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WotD: Windbag
No, a windbag is not a bag of wind, and it’s not one of those brightly coloured things you see flapping in the wind at airports.
That is a windsock.
A windbag is a person who talks too much about boring things.
You probably know someone like that, or perhaps you married one.
I suppose we all have spoken ad nauseam about a topic of no interest to anyone else.
My father, bless his soul, passed away a little more than a year ago.
He was a good man, but he often became a windbag after a few beers.
I know I should not speak ill of the dead, but I am using my suffering for academic purposes.
Imbibing alcohol tends to transform some people into windbags.
Yes, some become inebriated, then sleepy and fall silent.
Ah, blissful silence.
Others tend to talk about foolish or outright stupid things.
In other words, they become windbags and insist on having deep and meaningful discussions about the colour of socks, the stupidity of politicians or why the HB on an HB pencil stands for ‘hard black’ and means ‘medium hard.’
Those are some of the things windbags discuss while watching TV or doing anything other than having a discussion.
Of course, you may think I am a windbag (heaven knows my wife sometimes does) because of the things I discuss and write.
However, I assure you I am not drunk.
One of the requirements of being a language teacher is being a windbag at times or otherwise having the gift of gab.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 72.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.