Sunday, November 04, 2007

On divergence of register

Like everyone else, I have been striving valiantly to free the rice, and enjoying the wonderfully rococo words it throws up. (Flagitious! Rodomontade! Hebetude! Wimble?!) But what is particularly delightful is the deadpan way in which it brings up words from such vastly different contexts. I mean, there's caudate, and erythrocyte, and...

Grok.

I got grok.

1 comment:

extemporanea said...

I thought exactly the same - the random juxtaposition is extremely pleasing, and makes it somewhat tricky to guess when you simply don't know.

I didn't get grok. Miffed.