What an engaging discourse! I too embrace the hypothesis that an ostentatious display of verbal pyrotechnics, complete with perfectly punctuated sub-clauses, is enriching and ennobling for speaker and listener alike.

And then I avail myself of some refreshing Crabbie's ginger beer or two (accompanied by a snifter or three of Jack Daniels) and suddenly me vocablu.... vocaliblurry.... words abandon me and I sound like Shane.


Feck.