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

Hard copy that ! out.

Whatever!

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

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

O G, I C.

In other words, eschew obfuscation.

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.

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

Superfluity does not vitiate.

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

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.

Yo, word up bro.

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

All your polysyllabics are belong to us.

My Franklin Languagemaster would melt down in double time if I tried that...

Avoid the sesquipedalian?

An expert writer uses vocabulary to elevate the reader's comprehension. A vanity writer attempts to be prolific to the detriment of comprehension. Words are powerful tools; but, as with any tools, you have to know how to use them effectively.

hmmm. as I watch Charlton Heston in The Ten Commandments, I am just now realizing that this hand written in an old Bible screed was the missing Commandment that Moses smashed in disgust. I can see why.

Huh?

OBFUSCATIONS OF CELEBRATED ORACULAR UTTERANCES

Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
Compounds of hydrogen and oxygen in the proportion of two to one that are without visible movement invariably tend to flow with profundity.
A body of persons abiding in a domicile of silica with metallic oxides should not carelessly project small geologic specimens.
Members of an avian species or identical plumage congregate.
It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately departed lacteal fluid.
Where there is sufficient positive volition a successful conclusion may usually be anticipated.
Cast a stroke at the propitious moment when the silver-white metallic substance is of excessive temperature.
A tremendous disturbance of the atmosphere is generally succeeded by a corresponding period of absolute tranquility.
The customary symbol of regal power does not necessarily indicate desirable mental tranquility.
A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques vitiate the potable concoction produced by steeping certain compatibles.
Neophyte's serendipity.
Each mass of vapory collection suspended in the firmament has an interior decoration of metallic hue.
Variations from the ordinary or common routine of experience are that which gives zest to man's cycle of existence.
Those who possess unusually little intellect often project themselves into situations where the winged, ethereal likenesses of men hesitate to perambulate.
Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minific.
Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to deification.
It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.
He who locks himself into the arms of Morpheus promptly at eventide and starts the day before it is officially announced by the rising sun, excels in physical fitness, increases in economic assets, and cerebrates with remarkable efficiency.
Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.
The cognomens of those bereft of efficiency of judgment are definitely similar of the portion of their anatomy that extends from the brow to the lower extremity of the lower jaw, in constantly being perceived on display in sites of prominence.
A feathered biped in a gilded cage is equivalent to double that number at large.
Equine quadrupeds may indubitably be induced to approach that well-known standard of specific gravity, but not necessarily be induced to imbibe thereof.
All articles, which coruscate with resplendence, are not truly auriferous.
Calculus concretions in rotary transition glean negligible bryophitic accretion.
The incontinently astirring rascorial vertebrae apprehends the lytta-like verminicular invertabrae.
It hath been deemed unwise to calculate upon the quantity of junior poultry prior to the completion of proper incubation.
Where there are visible vapors having their provenience in ignited carbonaceous materials, there will be also observed conflagration.
Unwanted egotism prophesies the speedy effect of the force of gravity.
The placement of the termination as a precedent to the commencement should never be essayed.
A small, one-eyed steel instrument used at the crucial moment may rescue the square of three.
To depart from the path of rectitude is characteristic of the human species, but to be tolerant, loving and kind toward wrongdoers is Godlike.
Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
Male cadavers are incapable of yielding testimony.
Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders John a hebetudinous fellow.
Accelerated execution often produces faulty results.
History records numerous painful occurrences between the drinking vessel and the facial aperture which it wished to contact.
The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.
Abstention from any eleatory undertaking precludes a potential accumulation of a lucrative nature.
Missiles of ligneous or oterous consistency have the potential of fracturing my osceous structure, but appellations will eternally remain innocuous.
When the humidity attains the bursting point it does so profusely.
When the feline quadruped is conspicuous by its absence the lesser rodents avail themselves of the opportunity to participate in some unrestrained frivolity.
Pedal habiliments of variegated hue and design artistically lubricated and illuminated with ambidextrous facility for the infinitesimal remuneration of 10 cents per operation.
Permanently absented in simultaneous confunction with severely agitated admixtures of nitrogen and oxygen.
One should hypersthetically exercise macrography on that situs which one should eventually tenant should one propel oneself into the troposphere.
Do not dissipate your competence by habitudenous prodigality lest you subsequently lament an exiguous inadequacy.
In promulgating your esoteric cogitations and articulating your superficial sentimentalities or amicable philosophical observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosities.