{"id":1020,"date":"2009-03-08T15:49:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T20:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2020-01-03T18:58:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T23:58:53","slug":"vocabularious-contrarionous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/vocabularious-contrarionous\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabularious contrarionous"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I finished reading Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London’s Jazz Age<\/a>\"\" 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 Vietnam (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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Tatterdamalion — congeries — badinage — louche — farouche.<\/p>\n

There were others but I misplaced the third index card I used to record them.<\/p>\n

I plan to drop them in future posts though. I hear a vast vocabulary boosts SEO. ha ha ha ha ha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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