A Way With Words

My dear friend Buzz has one of the largest vocabularies of anyone I know. But surprisingly he always manages to use the wrong words in conversation. I was speaking to him after a long day at work when I mentioned I was tired and not thinking clearly. His response: "Is talking to me like a fantasy?" Um no, Buzz, it's not. An illusion maybe, but certainly not a fantasy.

Buzz is also notorious for using variations of words within the same sentence: I'm encouraged by your encouragement, I'm impressed by your impressiveness, I'm writing a piece of writing, etc. And my guess is that he won't be amused by my amusement when he reads this...