I saw this article Obama rediscovers audacity and I’m 
Did he use it for his podcasts before becoming President?
then it dawned on me that audacity is also a word. One that’s rarely used anymore. Its pretty obscure today. I automatically read it as auda-city. 
Heck after almost twenty years that software is on anyone’s pc that records audio or music. It begin as a free alternative for Sound Forge. Now I think it has features that Sound Forge doesn’t?
yeah, I’m a computer geek.,
Strange my first thought without any context would be the word not the proper noun usage for a software package. Of course I’ve used it and encountered it. It raises the question if the drift in to relative obscurity is related to a cultural drift away from being audacious.
Podcasts? It’s the title of one of his books. Audacity of Hope.
Probably not obscure, since people would recognize it from one of the President’s books.
Article title is no doubt a callback to said book.
I would have recognized the book title.
Obama is our first tech President. Carries a Blackberry. He probably has used audacity for podcasts in the early 2000’s. Without any context, my natural interpretation is audio software.
Yes, that is probably it.
He’s kinda like some super-genius, dude.
I feel pretty confident in saying “audacity” is a fairly common word, and still in relative use.
I also feel confident that the vast majority of people wouldn’t associate it with the software at first glance, context or no.
Furthermore, I think president Obama would be all like, “WTF?” if he saw this thread.
As would the vast majority of people.
It’s pretty refreshing to have President that knows how to text and send email. He probably had similar pc skills as the rest of us before he got locked up in that stupid ass security bubble. Bill Clinton claims he’s only sent a couple emails in his entire life. Safe bet that George Bush (the first one) never did either. I’ve heard the 2nd Bush uses email now to connect with family. I doubt he used it in office.
It’s pretty disturbing when the leader of the Free world doesn’t have a clue about computers or tech. Especially when at least 80% of our citizen use them in some fashion or other.
FWIW the word audacity has never been uttered from my mouth. I’ve never heard any friends or relatives use it. It sounds pompous and a bit snobbish. “Why you have the audacity to challenge my post on the SDMB?” Nope that sounds like I’m a pompous asshole who thinks he’s better than everybody else.
Yeah right. With all those syllables? Not a chance, professor.
I’m not thinking “pompous” particularly, here.
Maybe it’s just because I’m an elite liberal, but this is the attitude that I associate with certain elements of the conservative movement in America that I find incomprehensible. When I hear someone using a word that I don’t understand, my reaction is to immediately look it up, so that I can be better educated and informed, not to disparage the person who said it. I will never understand the idea that being smart is a bad thing. I voted for Obama because he was smart, because I read *Dreams From My Father *and The Audacity of Hope and found them to be full of thoughtful ideas along with the big words. Leaders should be people who raise you up, not people who dumb themselves down to your level. They should be better than everybody else.
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the yahoo link works fine for me.
I do know the meaning of audacity. A lifetime’s reading makes a large vocabulary a necessity. I’m quite skilled at deducing the meaning from the context of the paragraph. I still double check very obscure words but usually I’ve gotten the gist of the meaning. There was no context in Obama rediscovers audacity. Unless someone remembered a book he wrote over a decade ago.
Synonyms for audacity would be presumption, Gall, arrogance etc. I tend to think of it as a very negative word. Obama intended the other meaning for his book title, boldness, thinking outside the box.
Webster
Full Definition of AUDACITY
1
: the quality or state of being audacious: as
a : intrepid boldness
b : bold or arrogant disregard of normal restraints <had the audacity to defy his boss>
2
: an audacious act —usually used in plural <her worst audacities did not seem to surprise him — Edith Wharton>
I’ve also never encountered anyone who uses Audacity for podcasts. In theory you could, but pretty much anyone official seems to want to use more professional software. It would be like professional photoeditors using GIMP.
Plus, Audacity requires you to download two separate plugins to get full audio file support. So I wouldn’t expect people to think of it as a free and easy solution, either.
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Yeah, I’m a computer geek.
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