Word choice
May. 30th, 2009 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Apparently at some point I started assuming I was done learning the English language. I think I'm pretty well educated and have a pretty good grasp of the language as it is used these days. Now at least half the time I hear a word I don't know I question the judgement of the user of that word. Are they trying to sound uppity by using an obscure word? Why can't they use something more plain so that they'd be more widely understood? Does that obscure word really have anything that the common ones don't?
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Date: 2009-05-31 01:23 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-05-31 03:56 pm (UTC)I also notice that my reading vocabulary is way larger the vocabulary of words I expect to hear in conversation. I don't think that's unusual.
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