These are beautiful. I use about 60% of them in conversation because they add richness, charm, and hilarity to otherwise mundane things. If you really want to g

These are beautiful. I use about 60% of them in conversation because they add richness, charm, and hilarity to otherwise mundane things. If you really want to get into the culture, read literary fiction from up to about the mid-20th century. Tiktok generation kids seem like native speakers with second language vocabularies, and a lot of them think in banal cliches. Words encode valuable cultural concepts, and I've found people who militate for simple language are often propagandists of one sort or another.