Tell it to Your Avuncular

Lately, I've noticed that I learn new words a lot more often than I used to. I'm kind of proud of that fact, but I shouldn't feel so special because I'm sure a lot of you are noticing your constantly growing vocabularies too. Though I've always been an avid reader and love to write, pre-iPhone I wasn't able to look up a new word the second I came across it. With my phone, though, every time a definition slips my mind or I see an unfamiliar word, I have an app for that.
I have the dictionary app for looking things up, but I learn new words through playing games like Words with Friends too. By the way, if you were wondering what the hell "qi" means, it is defined on my laptop's Webster dictionary as such:

qi | ch ē| |kiː| (also chi or ki)
noun
the circulating life force whose existence and properties are the basis of much Chinese philosophy and medicine.
ORIGIN from Chinese ( Mandarin dialect) qì, literally ‘air, breath.’

You no longer have the right to tell your opponents they're cheaters when they use this to get big points, sorry.

I also recently acquired an app called CultiWords. Every time I use it, it will show me a word, have me guess the definition, and then tell me the definition. Do you know what gorgon means? Because I do, and it's a little offensive.
My point is that even though technology is everywhere and we use it for everything and it might turn our brains into mush, sometimes our smart phones can make us smarter. Download wisely.



(Pictures I do not own of apps that I do)