today’s word gave us a fine collection of tweets to rummage among. Not surprisingly, Dragons were much in evidence.

My heart particularly went out to @TiddK’s dragon called Ian

RT @TiddK Ian the dragon was very sad. Whoever was going to be scared of a dragon called Ian? #DraconIan #artwiculate

And in @dsceiorg’s dungeon, we found Puff

RT @dsceiorg Perdiccas, we will need to switch to more draconian measures. “Yes, sir, I’ll get Puff. He is still in Honalee?” #artwiculate

@beezknez shared a sad tale about Drac

RT @beezknez Drac short for Dragon?had fallen off the wagon?Under Draconian law punishment was Community Service?Kitchen Hand for Vlad the Impaler

@Elixir_Z gave us a conversation between George and the Dragon

RT @Elixir_Z Come on, Dragon, let’s get a drink and talk about it, said St George. “I know a pub you’ll like – the measures are strictly draconian.”

@LBY3 envisioned draconarchy

RT @LBY3 @artwiculate Draconian: Why you’re pretty much doubly screwed if your country is run by dragons.

And is France perhaps a country run by dragons, @emmaexpress?

RT @emmaexpress The more draconian the rule, the more fun it is to break it. #canyoutellIliveinFrance? #artwiculate

RT @twilobite22 The draconian ruler was nothing but a darn icon. #anagram#3

@twilobite22 gave us three nice anagrams – that was my favourite.

@harrarp used the WOTD to reflect on current US political conditions

RT @harrarp For 50 points, fingers on the buzzer, who was the odd one out at the tea party: Draconian, Apollonian or Sarahpalian?

In respect of the dragons who rule @SJHatzi had this suggestion

RT @SJHatzi Anyone passing laws (draconian or not), or deciding to go to war should first be willing to test it on their first-born.

Nice idea, Silia, but I fear it will take a particulary draconian Old Testament God to make that happen

Finally in this sequence, @pegasuepy asked a pertinent question

RT @pegasuepy Draconian rules? Where is this place Draconia anyway?

Moving away from politics, @ariandalen drew our attention to the sleeping dragon beneath our feet

RT @ariandalen Buildings shake and sway ~ A draconian shudder ~ Dreaming in deep earth. #artwiculate #haiku

And (this is a bit of a lame segue, but chthonic means underworld so) @eilonwya10 shared the following

RT @eilonwya10 The chthonic appalls the Apollonian: too much bacchanalia makes them go all draconian. #artwiculate

Children and the WOTD seemed to go together as well, in school and out. Let’s kick off with @marcosarroyos

RT @marcosarroyos Conficius say: Children with draconian parents enjoy making trouble

And – a warning to just those parents from @alex_auron

RT @alex_auron Raise children in a draconian way; but don’t be surprised to see them grow scales and expel fire from their mouths at each other.

But children can be small dragons even without drac0nian parents as @mazpowles can testify

RT @mazpowles Kids are really draconian. I asked a class to design the ‘perfect classroom’ half of them had a dungeon with torture chamber. #truestory

On the other hand as several Artwiculati noted, teachers may also be draconic. Here’s @JonPowles on the subject

RT @JonPowles There was an English schoolmaster/whose rules were quite draconian/His nickname for his favourite cane/was “Roger, Old Etonian”

Literary children dipped their toes in the Artwiculate stream too, here’s a Potter-related tweet from @Tralala56

RT @Tralala56 Draco Malfoy was draconian about mudbloods. That’s what made him so dislikeable! #wellchosencharacternames

Definitions next, from @silverne, @Ameeee, @TOCSY1 and @asim7asim

RT @silverne Draconian : Days of depression #artwiculate

I liked @silverne’s because of the alliteration as well as the image which certainly strikes a chord with me

RT @Ameeee Draconian measures: Women’s clothing sizes.

RT @TOCSY1 Draconian dinner menu: Gruel and unusual punishment…

RT @asim7asim Draconian : cruelty of snakes. #artwiculate

And I liked @asim7asim’s because it reminds me the word for dragon and snake in the old Germanic languages is the same (Orm).

@19ish slipped a reference to The Bard into a funny slogan

RT @19ish At Draconian Drycleaning, if a spot won’t come out, we just cut it out! Out, damned spot! Out, I say! #artwiculate
[And won a crown in the process!]

