New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels
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Read to your kids. Use big words around them.
Yeah, say things like “Oh how droll, your lexicon and command of the English language is quite lamentable. Perchance your parents taught you little and never thought to embiggen your vernacular?”
Also lmao iPhones don’t recognize that embiggen is an actual dictionary word 😂
That's because it's from the simpsons.
Actually, no! The Simpsons used the word and was the reason it was actually put into the dictionary, but originally the word was used in a book from some dude in 1884 by the name of C.A. Ward.
Ok, but if the Simpsons didn't get the word from that book and came up with the concept independently, and then popularized it, it's still valid to say that it came from the Simpsons.
Either way, it's a perfectly cromulent word.
Of course
I use giga huge word sounds hella
Your unenlightened vernacular is apparent scoundrel. Face the folly of your simplistic lexicon.
My girlfriend accused me of being a pedophile. I said, "Hey, that's a pretty big word for a 10-yr old."
Bob Saget was funny
This was funny when Jimmy Carr told it.
