I learned a new word today!
By The Horse
@TheHorse (222193)
Walnut Creek, California
November 8, 2022 10:22am CST
Actually, I learn a new word any day I want to. But I'll probably forget them a soon as I learn them. Maybe I'll have "recognition memory" for some of them.
Somehow, I got hooked up with an email called "Word Genius." They send me a fancy word every day, define it, and use it in a sentence. There are ads for some "objective" news source around the definitions.
I consider myself a "blue collar" writer. I try to eschew obfuscation in my writing by using clear, every day language.
What was today's word? "Escritoire." I was able to guess the meaning of this one from my distant memory of having spoken some French at one time. I said "a place for writing."
It turns out an "escritoire" is a small desk for writing, usually with several compartments or drawers for pens and such like. So here I sit at my rather large "escritoire," doing the modern equivalent of writing.
Ha! I used the word! Now back to my blue collar tendencies.
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@DaddyEvil (139792)
• United States
8 Nov 22
Whether you realize it or not, you have a tendency to throw out "50 cent words" when you're writing "normally". Sometime I do the same thing. *shrug* Most people still understand us from the context anyway.
I was afraid some of your little friends at the pre-school were teaching you new words you shouldn't be learning.
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@kaylachan (74014)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
8 Nov 22
Sure is an interesting word.
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@kaylachan (74014)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
8 Nov 22
@TheHorse Well, English is a mash up of a lot of words. We're constantly borrowing words from other countries.
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@TheHorse (222193)
• Walnut Creek, California
8 Nov 22
@kaylachan We are indeed! Hey, where did "indeed" come from?
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@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
8 Nov 22
Interesting...now I learned a new word too.
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@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
8 Nov 22
@TheHorse I do too. I do speak a bit of french. I can read it better then I speak it.
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@TheHorse (222193)
• Walnut Creek, California
8 Nov 22
@Happy2BeMe I can't do either very well. But I can recognize words with French derivations, like this one.
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@BarBaraPrz (48255)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
8 Nov 22
Also called a secretary...
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@BarBaraPrz (48255)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
9 Nov 22
@TheHorse I actually have one tucked into a corner of my dining room.
@wolfgirl569 (110426)
• Marion, Ohio
9 Nov 22
I am curious if you will remember it tomorrow.
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@RasmaSandra (81959)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
8 Nov 22
I have an escritoire for my desktop PC. It has a place for my keyboard and two nooks for notebooks and notes and a top shelf where I can put my small speakers. Neither my writing grammar nor Grammarly knew what the world was.
@JudyEv (344642)
• Rockingham, Australia
9 Nov 22
I actually knew this word. There has been several featured on Antiques Roadshow from time to time. Fiacre likes big words too.
@spiderdust (14759)
• San Jose, California
8 Nov 22
I didn't know that word either! I consider myself as someone with a pretty extensive vocabulary too.