And @BurningHawk1969′s Barbie made me think of Susan, DEATH’s granddaughter in the Discworld

RT @BurningHawk1969 Draconian Barbie chases the monster back under the bed and kicks its ass. #artwiculate

Here’s another literary reference from @helacious – brought a Swed-ish smile to my face.

RT @helacious Draconian standards in marching band. One bad day on the drums and I was out. The Girl With the Draggin’ Tattoo, they called me.

@FrankSiddarta gave us a comic image of a dragon girl

RT @FrankSiddarta I knew a girl, draconian – her heart made from zirconium – and when she spoke – her words aflame – in clouds of pure ammonium

While @Ysabeluna gave us a much more serious little love poem

RT @Ysabeluna \ i touch you \ i felt glass \ so close, yet remote \ you’re on my screen\ draconian pain\ #artwiculate #Gpoem #gogyohka

Finally I’ll wind up this round-up with @OsmarJardim’s plaintive tweet.

RT @OsmarJardim Yesterday macabre. Today draconian. And love, happiness, peace … when?

And on that note, I thank you all for your attention!

Greetings to occasional Artwiculator @pegasuepy who appears in the round-up for the first time.

Greetings also to @Elixir_Z – a newcomer to the game I believe.

That’s me done for today. Handing you back to @TheSupercargo now. (Exits pursued by dragons).

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Artwiculate is a game played on Twitter. Visit http://artwiculate.com for more information. The winning tweet and the most popular runners up for today’s word are listed at http://www.artwiculate.com/words/Draconian (And, for addicts, don’t forget Salon ArtWois at http://www.salonartwois.com/ )

(Tweeting as @TSupercargo)

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Rhetoric: the art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade; Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress
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Good evening, good people. (It’s evening again from my horizon.) And welcome to another RT round-up from @TheSupercargo’s alter ego.

Today we have well-nigh drowned in a sea of tweets masquerading as political rhetoric.

Still, I am pleased to be able to share a few pearls gleaned from the stream.

Not surprisingly, a good many tweets today commented on the OTHERs …

RT @chemingineer #artwiculate will be full of rhetoric and very little substance today.

Oh yes, @chemingineer, it certainly was!

A closer study of some of the non-Artwiculate (in some cases in-Articulate) tweets caused me to nod sagely at @19ish’s tweet.

RT @19ish When I use rhetoric, it’s scintillating & intelligent. When YOU use rhetoric, it’s bombastic bloviation! See the diff? #artwiculate

And @Calum_MacDonald put an ironic finger on a perspective that seemed to unite political tweeters of every pursuasion.

RT @Calum_MacDonald It may be Rhetoric but I mean every word #artwiculate

(Irony is a rhetorical trope BTW) Rhetoric in political mudslinging seems more a word of accusation than what Wikipedia describes as “the art of using language to communicate effectively & persuasively.” Sort of like:

RT @kado56 Hang out your dirty linen, oh loudmouths, display your rhetoric, grimy and dripping, mangled beyond recognition and hope to impress?

Or:

RT @wes_james My rhetoric is as follows: I utilize gargantuan idioms to fabricate intelligence. #artwiculate

Or indeed:

RT @nestersan One drop phenakism, two drops idealism, a pinch of melodrama, a cup of zeal, filter with lamprophony and you get pure distilled rhetoric

The second major focus of today’s Artwiculate tweets was the art of rhetoric itself.

One Big Name rhetorician was Demosthenes, he who spoke around pebbles to improve his diction – something @alex_auron found a tad ironic.

RT @alex_auron Demosthenes is my name; rhetoric is my life; how ironic then that I can’t even pronounce it!Now where did I put those pebbles? #artwiculate

@helacious (who had a another really good day in my opinion) gave this fine illustrative example of a rhet0rical phrase.

RT @helacious I have mastered rhetoric, so that it will not master me/And there you have an example of antimetabole!

And @rascality gave us another:

RT @rascality In love no less than in rhetoric, aposiopesis is simply bad manners. #artwiculate

@mazpowles suggested some rules for rhet0ric – not entirely tongue in cheek I think. May favourite was the third.

RT @mazpowles 3rd rule of rhetoric – if you can’t think of anything to say come up with a list of 3.

