Grzzle

Salient

man i hate those warcraft players where ur just walking along or fighting a tiger or something then they just ride up to u, get off their level 70 horse or whatever and, clad head to toe in all epic shit, smite u down with one mind blast spell before /laugh-ing over ur corpse and riding again off, leaving u thinking “man what a scrotal knobhead”

anyway these last few weeks i’ve mainly been sitting around at home playing hardwood hearts and the above and generally being very bored. to that end i ordered, from a gym equipment website, one of those bars u put across a doorway in ur house - chin up bars. it should prove to slightly reduce the boredom levels.

i was having a go at my sister (16) the other day coz she doesn’t use enough words. if it isn’t mono- or bi-syllabic then it’s either “pokemon” or “yu-gi-oh”. i told her we are fortunate in having learned the english language at birth and that it has the most words of any language. she said she didn’t need to use any long words coz u can say the same thing using shorter words… which is true of course since longer words have definitions comprising of shorter words. but i said the point of having a longer word meaning the same thing is that ur sentence can become more poetic or expressive whilst sounding less clumsy. but she argued that her friends wouldn’t understand what they meant so there was no point anyway. i left it there and went on to ask her if she knew what words such as “arbitrary”and “circumstantial” meant. she said no and went up to her bedroom. now i’m no oscar wilde; looking at my mum’s completed daily mail crossword often has me frowning, but if the words are there u should use them.

incidentally, arbitrary is my favourite word ever.