The definition of verbose is simple: Mneme. Yup, that's me. My posts are getting quite lengthy. Do I have that much more to say or is it just taking me longer to say it? Am I quagged? In the interest of time and the fact that it's Friday night --my very favorite moment of the week -- I'm going to try to keep this one short and sweet.
Turgid is a synonym for verbose. Honestly, I thought it was a synonym for stercoraceous, one of my dad's favorite words, which means "of or pertaining to dung". His other favorite word was callipygous, which means "characterized by shapely buttocks". I am no longer callipygous, nor am I pithy or terse. I'm verbose. Verbose sounds like someone who is verbally obese. Mneme.
I've always loved words. I was a major bookworm growing up. Someday I hope I have the time to be a bookworm again. I signed up on Facebook for an app (notice how casually I throw out that phrase?) called weRead, which in theory should be great because it allows me to post my favorite books and the ones I want to read, write reviews, and check out what others are reading. But do I want to read or do I want to read about reading?
I always won the spelling bees in elementary school. I won the math bees also. One of my crowning achievements was winning the "Thinker of the Day" award in 3rd grade. First and last time. My smarts deserted me towards the start of high school. The word for that is puberty.
I wrote a seven or eight page paper in college that was returned to me with not a single mark save the word BANAL written in large red letters on the last page. If the professor had simply written SOPHMORIC he would have saved me having to haul out the five pound dictionary.
Today, of course, I can easily look up definitions on dictionary.com, but I prefer the actual dictionary, the feel of the paper, the "whoops, I've gone one page too far" moment, checking out a few neighboring words. I'm tactile. Or perhaps I'm just antediluvian, hoary, positively primeval. I'm about to turn fifty after all.
A word I can never remember the meaning of is sinecure. I get it mixed up with sobriquet. A sinecure is a position that requires little work but provides a salary. I'd like to get me one of those. I already have a sobriquet: Mneme. Do you wonder why I call myself that?
Look it up in the dictionary.
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I did look it up in the dictionary - the paper one, which I, too, prefer - after your first post. However, being over 50, I can't remember who it is! Note to self on a post-it: relook up Mneme :D
ReplyDeleteMneme is the muse of memory!
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