Everything I do is exotic and glamorous. Said nobody ever. True, I do enjoy the volunteering I do on many fronts, as a representative of my local, state and national trade associations, but also as a volunteer for a couple other local and state organizations. But before all the outreach and networking we get accomplished, all those things have to be planned and researched and tested. SO, that is what we did for most of the day. I had a meeting at 8 o'clock this morning, and it was a planning session for our TREPAC Leadership. Then committee meetings, then a quick (and very fun) video session, then a working lunch, then committee presentations til we adjourned just before 4 o'clock this afternoon. Now is the time to put all our plans the work into action.Polemic -- Noun. 1a. an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another. b. the art or practice of disputation. 2. disputant. The author resorts to polemic rather than using data to refute existing research.
Did You Know? When polemic was borrowed into English from the French polemique in the mid-17th century, it referred (as it still can) to a type of hostile attack on someone's ideas. The word traces back to the Greek polemikos, which means "warlike" or "hostile" and in turn comes from the Greek noun polemos, meaning "war." Other, considerably less common descendants of polemos in English include polemarch ("a chieftain or military commander in ancient Greece"), polemoscope (a kind of binoculars with an oblique mirror), and polemology ("the study of war").
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