2010-06-26 / Advice & Entertainment

A Word Please

by June Casagrande
I recently stumbled across an old YouTube video in which the late writer David Foster Wallace was asked about what he calls “puff words” -- terms like “prior to” and “subsequent to.”


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My grandfather and I loved to

Submitted by Shanon Rocha (not verified) on Sun, 2010-06-27 20:15.
My grandfather and I loved to work the Reader Digest word game. I suppose that would be passe' now because it might encourage the use of "puff" words in common language. I don't know why we even bother with high school English and vocabulary if society is put off by the use of words found on the GRE. The next time someone becomes truculent with me for being overly pedantic and verbose I will remember to use remedial vocabulary lest I offend:) Shanon Rocha

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