4 June 2015

exophasia

[ek-soh-fey-zhuh, -zhee-uh]

noun
1. ordinary, vocalized, audible speech.

Compare endophasia.

Origin of exophasia
< New Latin; see exo-, -phasia

Dictionary.com

Example

– He called it ‘thinking out loud’, but his wife was exasperated by his constant exophasia with himself whenever he was making a decision.

– On the other hand, the terms ‘exophasia’ and ‘endophasia’ to label audible speech and sub-vocal speech seem to me to be examples of the second type, jargon; they have no advantages over simpler everyday terms’.
(Linguistics and the Teacher, Volume 112 Page 120, by Ronald Carter)

Anagram

Ex Asia Hop
Pi sea hoax

Today’s quote

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

– Henry Rollins

On this day

4 June 1988 – death of Sir Douglas Nichols KCVO, OBE. Aboriginal activist, raising awareness of aboriginal issues, including treating aborigines with dignity and as people. He played for Carlton football club in the A-grade Victorian Football League (VFL), leaving after racist treatment and joining the Northcote football club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). Nicholls became a minister and social worker. In 1957, he was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE). In 1972 he was the first aborigine to be knighted. In 1976, he became the 28th governor of South Australia, the first aborigine to be appointed to a vice-regal position. He was born on 9 December 1906.

4 June 1989 – Tiananmen Square massacre, Beijing, China. Around a million people had flooded into Tiananmen Square over the past few days, protesting for democracy. On 4 June, the Chinese Army stormed the Square with tanks and armoured cars, killing hundreds of protestors, while arresting thousands of others.