lip service, rhetoric, vacuous, tautology, tautonym

Grace Poe is bland and inexperienced. But Rodrigo Duterte is a wannabe hard man who has made unforgivable comments about wishing he had been part of an infamous gang rape in 1989

Filipinos face a choice between a vacuous president, and a downright terrifying one

The danger of personality-driven politics

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中國共產黨只顧自己的死活 對於廣大農民的福利連口惠(無實惠)都懶得給
It is trouble that China's Communist Party is increasingly ill-prepared to deal with. For all Mr Hu's rhetoric about greater internal democracy, the party is too fearful for its own survival to open itself up to a genuine clash of ideas. Although a few brave voices have called for that (see article), there has been no open debate in the run-up to the congress about how to address any of China's pressing rural problems. To add to their burdens, China's peasants are saddled with a ruling party that is too worried about its own survival to spend more than a little lip-service on theirs.

12. J.J. Sullivan, “Japanese Management Philosophies: From the Vacuous to the Brilliant,” California Management Review 34, no. 2 (

lip (SPEECH) Show phonetics
noun [U] INFORMAL
when someone argues in a rude way or in a way the shows a lack of respect:
That's enough of your lip, young lady!


守口如瓶

lip service noun
pay lip service to sth to say that you agree with something but do nothing to support it:
She claims to be in favour of training, but so far she's only paid lip service to the idea.
lip service　から世辞, 口先だけの親切. (只是口頭上的親切關心而已)

rhet·o·ric (rĕt'ər-ĭk)
n.

1. 1. The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively.
   2. A treatise or book discussing this art.
2. Skill in using language effectively and persuasively.
3. 1. A style of speaking or writing, especially the language of a particular subject: fiery political rhetoric.
   2. Language that is elaborate, pretentious, insincere, or intellectually vacuous: His offers of compromise were mere rhetoric.
4. Verbal communication; discourse.

[Middle English rethorik, from Old French rethorique, from Latin rhētoricē, rhētorica, from Greek rhētorikē (tekhnē), rhetorical (art), feminine of rhētorikos, rhetorical, from rhētōr, rhetor. See rhetor.]

vac·u·ous (văk'yū-əs)
adj.

1. Devoid of matter; empty.
2. 1. Lacking intelligence; stupid.
   2. Devoid of substance or meaning; inane: a vacuous comment.
   3. Devoid of expression; vacant: "The narrow, swinelike eyes were open, no more vacuous in death than they had been in life" (Nicholas Proffitt).
3. Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle. See synonyms at empty.

[From Latin vacuus, empty. See vacuum.]

vacuously vac'u·ous·ly adv.
vacuousness vac'u·ous·ness n.





tau·tol·o·gy (tô-tŏl'ə-jē)
n., pl., -gies.

1. 1. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
   2. An instance of such repetition.
2. Logic. An empty or vacuous statement composed of simpler statements in a fashion that makes it logically true whether the simpler statements are factually true or false; for example, the statement Either it will rain tomorrow or it will not rain tomorrow.

[Late Latin tautologia, from Greek tautologiā, from tautologos, redundant : tauto-, tauto- + logos, saying; see -logy.]

tautology恆真(同義反複)

[名]（複-gies）[U][C]

1 （不必要な）類語反復, トートロジー(redundancy)；[C]類語反復の例（widow womanなど）.

2 《論理学》同語反復（の命題）.

-gous, tàu・to・lóg・i・cal

[形]

tàu・to・lóg・ical・ly

[副]

tautological tau'to·log'i·cal (tôt'l-ŏj'ĭ-kəl) or tau'to·log'ic (-ĭk) adj.
tautologically tau'to·log'i·cal·ly adv.



tautonym (TAU-tuh-nim)

noun
A scientific name in which the generic and the specific names are the same, as Chloris chloris (the greenfinch).

Etymology
Greek tautxnymos of the same name, equiv. to tauto- + -nymos named.

Usage
"... the name of the Bank Swallow becomes the tautonym Riparia riparia ...." — Elliott Coues, 100 years ago in the Auk: Notes on generic names of certain Swallows, The Auk, 1 Jul 1998.

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