November 14, 2005

50 cent words

Given that our library collection is for general readers, I consider it a bad sign when I have to look up words in the *review* of a book in order to understand what I'm reading about. Not that this is terribly uncommon when I'm browsing through philosophy reviews in Choice, but still....

Today's wordlist includes:
epistemology, ontology, axiomatics, resistentialism (which the reviewer used somewhat improperly), and indefatigable (for which I've long known the meaning, but never how to pronounce).

Posted by gris at November 14, 2005 01:41 PM
Comments

And here I thought you were going to be doing a review of Get Rich or Die Tryin'...

Posted by: Matt at November 14, 2005 01:49 PM

::THIBBITS Mattchew::

Posted by: Gris at November 14, 2005 01:51 PM