When you hear the phrase 'endangered species' you probably jump to the conclusion that I'm talking about fluffy panda bears, curious chimpanzees, and gigantic whales. Ha, psych! I'm talking about words. You know the things that we use everyday to communicate with, unless your deaf which then you don't. Yes my friends words are endangered. Every year words get dropped from the dictionary, and what are put in their place? Sad things like unfriend, sexting, retweet and so many words that I would be embarrassed to use. Be shocked, I don't use those words I like saying that 'they stopped being my friend' instead of 'they unfriended me' and 'they sent obscene pictures of themselves to each other' instead of 'they were sexting'. I know that I'm weird and the former is much longer than the latter statement, but wouldn't you feel smarter saying the former?
There is something that you can do to stop the madness! It's called adopting a word. You can click yourself over to this lovely little
link which connects to the savetheword website. Sign up and adopt a few words. Impress your friends and use unknown words. Put them in your writing. Become a superhero and have them be your catch phrases! Yes, put on the cape and say 'resarciate fiends!'
So far I've adopted ecstasiate (to go into ecstasy; to cause to become ecstatic), cloakatively (superficially) and tauroboly (pagan bull sacrifice). Those are amazing words aren't they! Alluding to my previous post the definitions of the words could put together a plot;) Perhaps I may be one of the few that finds this extremely cool and you all think that it is a waste of breath using the words but you have to admit it is fun to dumbfound people!
It's Monday, and I'm packing so this is all that we get today. This week is going to be lighter post seeing that I'm going on vacation to Chicago. Stay cool and have fun!
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