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Thread #29001 Message #1255295
Posted By: JennyO
24-Aug-04 - 10:58 AM
Thread Name: a little something for pedants and... (profanity)
Subject: RE: a little something for pedants and langu
The Use of Big Words
In promulgating your esoteric cogitations or articulating your superficial sentimentalities and amicable philosophical and psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosities.
Let your conversational communications possess a clarified conciseness, a compacted comprehensibleness, a coalescent consistency and a concatenated cogency.
Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectations.
Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity without rodomontade or thrasonical bombast.
Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity.
Shun double entendre, prurient jocosity and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent!
In other words…
Say what you mean
Mean what you say
And above all, don't use big words!!