Kindle Notes & Highlights
—Don’t be such a prep-school dick. She’s asking because she doesn’t know. You’re trying to make her feel bad for exposing that. In fact, you’re trying to double that bad feeling by giving her the definition of another word she doesn’t know. But nobody knows every word. There are so many more words than one person can carry around. Asking what something means is how words travel. No, seriously. A dictionary is like an orphanage. When she asks what it means, she’s adopting that word. That’s a good thing. All right? I don’t want to ever hear you make any of us feel stupid for asking what a word
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