To: CarrotAndStick
'Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly'If there's one thing I can't stand, it's overly-excessive, verbose and redundant wordiness.
8 posted on
11/01/2005 9:15:37 AM PST by
Maceman
(Fake but accurate -- and now double-sourced)
To: Maceman
"If there's one thing I can't stand, it's overly-excessive, verbose and redundant wordiness."One of my favorite lines from "Cheers" had Frasier Crane indignantly asking "Oh, so you're telling me I'm redundant? I repeat myself? I say the same things over and over?"
15 posted on
11/01/2005 9:20:25 AM PST by
jim macomber
(Author: "Bargained for Exchange", "Art & Part", "A Grave Breach" http://www.jamesmacomber.com)
To: Maceman
It's the language of the psuedo-intellectuals. They use a thousand words to say nothing.
To: Maceman
Not to mention pretentious, portentious, affected and self-indulgent, narcissistic, diffuse, garrulousness and loquacious prolixity.
30 posted on
11/01/2005 9:29:17 AM PST by
garyhope
To: Maceman
To the author's defense, I think it was tongue in cheek.
54 posted on
11/01/2005 9:48:25 AM PST by
DarkSavant
(I touch myself at thoughts of flames)
To: Maceman
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's overly-excessive, verbose and redundant wordiness. Didn't you mean overly-overly excessive, monumentally verbose and redundantlly repetitive wordiness?
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