Words That David Foster Wallace Circled in His Dictionary

spearhead
spearhead Posts: 600
edited April 2010 in The Porch
OK ... indulge me for a moment ... today's SLATE.COM had this article about the brilliant writer David Foster Wallace (who killed himself a year or so ago) and the particular words he had circled in his copy of the American Heritage Dictionary ... a lot of really weird words like pleach and recrudesce and tabanid that I had never ever heard of before .... there's a link below so you can check it out for yourself ... one word caught my eye however, and I was surprised to read its definition: AMENT ... the entry is below:



What David Foster Wallace Circled in His DictionaryA complete list, courtesy of the Ransom Center.
Posted Wednesday, April 14, 2010, at 11:16 AM ET

http://www.slate.com/id/2250784/

a•ment2 ( m nt , m nt) KEY

NOUN:
A person with severely deficient intellectual capacity.


**** I think it should have an alternate definition: bad ass motherfucker, bass player with PEARL JAM!
I was alone and far away when I heard the band start playing!

...I was always a DeadHead, but when I first heard Winston Rodney, aka the Burning Spear, sing, I became a SpearHead too!
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  • Stypo420
    Stypo420 Posts: 519
    a•ment2 ( m nt , m nt) KEY

    NOUN:
    A person with severely deficient intellectual capacity.


    **** I think it should have an alternate definition: bad ass motherfucker, bass player with PEARL JAM!

    :lol:

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