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"kytourism.com"… clearly, somebody didn't think that domain name out very well.

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I'm noticing that my fondness for exactness of language and proper word choice is growing, not to mention the whole "please to be using grammar and spelling words properly, kthxbai" thing. As that sentence reflects, there's a certain amount of flexibility in what I consider exact and proper.
As an example of the sort of thing that's driving me crazy at the moment:
My French textbook told us that "content" and "heureux" both mean happy. This is patently not a precise definition for one of those words, because languages tend to be efficient in that synonyms have different connotations- joyful and ecstatic could both be defined simply as happy (by some dull and plodding simpleton), but they're different. So, while I'm willing to believe that heureux could just be "happy", I'm pretty sure that content does in fact mean content.
SO WHY DIDN'T THEY JUST SAY SO?! Contentment is not a difficult concept. I know I have a far better grasp of the English language than a fair portion of the population, and that a lot of word-things I find easy really aren't, but… content. Really, if you're learning another language you should at least know all of the two syllable words in your own.

/"why aren't other people as literate as me?" rant