Bush said he made our military more "facile"

[Ezlivin]

Okay, it either means:

1. Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.

-or-

2. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered.


Gee, I hope he didn't mean Number 2, but what the hell would Number 1 mean?

:)

[texas is the reason]

1. exactly- i always took that to mean "fickle" or something like that...

just like def. 2 or 3 here from yahoo dictionary..

1.Done or achieved with little effort or difficulty; easy. See Synonyms at easy.

2.Working, acting, or speaking with effortless ease and fluency.
Arrived at without due care, effort, or examination; superficial: proposed a facile solution to a complex problem.

3.Readily manifested, together with an aura of insincerity and lack of depth: a facile slogan devised by politicians.

ol' chimpy sure has been reading his "million-dollar vocab" books.. too bad he skipped his "hooked on phonics"!!!! what a "vociferous" jackass.

[skygazer]

2. Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed that

After all, if our military is fascile, they can fight more vociferously!

It's hard work, using all these big words. None of them are in "My Pet Goat."

[neebob]

3. I thought he said it has to be facile

Actually, I think he said we have to be facile. "We have to be {something}, and {something else}, and facile."

From m-w.com:

Main Entry: fac·ile
Pronunciation: 'fa-s&l
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle French, from Latin facilis, from facere to do -- more at DO
1 a (1) : easily accomplished or attained <a facile victory> (2) : SPECIOUS, SUPERFICIAL <I am not concerned ... with offering any facile solution for so complex a problem -- T. S. Eliot> b : used or comprehended with ease c : readily manifested and often lacking sincerity or depth <facile tears>
2 archaic : mild or pleasing in manner or disposition
3 a : READY, FLUENT <facile prose> b : POISED, ASSURED
synonym see EASY
- fac·ile·ly /-s&(l)-lE/ adverb
- fac·ile·ness /-s&l-n&s/ noun

I think he meant specious and superficial, like himself.

On edit, here's the quote: "It also means that we can target things easier and move more quickly, which means we need to be lighter and quicker and more facile and highly trained."

[Swede]

4. His handlers must leave the reader's digest open to word power

by Bush's crapper.

[jdj]

8. yeah, but they forgot to tell him you're sposed to know what they

mean, not just use them

[tinanator]

5. hey its a new word for him

cut him some slack

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

6. From Webster

Main Entry: fac·ile
Pronunciation: 'fa-s&l
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle French, from Latin facilis, from facere to do -- more at DO
1 a (1) : easily accomplished or attained <a facile victory> (2) : SPECIOUS, SUPERFICIAL <I am not concerned ... with offering any facile solution for so complex a problem -- T. S. Eliot> b : used or comprehended with ease c : readily manifested and often lacking sincerity or depth <facile tears>
2 archaic : mild or pleasing in manner or disposition
3 a : READY, FLUENT <facile prose> b : POISED, ASSURED
synonym see EASY
- fac·ile·ly /-s&(l)-lE/ adverb
- fac·ile·ness /-s&l-n&s/ noun

[jayctravis]

7. Bush must have a word-of-the-day calendar

on his desk.

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

9. Last week it was "vociferously"