Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Vocabulary Rant

I tend to make friends with laconic people. Remember learning that word in one of those orange high school vocabulary books? Well here in Leeds its a common utterance. Not in Leeds actually. In graduate school in Leeds. 

Why, may I ask, do normal street people suddenly vamp up their vocabulary in front of doctors of philosophy? Why drop words like laconic and corporal? Why not just say, 'man that character sure doesn't say much'. 'Hm... there seems to be quite an obsession in this story with body parts.' 

Beats me.  

1 comment:

Walking by Walden said...

that being said, i must admit that today i used the word prodigious while talking with my advisor. sad day for my idealist self.