Adventures in Vocabulary!

[conuly]

Watching TV with the kids, and one character is the Dowager Empress.

Me: She's "dowager" because she's the widow of the previous Emperor.
Eva: Everybody knows that, Connie.
Me: ...no, I'm pretty sure they don't, in fact, know that. I'm not even sure where you learned it, or how, or why.
Eva: Yeah, you could be right. You know, I'm starting to think my friends have a really poor vocabulary. There's a whole lot of words I use that they don't seem to know.
Me: Feel my pain.

But seriously, one of the problems of knowing a lot of words is that you never know what words other people don't know. (Except inchoate. Fuck that word. I'm sure it just appeared out of nowhere one day and suddenly it was everywhere, like some weird practical joke on me.)

Comments

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Oh, do I share your pain. One reason I hang out online so much is because my friends here are mostly of 'average American' education, which translates to what I would consider adequate for an 8th grader. Not to put a nickle in the Rant Machine here, but it seems to me there's no point in most people going to academic school past age 14, when they'd do much better to be learning work skills. Anyone who WANTS more education can get it for themselves for free.

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[conuly]

I will definitely get to that link when I wake up and start saving my daylight.