Word of the day: fuliginous
It’s a word I immediately associate with David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.
Word of the day: fantod
“‘The U.S.A. fantods are meaning fear, confusion, standing hair.’”
Word of the day: banausic
It appears in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale KIng (2011), in the extraordinary last-class hortation spoken by a Jesuit substitute instructor of accountancy.
Word of the Day: sprachgefühl
“Sprachgefühl Necessitates Our Ongoing Tendance.”
DFW, “Your Liberal-Arts $ at Work”
“Pedantry is always tiresome, but it’s especially tiresome when the pedant doesn’t know what he is talking about.”
Bryan Garner on snoot
Bryan Garner glosses David Foster Wallace’s “snoot .”
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“Nonplussed,” correctly used, in Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace, nonplussed
Several years ago I came to realize that I misunderstood the meaning of the word nonplussed. So I am amused to see David Foster Wallace using the word correctly in his first novel, The Broom of the System.
Definitive Jest
Jarett Myskiw’s Definitive Jest: “a vocabulary-building and SNOOT-approved word-of-the-day blog centered around David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.”
David Foster Wallace’s dictionary
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