Three important aspects of rhet0ric appeared in two tweets. One from @JonPowles

RT @JonPowles The three musketeers of rhetoric were Logos, Ethos and Pathos. Hopeless fencers, but jeez they could talk a good sword fight

The other from @the7minutestar

RT @the7minutestar Rhetoric had 3 children: Ethos, the charismatic leader. Logos who loved to argue. Pathos, the emotional girl. #artwiculate

And Logic also made a solo appearance in @pn8r’s tweet here:

RT @pn8r And they’re off! Rhetoric, the reigning champ, has a commanding lead… but in a stunning turn of events, Logic actually wins for once!

I think @MaltaGoddess’s rhetorical question deserves a place here too.

RT @MaltaGoddess What part of spare me your jeremiad & miasmatic rhetoric transgressing upon my haecceity & omphaloskepsis do you not understand?

My one attempt at a tweet today played on the sound similarity of the WOTD with Rhett Butler from Gone With The Wind.

I was not the only one.

RT @soarski Scarlett: Rhett… if you go, where shall I go, what shall I do? Rhetoric Butler: Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.

And

RT @dsceiorg Perdiccas, the prisoner is trying to fool us with rhetoric. “I love Clark Gable, but that won’t work on me.” #artwiculate

@twilobite22 gave us some appropriate anagrams

RT @twilobite22 Is a person spewing rhetoric a hot crier? Or one who can torch ire? #anagramX2

And @I2Haiku was talked into an expensive date

RT @I2Haiku Ms Rhetoric took me to a fancy French restaurant; I didn’t want to go, but she talked me into it. #Artwiculate

A number of non-players today seemed to be suffering from boring teaching. Their pain was felt by @LorcanDesperado

RT @LorcanDesperado Many of us drift off into woolgathering while listening to lengthy and monotonous rhetoric. #artwiculate

@cyberbonn took us to heaven

RT @cyberbonn There is no rhetoric at the pearly gates, just a pithy “Welcome!!!” #artwiculate

@Tralala56 shared the skeleton of a new reality show – one I’d like to see

RT @Tralala56 Rhetoric – the new reality show: 6 handsome men must use their linguistic powers of persuasion to win the heart of a gorgeous redhead.

And @dmriver made use of another rhetorical trope

RT @dmriver Is a missing shoe punctuation for limp rhetoric?

I’ll wind up with four (and a half) poems of increasing seriousness. The half is a twisted quote from @mortythemouth

RT @mortythemouth Words to the left of me,phrases to the right,stuck in the middle with rhetoric. #Artwiculate

I wonder who @runheidi can be talking about in this?

RT @runheidi As you listen to her rhetoric, consider yourself warned. The woman may seem human, but ‘neath the coif she’s horned. #artwiculate

@beezknez shared this evocative if rather sombre image

RT @beezknez You have gone to far ~ to be heard ~ there is only ~ the wear and tear ~ of your rhetoric ~ like a worn out welcome mat

To finish, two love poems. The first from @bookdreamer

RT @bookdreamer What words, what rhetoric, what sounds could capture the music of your walk, the honey of your lips, the fire of your eyes. #artwiculate

And from @TiddK

RT @TiddK Your rhetoric falls on deaf ears / Smooth words do not impress me / But when you kiss away my tears / That’s when I melt : caress me!

And that’s another round-up done and dusted!

Greetings to Artwiculate newcomer @wes_james, relative newcomer @alex_auron and established player but new to the round-up @nestersan

And a big Welcome back, mate! to @dmriver who has been sidetracked from the game by real life. (It rained – he’s been farming.)

That’s yer lot! About 2 hours left to tweet – and vote. Go to it, good Artwiculati! Handing back to @TheSupercargo now.
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Artwiculate is a game played on Twitter. Visit http://artwiculate.com for more information. The winning tweet and the most popular runners up for today’s word are listed at http://www.artwiculate.com/words/Rhetoric (And, for addicts, don’t forget Salon ArtWois at http://www.salonartwois.com/ )

(Tweeting as @TSupercargo)

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Nugatory : Trivial, trifling or of little importance; Ineffective, invalid or futile.
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Greetings Artwiculati! Here comes another nugatory RT round-up from the being lurking in @TheSupercargo’s back-brain.

