[Canard]

I'm just amused that she can call for an end to pompous and ostentatious language when her husband refers to himself as "Lord Godfrey Macdonald of Macdonald, the high chief of the Clan Donald"!

Also that the Scotsman can't spell the 'Isle of Skye'!

[Capriole]

I'm just amused that she can call for an end to pompous and ostentatious language when her husband refers to himself as "Lord Godfrey Macdonald of Macdonald, the high chief of the Clan Donald"!

It would be pompous and ridiculous here, but in Scotland that title is a legal designation, not an ostentation.

[joebuck]

See the Asians have it right. Short, totally non descriptive names. "Egg Roll". If you tried to list on the menu everything in an egg roll it would take a paragraph and you'd never eat one again, so they just call it an egg roll. If you ask what's in it, they tell you egg roll stuffing. But they taste good, the word got out, and that's all that matters.

[aruanan]

I'm just amused that she can call for an end to pompous and ostentatious language when her husband refers to himself as "Lord Godfrey Macdonald of Macdonald, the high chief of the Clan Donald"!

Is he a Lord? Is there a Clan Donald? Is he the high chief of this clan? If it's completely descriptive language, it's neither pomp nor ostentation.