Posted on 07/23/2007 7:30:03 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative
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Paradigm and impeach. Two words that within the last five years have become overused in the extreme (generally by dolts trying to sound intelligent).
I'll bet you saw it before that. It's in Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer."
Send this list to Bill O’reilley and watch his head explode.
Well, the whole point WAS to point out how very much smarter than the rest of us they are.
This reminds me of a quote (Mark Twain?) about the behavior of people who are educated above their intellect.
;-)
I would think that if you used more than about a half dozen in any one sentence, that sentence would be less than coherent.
“For the record, I’m familiar with all those words, and use them quite often.”
I’m an editor and writer, and if you use ALL those words quite often, you are a very strange and pretentious person, IMO.
shouldn’t half these words be in Spanish? /s/
My suggestions:
Please
Thank
you
Excuse
me
I’m
sorry
let
me
help
you
with
that
go
first
I’ll
wait
I know all the geography references:
Ziggurat is the nickname of the Federal Building in Laguna Niguel, CA.
The 2nd Marine Division is based in Camp Jejune, NC.
The first battle of the Revolutionary War was fought in Lexicon, MA.
I have a hundred of these (and a high school diploma).
At your service, Harpo. (g!)
Paradigm has definitely worn out its welcome. It and “dynamic” (used as a noun) should go into hiding for a while.
cause it’s a great candy bar.
You try to cross that river on a chicken, you’ll find out ziggurat.
“moiety” is the sole word on this list I have never read, and did not comprehend.
After reading the definition, it is a word so rare that it invalidates the list, as all of the other obscure words are still in actual practical use.
I’ve always been taught that instructional manuals should be written to the level of a high school sophomore, perhaps now it should be to the level of a 6th grader.
The list in the post seems to have been compiled by some egghead liberal arts and science graduate with no idea of what it takes to function in the real world.
Useless, IMHO. Better to teach them useful things like, cr8.
Just wait until your property purchase in Louisiana, which you thought was a really good deal, is undone because it was a lesion beyond moeity. THEN you'll wish that you had looked it up.
"The harm suffered by a seller who does not receive at least one-half the value of the property he has sold." Don't scroll down if you don't want the definition.
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It means half.
They forgot “verbose”.
Such five-dollar words are important only insofar as they offer a greater precision of meaning than their less impressive counterparts. "Jejune" is a perfectly lovely word but I'd just as soon hear a young person say "dull" if he means "dull" or "immature" if she means "immature." It has a certain poetic value if one is attempting to rhyme "moon," "tune," "pontoon," or "tampoon," but other than that I'd prefer brevity, thanks.
Nothing says "I'm trying to snow you" more than the improper use of an overly elaborate word in a phrase that calls for a simpler one. Anyone who has read resumes knows what I'm talking about. These young people will be writing them. All IMHO and subject to debate, of course.
You use moitey?
They left out obstreperous and propinquity.
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