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Don't Use Big Words
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Posted on 03/31/2002 5:16:38 PM PST by 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.
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bigwords
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OK Freepers, keep this in mind when posting or responding.
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posted on
03/31/2002 5:16:38 PM PST
by
SrBirdman
To: SrBirdman
Hard copy that ! out.
2
posted on
03/31/2002 5:17:44 PM PST
by
Ben Bolt
Whatever!
To: SrBirdman
Less Latin, more English? All journalists should memorize Shakespeare, at least.
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posted on
03/31/2002 5:19:16 PM PST
by
cornelis
To: dorben
How can I ? We don't have spell check!
To: SrBirdman
And for G*d's sake learn when to use apostrophes, and when not to!
To: SrBirdman
O G, I C.
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posted on
03/31/2002 5:22:10 PM PST
by
dighton
To: dighton
K.I.S.S.
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posted on
03/31/2002 5:23:47 PM PST
by
cornelis
To: SrBirdman
In other words, eschew obfuscation.
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posted on
03/31/2002 5:23:58 PM PST
by
strela
To: SrBirdman
DON'T USE BIG WORDSWith 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.
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posted on
03/31/2002 5:26:19 PM PST
by
week 71
To: SrBirdman
I refuse to take part in the dumbing down of the English language.
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posted on
03/31/2002 5:27:14 PM PST
by
gcruse
To: SrBirdman
Superfluity does not vitiate.
To: week 71
You muste spelle Shake speare righte-o!
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posted on
03/31/2002 5:28:00 PM PST
by
cornelis
To: SrBirdman
Good advice......my husband and I tell our children, "We do NOT want to observe you masticating either.......so close your mouth"
To: SrBirdman
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.
To: cornelis
Evidently my public school upbringing is shinning through. Plus I was typing fast. :-)
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posted on
03/31/2002 5:30:25 PM PST
by
week 71
To: SrBirdman
Yo, word up bro.
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posted on
03/31/2002 5:31:27 PM PST
by
bluefish
To: otterpond
ferrago? Juvenal would have changed your mind.
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posted on
03/31/2002 5:32:08 PM PST
by
cornelis
To: SrBirdman
Tell that to the English teacher who sent the boy to the principal's office for "masticating in class."
To: SrBirdman
All your polysyllabics are belong to us.
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