word of the day
My Internet home page is set up to provide me with one fabulous "new" word each day. Alas, VERY rarely is the word new to me. Perhaps those SAT prep classes I took in high school did me in and for the rest of my life I will not be so surprised when I hear or see words like 'viscous' or 'amalgamation' or even 'galvanize', to name a few. But I thought of a fun game instead that makes the daily word oh-so-much fun!
Here's the game: I try to use the word of the day in the most obscure, useless, incorrect way as much as possible in my daily conversations. For example, "He didn't give me the viscous report yesterday because he wasn't finished." Or, "I am not quite sure how she ameliorated her way out of that situation."
The joy of it is in observing the facial expressions that follow my statements. Too precious for words.
Try it out! And then let me know what you think.
(By the way, this game falls under the category of "things to do at work when you are too stressed beyond words.")
Comments
hi Delara, thanks (-: i hope to meet you one day! i like your blog too (-: i did notice Sina mentioning Feynman on his blog. and my friend Aadis always mentions him too. Feynman is a very fascinating character: two books i can recommend are "You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feynman" and "What do you care what other people think" All the best! daniela
Posted by: Daniela | July 24, 2004 07:15 PM
hi daniela! thanks for stopping by - i hope you visit often. i enjoy reading your blog as well from time to time and tracking conversations on arya's blog.
you are the second person to mention feynman - i am intrigued and will need to check out his stuff soon.
synchronicity is always a good sign. cheers!
Posted by: delara | July 24, 2004 10:21 AM
Delara, found your blog via Arya's. good stuff
(-; this game is hillarious. i try to do a similar thing, but not with such a frequency. there is this line from Richard Feynman, something to the effect "what is it that they saw that made them think it was a snake" reffering to his childhood doubts about miracles in the Old Testament. i love trying to incorporate this sentence into conversations (-; anyway, a little synchronicity, i guess. all the best, daniela
Posted by: Daniela | July 23, 2004 08:26 PM