I feel as though I’ve mentioned in each of these reflections how pleased I was with what I read, and that has never been more true than today. I honestly forgot that I was reading this for an assignment many times during this section. The chapter I enjoyed the most has a name I don’t feel comfortable mentioning in a piece of writing that I’m going to turn in for a grade, but it deals with something I know arguably too much about: the use of “inappropriate” language. I liked this chapter so much because not only did it mirror some of the conversations I have with my friends about language use, it went beyond discussing the outrage caused by specific words and provided some history of these words’ censorship and the elements of the taboo that surround them. I was, again, shocked at the amount of words I’d get thrown into ALC for. Even though this is a chapter about cussing, it’s just so strange to see that volume of especially unsavory terms in a book a teacher told me I could read. It’s beyond strange, really. I’d go so far as to say alien because I’m thinking back on the feeling I got after approximately the fifth time I saw the f-word in this book and only thing going through my head is the X-Files theme.
 “Flaunting the Rules” was also an interesting chapter. It brought my attention to some cliches that I had no clue were cliches. When he was talking about words that are different but often used interchangeably, I didn’t know some of them at all, so I couldn’t really compare any of them without looking them up first. I only looked up two or three, in the interest of time. The most interesting difference to me was between fortunate and fortuitous. I didn’t know fortuitous would be a synonym for lucky. I think that’s a word I’ll have to incorporate into my everyday speech. It’s got a nice ring to it. 
 I’m almost sad that this book is drawing to a close. I knew I wasn’t going to hate it, but I didn’t know I’d like it as much as I do. I definitely think it should stay on the list of recommended books for summer reading assignments. It’s refreshing, especially compared to the last work of nonfiction I had to read for an assignment like this: Edith Hamilton’s Mythology. I read a lot more of that book than what was required, just because I didn’t like half of the things she was saying about how superior Greek mythology was. I can’t explain the logic behind that, and that very well might be because there isn’t any.