You may be thinking, what is the point? You'll never be able to use all those words. Some of them have such obscure meanings that there will probably never be a situation where you get to use them. Thats the same kind of negativity that has people thinking that the war in Iraq isn't going well, and maybe our president wasn't appointed by god, and frankly, its not healthy. Besides, I find that I'm usually able to use the word of the day the very day it comes into my inbox. For example, today's word is ananda. Yes, its spelled like Ananda Lewis from MTV, but it means "Pure bliss," which is coincidentally what I feel when her lovely countenance appears on my television. I didn't know this word before today, did you, smartass? Anyways, I was able to use this today. Someone rode by me on a bike, and there was still some standing water that splashed me, so I said, "Go ananda yourself!" It doesn't really fit with the actual meaning, but he didn't really know that, and neither did anyone else. Last week someone called me lazy, so I called her a potemkin village. Technically it means "An impressive showy facade designed to mask undesirable facts," but she thought I was calling her fat by equating her with a village. Either interpretation suited my purpose, I guess, which was to make myself feel better at her expense.
I guess what I'm saying is that I don't really need a word a day. All that is really necessary is a random combination of letters that sounds like a word a day. I will then take that "word" and use it as an insult in any manner I see fit. But, I suppose, as long as this guy is sending me real words, I might as well use those.
Posted by mill1991 at September 22, 2004 09:35 PM