Don't Use Big Words

Found hand written in an old Bible | unknown | unknown

[SrBirdman]

DON'T USE BIG WORDS

In promulgating your esoteric cogitation's or articulating your superficial and sentimentalities and amicable philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous panderosity.

Let your conversational communications possess a clarified conciseness, a compact comprehensibiliness coalescent consistency and a concatenated cogency. Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectations. Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiation's have intelligibility and veracious vivacity without rodomontade or thrasonical bombast.

Sedulously avoid all polysyllable profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vivacity, ventriloquial verbosity and magniloquent rapidity. Shun double entendres, previnient jacosity and pestifereous profanity, observant or apparent.

In other words, talk plainly, briefly, naturally, sensibly,truthfully, purely, keep from slang, don't put on airs, say what you mean, mean what you say and DON'T USE BIG WORDS.

[SrBirdman]

OK Freepers, keep this in mind when posting or responding.

[Ben Bolt]

Hard copy that ! out.

[Luke FReeman]

Whatever!

[cornelis]

Less Latin, more English? All journalists should memorize Shakespeare, at least.

[hoosiermama]

How can I ? We don't have spell check!

[TheConservator]

And for G*d's sake learn when to use apostrophes, and when not to!

[dighton]

O G, I C.

[cornelis]

K.I.S.S.

[strela]

In other words, eschew obfuscation.

[week 71]

DON'T USE BIG WORDS

With government(public) schools this really shouldn't be a problem. Most of the population is sufficiently dumbed down, so it is easier to understand rap music as opposed to Shakespear.

[gcruse]

I refuse to take part in the dumbing down of the English language.

[PrairieFire]

Superfluity does not vitiate.

[cornelis]

You muste spelle Shake speare righte-o!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Good advice......my husband and I tell our children, "We do NOT want to observe you masticating either.......so close your mouth"

[otterpond]

Are you Funk&Wagnell challenged? Is Roget's your worst nightmare? Frequently, using a word correctly diminishes the volume of verbage necessary to express a concept.For example, a ferrago of footlers is a lot easier than writing about a varied collection of individuals who waste time, space, and breath in pursuing nonsense. You might want to reconsider.

[week 71]

Evidently my public school upbringing is shinning through. Plus I was typing fast. :-)

[bluefish]

Yo, word up bro.

[cornelis]

ferrago? Juvenal would have changed your mind.

[jrewingjr]

Tell that to the English teacher who sent the boy to the principal's office for "masticating in class."

[tacticalogic]

All your polysyllabics are belong to us.