Do You Care About Words?

Hi Eureka! Ha! Ha! You appear like me or should I say that we are on the same board. I also keep looking for new words/phrases which appear double dutch to me. It is always fruitful to learn new words, as kids keep asking about meaning of so many words with the hope that their father i.e. me, is well versed in English vocabulary. I am a learner and I find it interesting to learn new words/phrases.

To me English is a second language. I learnt it simply for the love of it. Initially, I was obsessed with the idea of adding new words to my vocabulary. I am a regular subscriber to reader's digest. In this magazine, there is a chapter on 'Word Power'. It has a fine collection of new words. I like to add new words to my knowledge for one reason that whenever I come across it I should be familiar with it. However, I avoid using such word in every day parlance because then I am likely to be misunderstood. Besides, I might not be able to convey what I want to say properly. The purpose of any language is to make one as expressive as necessary. To have a large vocabulary the mind must have a dual core processor, a ram of a bigger capacity and a bigger hard disk. Further, it would occupy a bigger space of mind's hard disk. I like to use shorter sentence, words that everyone can understand. Not everyone likes to refer to a dictionary each time one come across a new word. They would rather flip the page and read something else. You are right; I do think it is a nerdy thing to do.

i am actually a person that reads the dictionary. i bet there are not that many of us around that do that!

I am learning new words quite often. In fact Mylot had helped me to learn many new words.I am a non English speaking person, so my vocabulary may not be that good, so I keep learning to get me equipped as a blogger.

Yes, I do care about them. I like to rech my vocabulary. I think it is important to practice them within sentences but we should look for how to learn them and spell them correctly.