So I was reading a book by Jordan Peterson the other day, called 12 Rules For Life, or something like that. I only read about three pages of the intro, because it was so wordy, so convoluted, and lacked the precise and concise message that I look for in non-fiction writing. Interestingly, it was much the same for Peterson's work as well, as I found it too hard to actually get through all the fluff. I like him, and what he stands for, but I find that I can take him in small measures, generally YouTube shorts, rather than a whole book. So I ended up donating his book, with about 1% of it read only. I found that the intro was written in a style where the writer clearly wanted to demonstrate the breadth and depth of his vocabulary, with many words he used foreign to me, and many phrases wildly elaborated well beyond what was necessary to convey the message, in my humble opinion. Anyway, one phrase that this fucker had in there was describing someone as a "loquacious virtuoso", something almost as hard to say as it is to comprehend. So I looked it up for today's words of the day:
Yep, that's exactly how I feel about the guy who penned that intro, even though now I am not sure who he was referring to.
Recently, I came across another word that tickled my fancy, again while reading one of those dreaded self-help books. Seriously, I need to get back to just reading a nice trashy novel here and there, rather than this heavy shit that I struggle to spend more than 10 minutes on, and get left feeling like I haven't tried hard enough. Fuck those fuckers. Anyway, the word I liked was milieu, clearly French in origin, and one I have heard before, but did not know what it meant. The answer is that a milieu is a person's social environment, so there you go!
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