...And You'd Better Use Some SAT Adjectives (copy / paste :)

Hot girl: Hmmm, that's a synecdochical headline.
Hot boyfriend: What does "synecdochical" mean?
Hot girl: Well, synecdoche is a figure of speech where a part of something is used to stand for the whole of it, or where the whole of something is used to stand for a part of it. So, in that newspaper that guy is reading, when they say, "Detroit uses bailout money," they really are talking about the automobile industry, not all of Detroit. They're using all of Detroit to refer to a major part of Detroit's economy. Synecdoche. They use this in newspapers all the time, come to think of it.
Hot boyfriend, smiling but clearly no longer following her: Girl, look at that vocabulary! You're so smart.
Hot girl, flatly: Yes, yes, I'm very smart. Now shut up about that and tell me how pretty I am.

  --6 Train

Overheard by: someone with different priorities


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