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Thank you We speak word joyce allah shmoop there are

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more than a million words in the english language and

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yet with so many different words to choose from we

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often fall back on the same ones over and over

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again and it makes sense Some words were just so

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simple understandable and university there the workhorses of our vocabulary

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You know how that goes but a workhorse doesn't always

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do the trick Sometimes our conversations and are writing requires

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to be more selective you know creative but wise word

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choice So important the language is a tool We use

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words to express the ideas thoughts and emotions in our

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heads to the world via the spoken word or the

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written word and because we want others to fully understand

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what we have to say and not misinterpret anything We

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have to care about word choice And choose the appropriate

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words for each situation For example max wakes up one

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morning and tells his mom i feel bad Well sure

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we get the gist of what max is saying but

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he could be more specific if his stomach is churning

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and he's fairly certain He's going to spend the next

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twenty four hours in the bathroom Max should opt for

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i feel ill or i feel sick over I feel

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bad if he's down in the mouth about spending yet

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another boring day in high school max could say i

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feel depressed The football team is going to give him

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a wedgie again Max could say i feel anxious There

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are so many words that more accurately convey what max

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feeling that plain old bad also bad isn't likely to

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grant him and get out of school free pass card

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from mommy Dearest there let's try another example Say we

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have the sense jane ran to the pie Well the

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word ran is perfectly acceptable But what if jane's movements

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could be better articulated by a different word like skip

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your scurry or bolton Well these words are more descriptive

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than the word ran and they provide us with more

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interesting visual images While we tend to not think too

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hard before we speak in casual conversation Imagine the length

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writers go to in order to come up with the

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perfect word for something particular they want to convey Take

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this line from jane austen's pride and prejudice where darcy

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mentions that elizabeth has fine eyes now jane austen could've

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used any number of adjectives here She might have had

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darcy save it Elizabeth had lovely eyes or wide eyes

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or expressive eyes but she has him describe elizabeth i's

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as fine of all the words she might have chosen

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Jane austen went for this one Honest or what about

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this line from robert frost poem stopping by woods on

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a snowy evening where the narrator says that the woods

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are lovely dark and deep The words frost uses here

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not only convey a certain image but they continue the

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flow of his poetry is the word deep rhymes with

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a final word in the next three lines of the

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poem we might think that writers have a tough sweating

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over a fous rs or addiction areas They search for

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that perfect word but what about statesmen Take the opening

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words of abraham lincoln's gettysburg address Four score and seven

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years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a

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new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition

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that all men are created equal Okay so lincoln could

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have started his speech with the less poetical eighty seven

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years ago instead of kicking it old school with that

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four score and seven things But lincoln was a gifted

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order with a very specific goal for his speech Not

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only did he want to emphasize that civil war was

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a fight for the survival of the union But he

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also wanted americans to understand that the civil war was

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a battle for human equality Human equality set forth in

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the declaration of independence Written eighty seven also known as

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four score and seven years earlier in seventeen seventy six

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It is said that lincoln was ill with small pox

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when he gave the gettysburg address But let's be honest

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We know he's probably threatened over word choice Increasing our

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vocabulary So we have more choice when it comes towards

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isn't difficult books A great resource is as our books

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books and more books Yeah Also we can practice replacing

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the workhorse words we use when we talk or write

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of other vocabulary Won't max islam be surprised when he

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emerges from the bathroom and shows off what he's learned 00:04:48.8 --> [endTime] about word choice

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