Vocabulary Lesson of the Day
Found as a comment on one of my favorite blogs "Mary must have broad shoulders (if only to support such a surely colossal encephalon as hers)." There is something charming, if also pretentious, about using the word for the-brain-of-a-vertebrate, rather than simply saying "brain". Who slips that into a casual sentence? Cambridge profs, that's who.
Try using it in a sentence in your daily life.
"Do you have any advil? My encephalon hurts."
"My dog isn't stupid, her encephalon is just very small."
Next week we look at Discipline and Punish and the use of the word "epistemologico-juridical". Stay tuned!