Remember flipping through SAT flashcards? I can still see harbinger written in scary red letters ("a sign of bad things to come"). I tried "word of the day" for a while ... it didn't stick.
Working in publishing, it's easy to fall into the trap of dialectic snobbery, but this list of 2010's most frequently looked-up words on NYTimes.com schooled me good. Minus maybe eight or so, every one of these entries is a new addition to my vocabulary.
I will be spending my weekend seeking out ways to use profligacy in a sentence. I suggest you do the same.
It's Me
- Allegra
- "Life's dirty. Life's unclean. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right? Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey pies. That's us. We're fabulous."
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