Don't Use Big Words

Found hand written in an old Bible | unknown | unknown

[cornelis]

"By George, she's got it!"

[otterpond]

I would go with the long line of short words

Nah. You wouldn't. Poly-syllabic utterances eschew the necessity to be verbose and conserve bandwidth at the same time. Precision in communication confers efficiency. Try it. You'll like it.

[AIBC]

By mystifying the symptoms of the paradoxical illusion, an extravagant statement as the above-mentioned will not intercalate any alterations to my reminiscences or transform my abstract tendencies.

[otterpond]

Francis Coppola Diamond Series Black Label Claret (1999 Cabernet Sauvignon)

Too fruity for my taste. Besides, I like a real cork.

[lepton]

poink

[cornelis]

Quercus suber. pro sit!

[Consort]

"Don't use big words."

How about this:

 _{In promulgating your esoteric cogitations, or articulating your superficial sentimentalities and amicable, philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communications possess a clarified conciseness, a compact comprehensibleness, coalescent consistency, and a concatenated cogency. Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectations. Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rhodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity and vaniloquent vapidity. Shun double-entendres, purient pscosity, and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent.}

[Betty Jane]

O.K. Punk, when are you going to post the answers?

I figured out all but four and one of them I'm not really sure of.

Please post the answers soon.

[sweetliberty]

"We don't have spell check!"

Can you say "dictionary??

[tbird1]

By George, I think you've got it.

[WL-law]

Sounds familiar -- is this the first paragraph in Cornel West's latest book?

[mrsmith]

Now when I walk the streets
kings and queens step aside
Every woman I meet
they all stay satisfied.
I wanna tell ya, baby
what I see I make my own.
And I'm here to tell ya, pretty woman
that I'm rodomontade!
ro-ro-rodomontade!
ro-ro-rodomontade!
ro-ro-rodomontade!
rodomontade!

[cornelis]

Arrogant Saracens, what's up with them lately?

[Jeff Gordon]

No Sesquipedalians Allowed

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

At least, if you are going to use "big words", learn to spell them correctly! I lost track after the first half-dozen errors. Glad I'm not his copy-editor!

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Think I got them all- is the third from the last "Look before you leap"?

[Jeff Gordon]

Beauty is only skin deep
Still water runs deep
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
Birds of feather flock together
Don't cry over spilt milk.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Strike while the iron is hot.
The calm that follows the storm.
The crown ???
Too many cooks sppoled the broth
Beginner's luck
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Variety is the spice of life
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Twinkle, twinkle little star
You can not teach an old dog new tricks
Early to bed, early to rise is healthy, wealthy and wise.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
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A bird in the cage is worth two in the bush.
You can lead a horse to water but you can not make it drink.

[Dust in the Wind]

Bump for a way to find this later. What happened to the bookmark button?

[Betty Jane]

All that glitters is not gold.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

THe early bird gets the worm.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

where there's smoke, there's fire.

Pride cometh before a fall First things first, or don't put the cart before the horse

A atitch in time saves nine.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Dead men tell no tales

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Haste makes waste.

Loose lips sink ships.?

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 cats away, the mice will play.

A dime for a shoe shine?

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don't use big words.