Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Somber News (and now for a commercial break)

Extracted from Google News Australia

Daily Telegraph - 1 hour ago
FORMER South African president PW Botha died at his home in the Western Cape today. Quick and easy recipes and win the chance to pamper to your mum... Simply Food in tomorrow's The Daily Telegraph newspaper.


Pretty jarring transition. Can't really blame computer robots. They are just robots after all.
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3 comments:

  1. dearieme9:02 am

    Sombre?

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  2. Colin Campbell10:22 am

    som·ber (smbr)
    adj.
    1.
    a. Dark; gloomy.
    b. Dull or dark in color.
    2.
    a. Melancholy; dismal: a somber mood.
    b. Serious; grave.

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    [French sombre, from Old French, from *sombrer, to cast a shadow, from Late Latin subumbrre, from Latin sub umbr, in shadow : sub, under; see sub- + umbr, ablative of umbra, shadow.]

    sombre

    adj 1: grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood" [syn: somber] 2: lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan gray"; "children in somber brown clothes" [syn: drab, sober, somber]

    So yes (and no)

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  3. dearieme4:23 am

    grey?

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