A Stodgy Know-It-All
Someone called me that in response to my post about John Scalzi’s writing advice.
If we look at Thesaurus.com, we’ll see that I’m only 50% know it all, whose synonyms are: “brain, smart aleck, smart-mouth, walking encyclopedia.”
I think we all know which two apply and which two don’t.
And I’m only 34.6% stodgy (the hits are in bold): “banausic, blah [I say this all the time], boring, dim, dreary [I live in New England], formal, fuddy-duddy, heavy, humdrum, labored [popped out two, thank you], monotonous, pedantic, pedestrian, plodding, ponderous, square, squaresville [that’s pretty square itself!], staid, stuffy, tedious, turgid [but I prefer magniloquent], unexciting, unimaginative, uninspired [I’m not that into perspiration], uninteresting, weighty.”
I wonder what the other 15.4% is.
