[blueerica]

Bring it to the camping trip. I'd love to spend the weekend reading something that's not a textbook!

Like Morrigoon, I tend to use big words, but I try to keep in mind its origin, because I'm a big nerd. So it bothers me that other people would use them incorrectly. Maybe I'm just irritated at that, because I have a subconscious fear that it cheapens my usage... to know that others may wield language like a toddler that picks up a heavy sword. Just 'cuz you can hold it doesn't mean you know what you're doing with it.

Yarrgh!

My elitist self is really shining tonight.

p.s. I haven't used paucity before (not one of the words that comes up, enough, for me. I should whip it out in econ and freak out the students and, perhaps, the professor.) (On second though, no.... bad idea.) And that stinks that you got a bad reaction for using a word properly.