You gotta love it when someone chooses to use this five-syllable word when they could just say "boring." I suppose things that are noncontroversial are not always boring, but usually that is the case. We are human. Our nature is to revel in observing a good controversy. We hate to be embroiled in one with consequences, but watching one from a safe place--is there anything more satisfying to our curiosity? Could this be the reason why we love gossip?
And could this word of the day be the antidote to gossip: To consider scandals and failure in other people's lives as noncontroversial because they were not our decisions to make, and not our consequences to reap? I can just imagine all the noncontroversy that wouldn't travel from person to person within our communities if our love for one another was so strong that we could override the gossip gene.
How boring, but how very safe, that community would be.
Blogger's note: Books, and especially dictionaries, are full of good words. Feel free to leave a comment sharing one of your favorites, and keep watching for more of mine.
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i've always liked combo words like 'heretofore', 'insofar', 'aforementioned', and the like.
it feels like i spelled 'heretofore' wrong but i'm on a french computer (lame, i know) and it thinks everything i spell is wrong.
"Pokemon": def. A rastafarian proctologist
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