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nascent
or why an all girl's school vicotrian era education has doomed my hick genes into complete incoherency
Posted: July 14th, 2008 @ 1:34am
I was not one of the "latin" girls in high school. Meaning, I did not take the latin language track. I was a freak who was both a "french" girl and a "physics" girl because I was not required to take Afrikaans after one year and had an odd schedule. This was so odd that I had a free period in the day - unheard of - and took Art in the afternoon, making me a french/physics/art girl. I spent the better portion of my free period either doing maths in the library or reading oswald spengler's "decline of the west" or scanning the OED 13th edition for horribly racist per the era entries.
I learned an excessively large vocabulary, was chided constantly for my lack of correct punctuation and my "looks as if a drunken chicken attacked this paper" handwriting. I still suck at scrabble because I never manage to take advantage of the double word score thingies as much as j, but when I do get a word it stands a chance of being one that gets challenged to a lookup in the dictionary. My grammar and punctuation are now fine if I take the time to not just throw up on the paper or the blog (which I mostly do not), and the drunk chicken is still with me.
As a consequence of my schoolgirl days (complete with hat, tie, blazer and horrid shoes), I use words like nascent, fecund, nimbus, and corollary when I probably could be plainer. What J and D overheard, I imagine, was me begging Mr. Asshat through an analogy to not beat up on a baby. I think I probably said "the VFC is a nascent organization". Meaning it is a newborn and is very tender to warrantless tromping and crappy expectations.
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