RT @ten_ten_ten ‘That’s a nugatory 10-4 good buddy, we got ourselves an artwiculate convoy!’

Thank you @ten_ten_ten! And what an apporpriate word it was for us to play with today. Don’t you agree?

RT @SJHatzi I’m with Michelangelo on the nugatory: “Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”

Well, I suppose there IS another side to the coin, Silia. But I was thinking more of this …

RT @BurningHawk1969 What light dares to span / the gulf of nugatory life / Wasted on word games? #Haiku #LQW

There was an interesting sub-theme today (well, interesting for me as an expat Englishman)

RT @the7minutestar The Tory turned a mug upside down and uttered, “Nugatory – it’s empty!” #artwiculate

Tory = Conservative in British politics (for those not focused on our small corner)

RT @harrarp Let me tell you about the time when a nugatory and a nugalibdem formed a nugacoalition.

That was a nugatale and a half! Then @kings_indian countered with …

RT @kings_indian Me nugatory,you belabour #BritPolitics

And finally a proto-Texan (possibly from Essex) from @marcosarroyos’s cast of characters

RT @marcosarroyos The British hooligan overheard someone say nugatory, he thought she said, “mug a Tory,” so he did so right away.

Politics, eh! Where would we be without it?

I think @micahpedia gave us a description of a politician (but maybe my prejudices are showing)

RT @micahpedia His prose consisted of a bland outer layer with a nugatory filling

And @dsceiorg provided another instalment of his dictionary of collectives for the modern age:

RT @dsceiorg Collective nouns: A cacophony of political campaigns; A negotiation of platforms; A nugatory of promises #artwiculate

And in a deeper delve into US politics @CreoleEloquence gave us the #Shakespalin!

RT @CreoleEloquence What nugatory thought did move Caribou Barbie to equivocate herself to Shakespeare? #artwiculate #Shakespalin

Politics also involves statesmanship, something not always in evidence internationally.

RT @chemingineer The intransigence of the two warring parties threatened to turn the peace talks into a nugatory exercise. #artwiculate

Which can lead to papering over cracks or even using sticking plaster, as @beezknez pointed out.

RT @beezknez Band aids ~ for bullet holes ~ Nugatory ~ Cosmetics #artwiculate

Next, the similarity in pronunciation and spelling between the WOTD and Nougat, as in …

RT @TiddK I told Wanda the WOTD. She thought I said “Nougat, for me?” I didn’t have the heart to tell her No. I’m off to the shop. #nugatory

But remember …

RT @LorcanDesperado Nougat is not nugatory for those with decayed or loose teeth. #artwiculate

And (particularly – um – poignant for those of us with experience of them …)

RT @amanuel187 Nugatory? The inside of weight loss candy bars.

On the subject of food – er “food” – there were also a number of tweets that played with chicken nuggets. For example:

RT @Charm47 Nugatory…a plant where chicken nuggets are manufactured #artwiculate

The WOTD also plays a role in relationships between people.

RT @kuppilidivya nugatory : life looks nugatory without the person u love, in it !!!

But what if your love is not returned?

RT @mazpowles The real poignancy of unrequited love lies in the hours spent decoding each utterly nugatory word and gesture.

But if love is requited it may lead to – well, take it away @Ysabeluna!

RT @Ysabeluna \wedding,obligatory \honeymoon,mandatory \ marital squabbles,derogatory \divorce,statutory \reason for separation, nugatory \ #artwiculate

Oh, if only:

RT @lagadu123 What if the world’s population were a jigsaw, each of us a same-sized piece, of equal worth? No-one would be nugatory.

*sings* What a wonderful world that would be! *sings*

Are we getting into moral territory here? What’s that @helacious? Oh, right, not moral, ethical:

RT @helacious I took a course in Extreme Ethics, and most of my actions went from nugatory to supererogatory in a single week!

Apparently there really _is_ something called Extreme Ethics. I learn new things every time I do one of the round-ups.

And after life?

RT @kado56 Purgatory is for the Big Sinners, nugatory is for little ones

Though I doubt whether James Bond – or indeed Agent 000 – will be going there.

RT @Eridanus “There’s a plot to eliminate Agent 000, Bond.” “Agent Nugatory? A mere database default option!” “Precisely, 007. Investigate!”

