Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
bald date
English answer:
date by itself
English term
bald date
- Leaving Richard off?
- I've been thinking about why it happened. I knew I had to check with Alice and the others how to put Richard on the tree - just the bald date or something else - and somehow it led to me leaving him off altogether.
[Richard died three years earlier in an accident]
| 4 +6 | date by itself |
Michael Powers (PhD)
|
| 4 +2 | mere date |
Kim Metzger
|
| 3 +1 | the plain, unadorned date (the frank and blunt date) |
chica nueva
|
Dec 30, 2008 03:01: Michael Powers (PhD) changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
Dec 30, 2008 03:02: Michael Powers (PhD) changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/52429">Michael Powers (PhD)'s</a> old entry - "bald date"" to ""date by itself""
Responses
United States
US Court Cert. 1980 Ph.D. 1981
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, Portuguese to English, English to Spanish, and 2 more.
date by itself
Mike :)
--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2 mins (2003-11-18 03:41:58 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------
However, although the intent was to only put the date, nothing was recorded on the tree to remember that moment - all possible memories were never recorded.
Mexico
Committed to Quality and Service
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
Works in: German to English
mere date
| agree |
Jörgen Slet
6 hrs
|
| agree |
Christopher Crockett
: Surely. Or, "merely the date". Though in the context of the passage given, you're well-haired, Kim.
10 hrs
|
http://youtube/iraVWQu3Zf8
Native in: English (Variants: New Zealand, British)
Works in: Chinese to English
the plain, unadorned date (the frank and blunt date)
Above are the two figurative meanings of bald which might go with its use in literature.
To state something 'baldly' is to give it 'frankly and bluntly'.
Something went wrong...