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April Fool's Day
Is it "April Fool's Day" or "April Fools' Day?"
I know it doesn't matter anymore, not
really, but I still care. How many fools
are we talking about, here? One, or many?
I hope it's many, because that's generally
more fun. While too many cooks spoil the
broth, there's no such thing as too many fools.
Let idiocy reign!
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Carol Bly, who
got me all fired up about connections between neuroscience and morality and art.
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- Minneapolis, MN, United States
- From 1700s Italy, "dilettante" originally meant "lover of the arts," but became a pejorative when professionalism took hold during the 18th century. A dilettante became a mere lover of art as opposed to one who earned a living from it. Today, the word refers to a poseur, or one pretending to be an artist. synonyms: dabbler, sciolist, dilettanteish, dilettantish, sciolistic Usage Examples “It’s better up here away from the phonies and the dilettantes. Here I can do what I want and no one comes to sneer. You’re not a sneerer, are you?” - Flowers for Algernon ‘There were no scientists in Stuart England,’ we are told, ‘and all the men we have grouped together under that heading were in their varying degrees dilettantes.’ - The Invention of Science Charles wasn’t a dilettante; he was serious about the breeding and created his own new lines of pigeons. - Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith source: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/dilettante