Perhaps @coinopratdchris knows someone who can help Bond.

RT @coinopratdchris Look, Nugatory Man has arrived at the crime scene! Too bad the Competent Cadets already rounded up the villains!

Meanwhile, off Broadway (or Shaftsbury Avenue for people with a London horizon) …

RT @bwlightning Another flop at Nugatory Theatre- maundering about the stage, lost for lamprophony, like it’s all work & no play #artwiculate

Further into the surreal with @DrMobs

RT @DrMobs Game on tryout, /May not go true. /Too angry. Mute. /Not my outrage / Nugatory to me #anagrampoetry

Oh dear, this round-up is in danger of

RT @cyberbonn Spinning out of control in cyberspace, a black hole where nugatory tweets amass. #artwiculate

Quick, @osmarjardim! Help me drag it back.

RT @osmarjardim Nugatory is ~ Japanese short form poetry ~ nugatori is. #haiku

Erm …

RT @tama001 The adjective of Newgate is Newgatory (nugatory). #artwiculate

Well thanks for you help Miaou, but …

RT @TOCSY1 His nugatory swings on the tee led to a charge of feckless driving

Oh come on fellows, this is a serious word! A trivial one, to be sure, but – help me here @Tralala56

RT @Tralala56 When you’re young what people think of you is really important. When you’re old, it’s nugatory.

Ah, a breath of sanity!

We old people don’t care a jot what what other peopel think of us, do we @TheSupercargo? What do you mean “Speak for yourself”?

I want to close (for once) on a downbeat. I really liked this haiku from @bookdreamer

RT @bookdreamer nugatory life~empty bed, a silent phone~the tick-tock counted #haiku #artwiculate

Deep breath. OK my friends, that was the RT round-up for today.

Welcome to @micahpedia – a new to Artwiculate for this month it looks like. And greetings to @kuppilidivya, an occasional player, but first time collected in an round-up.

Thanks as ever to all the Artwiculati for providing me with the raw material for this.

Artwiculate says there’s still time to tweet, vote and RT, so I say: Go for it! Till next time, handing back to @TheSupercargo.

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Artwiculate is a game played on Twitter. Visit http://artwiculate.com for more information. The winning tweet and the most popular runners up for today’s word are listed at http://www.artwiculate.com/words/Nugatory (And, for addicts, don’t forget Salon ArtWois at http://www.salonartwois.com/ )

(Tweeting as @TSupercargo)

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Phenakism: Deception; trickery.
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Greetings, Artwiculati! @TheSupercargo and his doppleganger are ready with another RT round-up – and this is no phenakism! This was clearly a word that struck a chord with many of us – with 13 pages of tweets and 3 hours left to go.

Mind you, it’s such an obscure word some of us were less than charmed. But while some (@TheSupercargo, for one) just moaned others used it appropriately. Viz:

RT @JonPowles Phenakism? You’re pulling my leg.

Humour and humorous illustrations were in my opinion more successful with this word. There was a raft to enjoy.

RT @TiddK At Phenakism Inc., the deceptionist always smiles sweetly at you and says “Mr Brown will see you in a moment”. #artwiculate

Loved “deceptionist” @TiddK!

RT @mazpowles Dear Ms Powles, Please excuse Delilah from the Maths test. She is suffering from a severe case of phenakism. Signed, my mum.

Bad judgement, Delilah! An English teacher might ALMOST let you off for that … but never a Maths teacher.

RT @Tralala56 As the train entered Phenakism, the passengers took out their decks of cards and started playing “Cheat”!

(And all the decks of cards were marked, of course.)

RT @twilobite22 The spy’s phenakism was so advanced, no one knew if he or she was a double or triple agent. #artwiculate

(And the spy him/her self was not 100% sure either.)

RT @californiakara Phenakism? I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

(Did you hear the one about the American who bought London Bridge under the impression he was getting Tower Bridge?)

RT @marcosarroyos Ancient used boat sales techinques : Phoenician phenakism

RT @lexiconehead If it smacks of phenakism, it’s a serial cereal ad campaign.

We really don’t like salespeople, do we?

Cheating partners come in for their share of the stick too.

