The inanity! Oh, the inanity!
Sorry it's taken me a little while to get going- I was on vacation last weekend and had to properly recover. I'll try not to bore you too much while Jen's away. I say this, not to be self deprecating, but because I'm generally not super exciting and insightful. In fact, one of my best talents is words (told you I'm not exciting). In fact, I usually post an almost weekly word of the week around the office. Of course this goes only to people who are appropriately cool enough not to fire me for being sarcastic in relation to current events. So this week I'm sharing with you.
Inanity, noun-(ih-nan-nit-tee)
1. silliness; lacking in significance
2. shallow or superficial
Example: Originally this post was going to be about my brilliant new analogy (that's right, analogy. similes use connecting words) for boys. I've decided, through careful observation and brilliant deduction, that boys are like hills. They are not like ogres- they do not resemble onions or anything like a parfait. They have one layer (yes, I am aware that hills have strata, but vocab is cool enough, I refuse to discuss geology). One layer- but the layer has different depths. Now, being educated, I am aware that this is a vast oversimplification and is also ambiguously either insulting or complimentary. So I thought that I should come up with something equally ambiguous as an analogy for girls. Why piss off only half of the population? Girls are like labyrinths. You can try to figure them out, but even if you figure it out, you just end up in the center with a minotaur (a ferocious Grecian, mythological creature that was half man and half bull). Really, there's just no winning. I tried to discuss this analogy with my former roommate, only to find that we were at complete impasse when she insisted that girls are not like labyrinths, which only have one solution and it never changes. Girls are like mazes- mazes having several solutions- more confusing. We had a twenty minute conversation about the nuanced meanings of labyrinths versus mazes. Let's just stop and consider that for a minute.
And there you have it. I have, all at once, proven that I may be "brilliant" ( I suspect Jen may have been exaggerating), but I am NOT exciting AND given you a real world-ish example of the perfect time to use the word inanity.
(Other forms are inane, inaneness and inanely and the plural is inanities.)
2 comments:
*original comment deleted due to lack of proofreading before posting (laugh it up kate)*
Just to be clear - mazes and labyrinths both only have one "solution", as in ending. However, a labyrinth does not give you any choices, whereas a maze gives you the choice of which way to turn. As we all know, it is a woman's prerogative to change her mind, and we all do quite frequently. There are many ways for men (and other females) to deal with us, hence the maze being the correct analogy. I do tend to agree with the minotaur aspect of the labyrinthine analogy though, due to almost all choices taken with a female eventually leading to the imminent attack! [Good luck finding your Theseus ladies!)
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