More on ridiculous words of the day
I have complained elsewhere that language is a tool not an artifact.
But now that I have this blog, I have another place to go on about it.
This week these two words came up as "words of the day" via dictionary.com:
exegete: one who explains or interprets difficult parts of written works.
recondite: difficult to understand.
The providers of such "words of the day" could do us a great service by offering more common words and their meanings. So many people misuse words that it infuriates me. (Small confession: I may have only developed this sensitivity after spending almost two years writing a plain language legal dictionary).
Nonetheless, these two words, in particular, annoy me. If it weren't for the recondite writing of some there would be no work for the exegetes like me.
But now that I have this blog, I have another place to go on about it.
This week these two words came up as "words of the day" via dictionary.com:
exegete: one who explains or interprets difficult parts of written works.
recondite: difficult to understand.
The providers of such "words of the day" could do us a great service by offering more common words and their meanings. So many people misuse words that it infuriates me. (Small confession: I may have only developed this sensitivity after spending almost two years writing a plain language legal dictionary).
Nonetheless, these two words, in particular, annoy me. If it weren't for the recondite writing of some there would be no work for the exegetes like me.
posted by Stephens at
7:37 PM
2 Comments:
words are a tool to communicate with everyone, however, if i choose to express myself in sesquipidelian diction and verbose as opposed to nexilious language, whom are you to toil upon the litigation of my personal conviviliaty.
I be the plain language police!
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