On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:41:22 -0800, jps wrote:
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:15:31 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:01:07 -0600, wrote:
BTW, Em, I was speaking of obsequiosness, not an informal bow.
Guess he's not god like - when he's obsequious anyway.
Pretty much like he's a shrimp when he's not a big oaf.
And he's senile when he's not juvenile.
I think I get it.
--Vic
Big words are always better if they make the writer sound smart.
Unless they serve to garble the writer's meaning, cloud the intended
message and confuse or mislead the reader.
Big or little, they have meaning.
Obsequious is big only in syllables.
I prefer beggarly bugger.
Hope you're all feeling supercalifragalisticexpealidocious.
Mary Poppins. Never could get through that.
I got broke in on antidisestablismentariaism.
Then I quit.
--Vic.