Feel-Good Language

(My boyfriend and I are talking on the phone about my plans to work out more and be healthier in general. He is a scientist, while I am a writer.)

Boyfriend: “You know, exercising is proven to release feel good thingies in your head. It’s a fact.”

Me: “By ‘feel good thingies in your head’, I assume you mean ‘endorphins in your brain’?”

Boyfriend: “Well, I didn’t want to get all technical on you.”

Me: “God forbid.”