[Graehstone]

All this talk about which words to use and which to leave by the wayside ... words do make a difference.

The author of the following is sadly unknown otherwise I would certainly give credit where it is due as I think this is just fabulous:


The Use of Big Words

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

Let your conversational communications
possess a clarified conciseness,
a coalescent consistency and a concatenated cogency
Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity,

Jejune babblement and asinine affections.
Let your extemporaneous descantings and
unpremeditated expatiation’s have intelligibility and
veracious vivacity without rodomontade or thrasonical bombast.

Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity,
setaceous vacuity,
ventriloqual verbosity or
vain vapidity,

Obscurant or apparent,
Shun double entendre,
purulent jocosity and
pestiferous profanity.

In other words…
Say what you mean and
mean what you say,
and don't use big words!!


And here are a few new ones that I think everyone should have in their vocabulary:

1) Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

2) Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

3) Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

4) Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

5) Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

6) Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

7) Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

8) Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.

9) Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

10) Glibido: All talk and no action.

11) Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

And, the pick of the litterature:

12) Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.


Number Nine is my favorite, lol.

[Au_Hunter]

LOL... :slaugh:

Thanks Graehstone...

The "old school" version of #12 was "sexual intellectal" :smile2:

[BrattonBasher]

S.I. Hayakawa would be very interested in this, if he was not dead!

[OakSmokeMJA]

Words are very important.

there's too much sarchasm in the world, not enough hipatis.