Quote

This quote appeared on my Google homepage today...

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. - Stephen King

I love it.

Since joining the higher education world over a year ago, I find myself in meetings where people try and make themselves sound so smart by using a million big words and it just worsens their case.

Reminds me of that Friends episode where Joey wants to sound smart when writing a letter of recommendation to an adoption agency considering Monica and Chandler as adoptive parents. Joey looks every word he plans to use up in a thesaurus and the letter ends up completely jumbled. The agency receives the letter and accepts Monica and Chandler because they think a child wrote the letter! Too funny.