“Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment. Simple truths with complicated clothes on. The only purpose of the linguistic dressing-up is so people won’t look at the contents of our naked hearts and minds and say ‘How naff.’ ” She frowned. “ ‘Naff’?” “It’s a British slang term, meaning trite or banal, but with an extra overtone of … uh … nerdishness. Uncoolness. Dorkishness.”
