kirsten mortensen » D.J. Taylor http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php smart & funny romantic comedies! Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:35:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Vocabularious contrarionous http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/vocabularious-contrarionous.htm http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/vocabularious-contrarionous.htm#comments Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:49:19 +0000 Kirsten http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/?p=1020 Continue reading →]]> So I finished reading Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London’s Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor (part of an Evelyn Waugh thing I’ve taken on — g*d I’m such a lit nerd! lol). Some similarities between that generation & the trailing edge boomers — those of us who were too young to serve in Viet Nam (like the English kids who were too young to serve in WWI) but hit our late teens/early 20s in the direct shadow of those who did.

Found I needed a dictionary beside me while I was reading, too — a kick in & of itself — not often I encounter a writer whose vocabulary is such a mismatch to mine.

Tatterdamalion — congeries — badinage — louche — farouche.

There were others but I misplaced the third index card I used to record them.

I plan to drop them in future posts though. I hear a vast vocabulary boosts SEO. ha ha ha ha ha

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