It is always amusing in French class to watch the “I know too much to look up these words” people get tripped up by what we call *”false cognates” en anglais. I’m hoping for such tonight as one of our vocab words is décevant. Deceiving? No. Disappointing.

I, as you must have known, am an anal-looker-upper. Even when I know that I already know the word in question. I’m always checking to make sure there isn’t also an idiomatic definition I don’t know about. I waste a lot of time that way. But time…well, that’s in surfeit over here.

While I most definitely am not a Sox fan (hello. CUBS.), I do find some of their new El advertisements really hilarious. Like this one:

We haven’t won a championship in, like…months.

Hilarious, no? On the other hand, I am not a fan of the new Illinois donor ads that say “I am going to save a life, are you?” Um hello but you are not necessarily saving a life by signing up to be an organ donor. Sure, IF you get in some crazy accident that kills you BUT leaves all your organs intact, your organs MIGHT save someone’s life. But there’s a lot of other possibilities for your death that do not leave you either a good donor or saving someone’s life.

I tryped a new word: “neard” = “never heard”.

Sclerotic.
1) of, relating to, or affected with sclerosis.
2) grown rigid or unresponsive with age (~institutions).

Thanks, Salon, j’aime beaucoup apprendre des nouveaux mots.

A often-hilarious yet actually quite OED-like explanation of the term “baby-daddy” (and “baby-momma” as well, bien sur).