Comments | medusasowl: <br />It's not really work

medusasowl

It's not really work

Jan 04, 2008 15:28

Anybody on my flist play http://freerice.com/? Karen and I are up to 43 vocab lvl ^_ ( Read more... )

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eonen January 5 2008, 00:07:36 UTC

I've played it; I got about as high as you did. Sometimes I'm amazed at the vocabulary that I take for granted; I once had somebody accuse me of being snooty and eggheaded for using "big words" like 'pedantic' and 'exert', if you can believe it.

medusasowl January 6 2008, 20:50:10 UTC

Oy vey, I sympathize, I once had an english teacher in high school stop me in the middle of a presentation excitedly to explain to my classmates what the word "loathing" means. He was way too thrilled about my using "big words".

eonen January 6 2008, 20:56:50 UTC

"Loathing"??? Merciful Zeus! How is that a big word? "Zygomorphic" is a big word; "loathing" is just a damn good play in Scrabble™!

It's just bizarre! Even more bizarre is the tendency to look down upon people who actually know more than you do, like somehow that's a Bad Thing™.

This, among other things, is why I constantly deny being human; if this is human nature, then I'm not one of 'em! GRAAGH! >:(

medusasowl January 6 2008, 21:07:25 UTC

Yeah, it was sad. You don't even want to know how bad the geography class was. I swear to god, in high school - not even freshman year- a girl next to me said "That's England? But it's so *small*!"

America makes me sad. And anti-intellectualism baffles the mind. :P

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medusasowl January 6 2008, 20:51:17 UTC

Haha, cute! They're not about to let some lyrebird show them up, eh? ;) I was impressed with the camera sounds... but the logging blew my mind.

mermaidsinlove January 5 2008, 01:21:35 UTC

I play Freerice! I got the name of my novel from there. Peripeteia.

Grats on the level 70!

mermaidsinlove January 5 2008, 01:27:29 UTC

Holy crap, that bird rules!

medusasowl January 6 2008, 20:53:20 UTC

Thank you! And that's an awesome idea, I love using word names for characters I need to start writing down some of these very cool words. ;) That's a beautiful one.

elven_wolf January 5 2008, 04:11:50 UTC

Yay Kahani!

medusasowl January 6 2008, 20:53:54 UTC

Thanks! I am having WAY too much fun with the flying mount. :D

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Re: Third Comment medusasowl January 6 2008, 20:55:53 UTC

Oh sure, as if we need MORE addicting games! ;D We'll definitely check those out though! Except perhaps for the cockroach dream... Ovo