as i recall the soother used it previously. Dangus, perhaps you are unfamiliar with our thread but we have been around for about 10 years on FR, doing our word thang. we are interested in words, no matter how many syllables, interesting words and boring words. it’s what we do : )
Please refer back to the first comment I made, which mentioned specifically how my comments were not meant to knock the thread, and which appreciated tioga’s work. I know that there are people whose rhetorical style it is to say, “I don’t mean to call say you smell bad, but pee-yoo!” I am not such. I mean what I write. I’m just adding to that my dislike for pretense. It seemed relevant to some, since a stated purpose of the thread is to ease effective communication.
Eloquence does not mean simple-minded language. The best word may be a relatively unfamiliar one. The Douay-Rheims bible, for instance, retains many “Latinisms,” so that the reader may learn the precise theological concept through learning the word.
Further, I recognize that sometimes, it’s fun to use a newly learnt word.
I was only expressing why you’d never catch me using Brobdingnagian.