Discussion»Statements»Rosie's Corner» Do you know a lot more words than you ever use or do you use every word at your disposal if appropriate? Do you hold back or let 'em rip?
I've always had a big vocabulary. It came naturally for me as a child. I loved language and words and the more I could learn the meaning of, the happier I was.
I didn't do it for any reason, just the joy of learning them.
It has served me quite well. I highly recommend it. But plain speech is just as effective if the mind behind it has the ability to explain an issue simply and factually.
Look at Ernest Hemingway. He was known and awarded for being a writer that could just use the simplest phrases to contain volumes of meaning.
Remember The Old Man and the Sea?
Even that title is simple. I could have said the septugenarian male's plight against forces of nature, but I doubt if it would have served a better purpose than Hemmingway's title.
The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Bimini, Bahamas, and published in 1952.[1] It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba.[2]
In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.[2]
