I think I’m watching too much TV.
The odd thing about that is that I cancelled my satellite subscription last July. It’s that cursed Netflix! It delivers TV shows to my house and I watch them without commercial interruption.
I’ve been watching (well, mostly re-watching) Star Trek: The Next Generation. One night after finishing an episode wherein the balding Captain and the pasty Android have enjoyed a Holmesian adventure in the holo-deck, I lay back in bed and suddenly I start thinking: “You know, TNG really has some high caliber writing. Not the stories, really, but the vocabulary.”
Of all the things I can be thinking about that’s what pops into my head, how well Picard and Data speak. I start thinking about how I could write some review about TNG and complain about how slow some of the shows are, but, wowzee, could those 24th century people speak! Stupid. Just stupid.
Obviously I’ve just become another dumb American obsessed with entertainment.
Well, anyway, speaking of words and vocabulary, here’s some words I’d like to research:
- retract
- retaliate
- resent
- schalk
- lewd
- tinsel
- crafty
- artful
- kind
- demure
- minion
- ringleader
- menial
- villain
- miser
- miserable
- passion
- talent
If you know anything about the origins of these words or have a good link to a reputable etymology site, please leave a comment.
