[bushisdamanin04]

I detest writers who use a thesaurus like they are 15 years old and trying to impress the English teacher they have such a crush on. I read Rick Atkinson's An Army at Dawn and used at least 100 words that 99% of his readers, myself included, had never heard of and which are never used in any regular conversation. It got incredibly irritating having to resort to the dictionary so often. And it was a real shame because his research appeared to be outstanding.

[LasVegasMac]

Then you have people like Rush, "women 'farding' in the car on the way to work."

I think he is still laughing over that one!

I've caught more than one person, "I'm not familiar with that word, what does it mean?"

I quit doing it at company staff meetings - quick way to make an enemy for life.

LVM

[LasVegasMac]

Then you have people like Rush, "women 'farding' in the car on the way to work."

I think he is still laughing over that one!

I've caught more than one person, "I'm not familiar with that word, what does it mean?"

I quit doing it at company staff meetings - quick way to make an enemy for life.

LVM

[ThanhPhero]

Perhaps you could work on your vocabulary a bit.

[finnman69]

I love writers who use million dollar words in clever and meaningful ways.

Maureen Dowd is not one of those writers.