chuckle Cindy Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned list available at sites below Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List Books Being Scanned List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List --- On Sun, 7/5/09, Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote: From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: [bksvol-discuss]writers who use big words To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Sunday, July 5, 2009, 6:03 PM Well, to be honest, I am not entirely sure of the meanings of all the words in that list either and so I don't use them either. I guess I could look them up right now, but I don't feel like it. It occurs to me, though, if I wanted to be pretentious I could look them up and pretend that I knew them all along, couldn't I? "If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine." Che Guevara The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com/txtindex.shtml Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html _ table with 2 columns and 6 rows Subj: [bksvol-discuss] Re: [bksvol-discuss]writers who use big words Date: 7/5/2009 8:29:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx Reply-to: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent from the Internet (Details) table end Hi, Roger, I admit I've heard the word Recondite, but can't recall using it. Looks I'm looking this one up (smile). Other words I have heard but don't use because unsure if I know what I'm talking about: casuistry, rubric, threnody, dithyramb,weltanschauung (sic), zeitgeist, etc. Regards, Kim aka Ellinder. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 8:39 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: [bksvol-discuss]writers who use big words What gets to me is what some people consider a big word. Once, in an effort to be facetious, I made reference to my id and then I was accused of using a big word to impress. Id is a big word? Then, at least twice, in casual conversation I used the word recondite. Both times the person to whom I was talking reached without comment for a dictionary to look up the word. One of them then expressed surprise that I had used it in a way that I obviously knew what it meant. "If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine." Che Guevara The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com/txtindex.shtml Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html _ table with 2 columns and 6 rows Subj: [bksvol-discuss] Re: [bksvol-discuss]writers who use big words Date: 7/5/2009 10:03:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: akp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reply-to: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent from the Internet (Details) table end Hi all, I love being able to look up the occasional word. Taylor Caldwell is one of those writers who uses big words naturally, as if she figures her readers will know what on earth she's talking about! I had to resort to the dictionary for "efulgent" Anybody heard of efulgent? I also looked up "Lambent", any takers on that one? I better retake the SAT's I could probably get a better score now after fourty years. <smiling> Ann P. -- AAnn K. Parsons Portal Tutoring Email: akp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web Site: http://www.portaltutoring.info blog: http://www.samobile.net/users/akp Skype: Putertutor "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. ************** An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222887319x1201497660/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62&bcd=JulyExcfooterNO62) ************** An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222887319x1201497660/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62&bcd=JulyExcfooterNO62)