Ambiguity Revisited
I just remembered what my "ambiguity" post was going to be about: the relativity of the word "long" in reference to blog posts. Some people in my family think everything I do is "long," and others don't. Some think "long" is anything with more than one paragraph, others don't think it's too "long" unless it both has 37 paragraphs and is boring (or at least dry). An interesting subject, to be sure, but I don't have the time to write a disquisition on it now. Schoolwork calls.
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Disquisition, eh? Now THAT is a long word- and an interesting one. Did you just make that up?
dis·qui·si·tion /ˌdɪskwəˈzɪʃən/
–noun
a formal discourse or treatise in which a subject is examined and discussed; dissertation.
No, it's a real word. I just came across it in Ben-Hur (I think...or maybe it was in my dictionary.com word-a-day e-mail), and I had to use it somewhere. :)
dictionary.com word-a-day e-mail? Wow! I should check into that...expand my horizons...
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