HeadSpill

I casually dropped the word ‘multitudinous’ into conversation last night. I’m quite pleased.

Big words, and the use thereof. It’s somthing I bang on about every now and then, there’s just not enough people making full use of the English language anymore. I remember once waiting outside a metro station in newcastle when someone came up and asked If I knew where the biscuit factory was, (an art gallery build on the site of an old bakery,) and what the nearest metro station stop to it would be. I named two stations saying the venue in question was ‘equidistant’ to them. The initial look I got was one of puzzlement, like I’d said something that was nonsense or delibrately confusing, but then a smile cracked right across her face and she repeated the word back to me, ‘equidistant!’, taking pleasure from the use of the word.

I was pleased she smiled, because in the few short moments beforehand, when she was looking at me curiously, like i’d just been beamed down from another planet, my brain begangearing up for a defensive response for an “eh?” or “you what?”, to which I like to think my retort would have been somthing like ‘if you don’t know what it means then I’ll give you themetro fare, you need all the education you can get’, but probably wouldn’t.

The full English langange, like the breakfast, is a rich and cultured affair, if you can use a big

word, do it.

Other stuff.
My sweet girlfriend took me to Colwyn Castle in Wales. Lovely. However as I was walking around I couldn’t trying to compare it to the castle in the game ‘Oblivion’ which I’ve been playing recently. oh dear.