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Extirpate Sesquipedalianism!
I've been going around saying, "Extirpate sesquipedalianism!" the past couple of days, and only one person seemed to fully get it and laugh. (It means "Stamp out the use of long words.") One man thanked Father McCormick for his knowledge of Latin, and decoded the second word as involving a foot and a half (that is, words that are a foot and a half long), but even he didn't fully understand.
Anonymous
June 11 2010, 21:32:00 UTC 1 year ago
Public Display of Polysyllabicity
The person who got this is truly brilliant and certainly doesn't suffer from hippomonstrosesquippedaliophobia! You should buy that person a fine bottle of mead!Anonymous
June 14 2010, 02:13:53 UTC 1 year ago
Re: Public Display of Polysyllabicity
Thank you, thank you, nice to be fully appreciated at last!June 12 2010, 04:09:37 UTC 1 year ago
I appreciate you.
I get it. Orotund verbophiles get it. Sesquipedalian is my antepenultimate favorite word (after antepenultimate (which is my penultimate favorite word) and nuncupatory (which is my ultimate)).It's as funny as 'Carpe Noctem' -- another joke no one gets.
June 12 2010, 04:35:51 UTC 1 year ago
Re: I appreciate you.
I'm flattered by your comment. Personally, I know "antepenultimate," but not "nuncupatory." To the dictionary!(Et "carpe noctem" intellego.)
Anonymous
August 12 2010, 07:45:56 UTC 1 year ago
Whatever happened to
eschewing obfuscation?Anonymous
August 12 2010, 07:53:55 UTC 1 year ago
also
I never took Latin per se, but I think that being taught how to actually read through intensive phonics (as opposed to how to pretend-read, as many children have been instructed) helps one focus on roots of words, and figure out meanings of unfamiliar ones. At least, when they are Latin- or Greek-based.
David H