Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Careful Wording

Our vocabularies are forced to breach the norm when we travel. We insist on describing every market we enter as bustling or perhaps thronged, we call a meal we don't really understand (or like) a delicacy or a bonne bouche and we come up with words like rustic and agrarian to avoid having to mention that we're in the middle of nowhere. Truly, it seems we are all wordsmiths. Sadly, having stretched our creative streaks further than we can usually manage, we tend to start repeating ourselves outrageously. And we get terribly snootish when this is pointed out to us.

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