RT @essence_me I did not mean to cheat on you, I suffer from Phenakism, 1 in 56 men suffer from it, they even have a support group: Tricks of Trade

I read @essence_me’s tweet & it coloured my view of the sincerity of @I2Haiku’s speaker in the next. See if it does the same to you.

RT @I2Haiku Please forgive my phenakism / I was afraid / if you knew / how I really felt / I’d never see you again #artwiculate #gogyohka

Setting those two against one another is just mean, I know. Here are some more uses that are more rather than less serious.

RT @chemingineer Life – God’s Phenakism. #artwiculate

RT @rafat4d A castle of sand named ‘trust’ / A tsunami named ‘Phenakism.

RT @sanmeera In Hinduism, it’s Maya. In phenakism, it’s trickery. #artwiculate

Last I looked no one had RT’d that tweet by @sanmeera. A pity. It’s a nice juxtaposition of -isms and a clever way of defining Maya.

Here’s another, very different, nice use of the -ism in the WOTD.

RT @the7minutestar Communism, Capitalism, Phenakism. #artwiculate

@SJHatzi took up my challenge to use as many earlier WOTDs as possible in a tweet and produced this fine definition of the WOTD.

RT @SJHatzi Phenakism: Odious, glib, ignoble, clancular, nefarious, noisome, pusillanimous, mercenary, vulpine, furtive, obdurate poltroons & caitiffs.

Wow, Fourteen WOTDs! It doesn’t beat my own 16 though. (*modestly polishing his fingernails*) Can anyone do better?!

I’ll pair @SJHatzi’s with @lagadu123′s now

RT @lagadu123 Phenakism: sounds hollow, tastes of humbug, looks like flannel, feels phony, smells of rat.

A lovely series of appropriate idioms – and all the five senses too.

@mortythemouth gave us a great tongue-twister, which I’ve been trying to read aloud today – attracting some curious gazes as a consequence.

RT @mortythemouth Politicians practice phenakism,packing panelists polls,pampering poor people,passing pamphlets,panhandling prophet philosophy. #Artwiculate

And still on the edge of Alliteration Fields, here’s a game reference to an earlier WOTD

RT @19ish Phirst Phenakism: Eden’s Anguine Asp #artwiculate

A visit to an alternative history next with @harrarp

RT @harrarp Early cinema! Phenakism: The phenakitoscope was designed by Yannis Z. Phenakis.

And while in tinsle town

RT @Wifsie RIP: The Phenakism twins – Liar, Liar. #articulate #movies

From the Movies to Nursery Tales now …

RT @kado56 “Oh Grandma – thought you could outfox us with THOSE ears!!” “Humph, this fennecism is not all it pretends” # phenakism

(I had to Google fennecism. You can too!)

Here’s great pun from @amanuel187 that seems to fit in with @kado56′s foxy tweet.

RT @amanuel187 Phenakism? All the wile.

@dsceiorg shared some WOTD rhymes.

RT @dsceiorg Phenakism / Cataclysm / Masochism / Catechism / Rhymes for my sex life #gogyohka #artwiculate

How often do you hear about phrenology? @FrankSiddarta made the connection, and I rather think he coined a new word along the way.

RT @FrankSiddarta I knew that phrenology was phenakism – I should never have let that phrenakist take a slice out of my skull.

RT @rascality The presenter at a behavioral neuroscience conference did not disclose his Freudian training; it was his private phenakism. #artwiculate

I love the idea of that Freudian presenter hugging his secret identity to himself.

My final tweet comes from @helacious. I think it’s really very clever.

RT @helacious The Phenomenology of Phenakism: it is what it appears to be, even when it is not.

There you have it. Another bumper haul of 26 brilliant tweets from the weird and wonderful collection of minds who play Artwiculate.

Greetings to @the7minutestar who has just joined the ranks of the Artwiculati. Greetings also to @sanmeera who has been playing a while, but now debuts in the Rt round-up. And a big “G’day” to @JonPowles, who I’ve not seen for awhile.

That’s all I have for you this time around, good people. Hope you enjoyed it. Handing back to @TheSupercargo now.

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Artwiculate is a game played on Twitter. Visit http://artwiculate.com for more information. The winning tweet and the most popular runners up for today’s word are listed at http://www.artwiculate.com/words/Phenakism (And, for addicts, don’t forget Salon ArtWois at http://www.salonartwois.com/ )