My husband is one of the sweetest people I know. He would do anything to make me happy. He is warm, loves children, is patient, and is an unbelievable listener. But he does have his faults as well. Matt cannot spell to save his soul. His grammar is awful and I have to read his emails 4 or 5 times before they make much sense. Once AfricanKelli gave him a book called "21 days to better English." I am pretty sure that the book is meant for non-English speakers, but Matt usually fits that category so all was well. Today I received an email from him with many many mistakes and it took me a while to get through the majority. He had spelled cynical 'cenicle', and had a few other issues. But then I came upon this statement: "It is captious to ask them to come with us and spark a needed debate." My initial reaction was laughter in that he made up a word. What the heck is captious? What did he mean by such a statement? How can this be correct? So I called to make fun of him. And what do you know he stood by his statement. So I pulled out the good old online dictionary and what do you know, it is a WORD.
captious (KAP-shuss)
1 : marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections
*2 : calculated to confuse, entrap, or entangle in argument
And it worked in his sentence. How is this possible! Tears came down my face in hilarity because 1 he should have so focused the definition of this statement at me for pointing out his faults so much and 2 this was truly a momentous occasion and I couldn't' believe he was actually right.
But it gets better. I came to find out he has been getting emails with words of the day. He is cheating and actually using the words they send him. I about peed my pants when he let go of that little secret. But god bless him for trying. Maybe I need to not be so cenicle.
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