Oct. 24th, 2001
Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy
Oct. 24th, 2001 05:38 pmanx·ious (
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s,
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adj.
[From Latin
nxius, from angere, to torment. See angh- in Indo-European Roots.]
anx
ious·ly adv.
anx
ious·ness n.






adj.
- Uneasy and apprehensive about an uncertain event or matter; worried.
- Attended with, showing, or causing anxiety: spent an anxious night waiting for the test results.
- Usage Problem. Eagerly or earnestly desirous.
[From Latin

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Usage Note: Anxious has a long history of use roughly as a synonym for eager, but many prefer that anxious be used only when its subject is worried or uneasy about the anticipated event. In the traditional view, one may say We are anxious to see the strike settled soon but not We are anxious to see the new show of British sculpture at the museum. Fifty-two percent of the Usage Panel rejects anxious in the latter sentence. But general adoption of anxious to mean eager is understandable, at least in colloquial discourse, since it provides a means of adding emotional urgency to an assertion. It implies that the subject so strongly desires a certain outcome that frustration of that desire will lead to unhappiness. In this way, it resembles the informal adjective dying in sentences such as I'm dying to see your new baby.
THE EAGLE HAS LANDED
Oct. 24th, 2001 09:42 pm"It was a good sandwhich and she actually with me" Dan says.
Never write something of significance while on the phone. Here's the english version.
I'm on the phone with Dan right now. He's in his hotel in beautiful downtown Buffalo, A lady shared her sandwhich on the plane with him.
I quote:
"It was a good sandwhich and she actually talked to me."