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.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

"The crown ???"

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" (HENRY IV, PART II, I think- although it may be from KING JOHN)

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

"Beginner's luck ????"

"Every cloud has a silver lining"

[185JHP]

Panderosity? Pandering to the grandiose? Or your version of panderjocosity?

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

and close your tags too

[Allegra]

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

That one bears repeating. BUMP. (NO apostrophes for plurals!)

[Swordmaker]

Words are powerful tools; but, as with any tools, you have to know how to use them effectively.

On the other hand, some wordsmiths seem to only own a hammer...

[Jeff Gordon]

No pain, no gain ==> Nothing ventured, nothing gained?

[Swordmaker]

I think that if I had to communicate your phrase I would go with the long line of short words that people know rather than the short line of long words that people don't know. Better than that though, I would search for a better word. Alas, I tried and failed..."

It all depends on what the meaning of 'is' is.

[Orual]

[Jeff Gordon]

**?? (Perminently absented in simultaneous conjunction...)

Gone with the wind.

[Jeff Gordon]

Loose lips sink ships.? ==> There is many a slip between the cup and the lip.

[Betty Jane]

Thanks Jeff. Now if only the ATOMIC_PUNK or somebody would come up withthe rest.

[MinuteGal]

Lose lips sink ships, to.

Leni

[Destructor]

Yeah! Whatda yew thank yer dewin' throwin' round them big fifty dollar wurdz anywayz?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"rindfleischetikettierungsuberwachungsaufgabenubertragungsgesetz "

Gesundheit.

[ewchil]

If basic communication was more important than precision I should still have to go with the short words. Words people don't know communicate very little. That I own a dictionary doesn't imply that others do. Alas that this were not true...

[Ben Bolt]

Hey ! Nobody said Supercalafradgelisticespecialadocious ! -)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

And here's the rest from where Jeff left off.:

• All that glitters is not gold.
• Don't beat around the bush.
• The early bird gets the worm.
• Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
• Where there is smoke, there is fire.
• Pride goeth before a fall.
• Putting the cart before the horse.
• A stitch in time saves nine.
• To err is human, to forgive divine.
• Beggars cannot be choosers.
• Dead men tell no tales.
• All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.
• Haste makes waste.
• There is many a slip between the cup and the lip.
• He who laughs last laughs best.
• No pain, No gain.
• Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.
• When it rains it pours.
• When the cat's away, the mice will play.
• ???? Hmmm.
• Gone with the Wind.
• ???
• Don't sell yourself short.
• Don't use a $1.50 cent word when you've got a good 10 center handy.

  Apologies to anyone who may have beaten me to the punch. It took me a few minutes to translate these.

[Betty Jane]

The second to last one is:

Waste not, want not.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Waste not, want not. "

Yup. Re-reading it, I see it now.