fun with words
I was watching a movie last week, before my week without tv experiment started, the very bloody and epic Kill Bill Vol. 1. A few days ago I was driving to work, thinking about the sequel, Kill Bill Vol. 2, and the scene where Elle Driver is reading to Budd as he’s lying on the floor, dying after being bitten by a snake. She’s reading from a notebook and says the work gigantic - which she loves but rarely gets to use. So this got me to thinking about words that I like but don’t use very often in day to day writing or conversation.
Leave it to the British to create one of my favorite words to write and to say, because it sounds funny and appropriate - snarky. My sense of humor is a bit dry anyway, so it’s easy to interpret some of my comments as funny or snarky, depending on your viewpoint. Snarky. Kind of sounds like a character that appeared in a couple of Sesame Street episodes and then was written out because nobody liked him. Or because he’d be giving Oscar a run for his money.
Anyway, the other two words I want to mention today is voluminous and harbinger. I love harbinger because it sounds so serious - despite the fact that this week I’ve seen at least two harbingers of spring, which is a good thing. Luminous I like, well, I just like the sound of that word, and then make if voluminous, and what can I say? I just think it sounds cool.
Just FYI - a voluminous amount of people stopping by my work cubicle is a harbinger of me becoming rapidly snarky. 