I have a
fabulous vocabulary.
Okay, so
maybe this is cheating since I am a writer. Having an extensive vocabulary
comes with the territory. But the honest to god truth is that I love words. Not
just writing them, but studying them, making new ones, finding old ones. Even words in other languages.
When I was a
kid, my parents always encouraged me to ask what something meant if it confused
me. They never dumbed down the answer.
If I wanted to know what a word meant, my mother would make me look it up and
help me understand it. If there was something on TV I didn’t understand, they
explained it to me. While some people may think that this kind of
open-ended-question style of parenting introduces kids too early to concepts
that they don’t understand, it certainly helped me grow into a better person.
Here I am with three degrees and speaking
several languages. How’s that for good parenting.
Long story
short, words are beautiful and in my mind the more words you know the more
beautiful your words become.
Challenge to
my Readers:
Learn some
new words today. There’s a dictionary on your phone/ipod/kindle/coffee table.
Flip it open and find a word you’ve never heard before.
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