wordy
Okay. Because I’m tired of having The Post Full of Anger remain up here (thank you, mimi, for being a shining example of The Dramatic Use of Capital Letters. I remain your humble apprentice), but because I don’t have much new or interesting to say, I will now resort to a classic blogging technique for making the most out of a little:
Listing.
And no, I don’t refer to “tilting to one side.”
But aha! That very likely misunderstanding segues perfectly into my list, which is a properly geeky and annoying one for an editor and recovering English major such as myself.
9 Words I Really Like:
(I know. You’d think that as a self-confessed editor/English major/etc. I’d be capable of coming up with a catchier title, wouldn’t you? More of a mot juste? But I guess you’d be wrong. That’s how it looks, anyhow.)
- palimpsest
- feckless
- lothario
- flaneur
- incunabulum
- pragmatic
- discrete
- preclude
- artless
There you go. My gift to you for today. Seven little gifts, really. Now go! Go forth and drop 10-cent words as if each were worth only a nickle!
Actually, #6 probably is only worth about a nickle. But I like it anyhow.
quotes to go:
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”—Rudyard Kipling
“What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.”
—Seneca
“The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”