Word Nerd

Hi, Sarah here,

It's been a while. I apologize. I'll make up for it somehow. Not sure how. But I will!

As most of you, I am an Secondary English Ed major and with this particular major comes some heavy reading. Like - whole novels assigned for that night's readings. And I can gripe and complain about it, but with all that reading comes some really epic words that render me speechless. Not only do I read the words, but since all my teachers are like walking libraries, their vocabulary is stupendous. And since I'm a self-proclaimed word nerd, I get super excited and kinda geek out. This is generally what happens.

Teacher: blah blah blah boring words boring words using gesticulations instead of words blah blah blah and the Juxtaposition and defamiliarizing of these words is blah blah blah

Me: *A slight flapping of my hands in excitement.*
"OH MY WORD what a fantastic word. I also have no idea what is means! But it just sounds so cool!"

*Pull up my dictionary app and looks!*

*Tries pronouncing it right. Botches it the first couple times. Uses it in a sentence.*

*Looks at what part of speech the word is. Memorizes the definition, sample sentence, pronunciation and part of speech.*

*Incorporates it into every day language even though it's highly obnoxious, superfluous word and no one else will know what I'm talking about.*

But it doesn't matter because I do and it's a cool word and I like learning and using cool words.

Do you have any cool words? Are you a word nerd? Have other geek out moments? Please share! Tell me I'm not alone on this!

Sincerely,
Word Nerd