Timber, bless his heart, has great clarity. I never have to figure anything out about what he is saying. Spendi, on the other hand, wafts in fancy and slamdances words. I usually disagree with him, staring bemused with sometimes begrudging bits of delight.
Still, who are the quattro-syllabic here?
You might guess by now I am not of the coterie who want to symplify communication...
except on signage.
Maybe not slamdances, that's too ballistic. Ok, badmintons words.
I took my creative writing from Mark van Doren. He always said, never extend the length of the words you use unless you have a damn good reasomn, and sounding smart is not one of them.
His poetry was dense as chili but his prose was criso and cler. That why I always like Larry McMurtry's writing. He could make period prose sound alive and bitchin.
aaaaaaaand, I suspect our thread poster is for simplifying.
I like him too, and I like other 'spare' writers. But I don't like only them.
Hmm, Harvey knew the van Dorens. 6 degrees of connection...
HE was pretty old but really sharp and quite wit. His knowledeg of Greek and Classical English writing was something to behold. He was on emeritus status at Columbia when I had him.
PS whats wrong with sesquipedalian or euphuistic? this question has quite a few answers methinks. Francis gets full credit as do I.
I think Francis' is the better word, "sesquipedalian."
But alas, apparently not what the author of the thread was look for
I still like logorrhea -- a diarrhea of words. (Especially since you called it 'bullshit', Farmer.
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yes we must not forget MA. However , logorhea has always been used to describe symptomology of a mental condition where people just put together neologisms and nonsense words. ALSO my euphuistic(I went and actually looked it up after I posted) is derivative paen of a single authors style, one who was fond of creating "Fine" style writing for its own sense, but mostly unwarranted for good communication.
So, in recalculating grades MA and I get partial credit while Francis gets full credit.(along with theword that the author was looking for=bombastic. We must be aware that there are often many answers to a specific question)
cacoethesloquendi.
That's posher than logorhea.
spendius wrote:cacoethesloquendi.
That's posher than logorhea.
I quite agree, Spendius.
(But I doubt I'll remember how to spell it.)
Andy-
How about-
Tractatustrailersephemerascatalogicus.
spendi is our resident tibialoconcupiscent who's also an accomplished verbigerationist
spendius wrote:Andy-
How about-
Tractatustrailersephemerascatalogicus.
How about --
pneumonoultramiscroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
It's got nothing to do with logorrhea or eupheusitic but I do love a 45-letter word.
That's the official longest; but I like 'sesquipedalian' for a long word, literally 'lasting for one and a half feet' of verse metre.
Theres huuuge word that, because of its length looks almost Welsh. Its a word that means "A meal that is made up of leftovers rom meals that were made of leftovers from the previous two weeks" Its in the Grandiloquent Dictionary.com
I don't believe it's a real genuine word, even though you joined A2K on my birthday, Mr Farmer
Did it make your day Clary?
