"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

-Indigo Montoya (The Princess Bride)

{Day 22}


Words are often a peculiar thing
I really like them so -
but it can be hard to use them
when the meaning does not flow

If you need an example, well,
today I thought  - perfunctory -
this word should not include the fun
it leads me to perplexity


not to mention inevitible misuse
this word which rolls so,  off the tongue
a pleasure to say - multi-syllables, too
makes the definition just seem wrong!


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per • func • to • ry [per-fuhngk-tuh-ree]

adjective

 

1.     performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.

 

2.     lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; indifferent or apathetic: In his lectures he reveals himself to be merely a perfunctory speaker.