Seth in CA (for the summer) » word of the day http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sethinca Computer science and California 26 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:38:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Word of the day http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sethinca/2006/06/11/word-of-the-day/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sethinca/2006/06/11/word-of-the-day/#comments Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:00:30 +0000 Seth Flaxman http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sethinca/2006/06/11/word-of-the-day/ This weeks’s word of the week is “confabulate” (by way of Ha’aretz). Definition #2 is the more interesting one:

con·fab·u·late (kən-făb‘yə-lāt‘) pronunciation
intr.v., -lat·ed, -lat·ing, -lates.

  1. To talk casually; chat.
  2. Psychology. To fill in gaps in one’s memory with fabrications that one believes to be facts.

[Latin cōnfābulārī, cōnfābulāt- : com-, com- + fābulārī, to talk (from fābula, conversation; see fable).]

Which reminds me: I forgot to about Friday abstract art blogging! Or did I?

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