Banausic – Wordplay Wednesday™ 11/06/2019

Turn Ho Hum into Ho, Ho, Ho! 

She waved her hand at the adequate but limp landscape brushwork of the solitary tree in a meadow. Turning bored eyes to her friend, she commented lazily, “REAlly, how …

BANAUSIC (bɘ nôʹsik, -zik) adj. – 1) merely mechanical, 2) materialistic, 3) mundane or utilitarian.(For artisans or mechanics) [WW #241]

The dictionary suggests banausic is applied chiefly to artisans or mechanics; I get the artisan description—can’t you just hear the conversation in an upscale art gallery—but dahling, it’s so banausic! (Don’t forget the drawn-out “ah” sound.) But I’m hard-put to relate it to mechanics … at least, not in the auto industry.

Banausic may be more at home in advanced mechanical applications—the kind a friend at a Holiday party goes on about while we nod with glazed eyes. But let’s stop at what it is and focus on what it is not!  

No matter your activities, the Holiday season is hardly the time for banausic tasks. Go beyond the rote and swing into creativity with an eye toward the New Year—especially in your writing. Originality always pays off in business and pleasure.

Word Challenge: BANAUSIC. Make your novel characters … well … novel, as you feed banausic into their conversations, or give your editorial writings a novel word to play with, in your week of anything but banausic writings.

Learning knows no prejudices or boundaries, and it isn’t fattening! Expanding your mind is a no-cost, simple joy. Do you feel that way too? What’s your inspiration? Share your creative genius and Wordplay Wednesday comments below.

Write first for yourself … only then can you write for others. (L.Rochelle) 

Cheers to learning a new word on Wordplay Wednesday!

@PenchantForPen

@Irishwriter

[LinDee Rochelle is a writer and editor by trade, and an author by way of Rock & Roll. She has published two books (of three) in her Blast from Your Past series about pioneering R&R Radio DJs. True behind-the-mic tales make GREAT Holiday and anytime Gifts available on Amazon (eBook and print): Book 1 – Rock & Roll Radio DJs: The First Five Years 1954-1959; and Book 2 – Rock & Roll Radio DJs: The Swinging Sixties. Coming soon … The Psychedelic Seventies!]

Note: Dictionary definitions are quoted from Webster’s New World College Dictionary.

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