I am a lover of words, or a logophile if you will. I have quite a large vocabulary and actually use it on a fairly regular basis, to the point where I have friends that on a regular basis that look at me quizzically and ask the definition of whatever word I just used. I don’t do it to try and make others feel dumb or anything like that, I just feel like some words tend to sound more appropriate than others in certain contexts, and sometimes they are rather large and are used rather infrequently by most people. I also use appropriate grammar constantly and one of my biggest pet peeves is people that do not. And, yes, I have had the tendency to correct people’s grammar, though I’ve curbed that more recently since I think it can sometimes make me seem like an asshole.
But there is one downfall in my speech. The word “like”. Having grown up in the 90s, that is one of the things that unfortunately stuck with me. It gets frustrating when I really start thinking about it because I use it way too much. Such as, “he was like…” “they were all like…” etc. I can avoid it when writing and typing, but when I’m talking it seems to sneak itself into at least every other sentence I say. My goal is to try and quit using the word as much as possible here in the near future. I feel ask if it makes me sound kind of dumb, which I don’t care for.
