New posting rule....

[Stan]

"When promulgating your esoteric cogitations or articulating your superficial sentimentalities amicable, philosophical, or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosities. Let your extemporaneous verbal evaporations and expatiations demonstrate lucidity and intelligibility without rodomontade or thespian bombast. Sedulously eschew all and sundry polysyllabic profundity, verbosity and vapidity. Abhor all double entendre, obnoxious jocosity, and pestiferous profanity observable or apparent.

In other words, state precisely that which you wish to say without the use of excessively large words."

from a friend who quoted from some unknown source

[WayneV]

But Stan...

My gift is complicating the simple!

[Guest]

Ok Stan, I'll try to dumb it down a little bit.

[Stan]

I understand, it is going to be hard for a lot of us.

:)

[John317]

Looks like you're saying to assume your reader has about a sixth grade education. That's what news writers are told to do.

[SivartM]

My mind says that this is a good idea. (Note that each word is four long or less.) It will take some work but I can type tiny.

[Guest]

"When promulgating your esoteric cogitations or articulating your superficial sentimentalities amicable, philosophical, or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosities. Let your extemporaneous verbal evaporations and expatiations demonstrate lucidity and intelligibility without rodomontade or thespian bombast. Sedulously eschew all and sundry polysyllabic profundity, verbosity and vapidity. Abhor all double entendre, obnoxious jocosity, and pestiferous profanity observable or apparent.

This is quite classic, in a quintessential, and prototypical sense.

[Gail]

I hate platitudinous ponderosities! How about eschewing those, too?

[doug yowell]

"When promulgating your esoteric cogitations or articulating your superficial sentimentalities amicable, philosophical, or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosities. Let your extemporaneous verbal evaporations and expatiations demonstrate lucidity and intelligibility without rodomontade or thespian bombast. Sedulously eschew all and sundry polysyllabic profundity, verbosity and vapidity. Abhor all double entendre, obnoxious jocosity, and pestiferous profanity observable or apparent.

In other words, state precisely that which you wish to say without the use of excessively large words."

from a friend who quoted from some unknown source

Physician, heal thyself!(Even though I like this)

[doug yowell]

I hate platitudinous ponderosities! How about eschewing those, too?

As a conscientious SDA I have to protest the chewing of any of those types of things!!

[Bravus]

Well, yeah, I agree. Platitudes are way too cute to chew, with their little duck-bills. I think they're endangered, too. Ponderosas are at least vegetarian, but a little pinetarry for my taste.

[doug yowell]

But Stan...

My gift is complicating the simple!

That's OK,Wayne,You can lleps llams sdrow sdrawkcab.

[Woody]

Quote:

from some unknown source

I pay NO attention to unknown sources.

[LifeHiscost]

"When promulgating your esoteric cogitations or articulating your superficial sentimentalities amicable, philosophical, or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosities. Let your extemporaneous verbal evaporations and expatiations demonstrate lucidity and intelligibility without rodomontade or thespian bombast. Sedulously eschew all and sundry polysyllabic profundity, verbosity and vapidity. Abhor all double entendre, obnoxious jocosity, and pestiferous profanity observable or apparent.

In other words, state precisely that which you wish to say without the use of excessively large words."

from a friend who quoted from some unknown source

As to the last sentence. So what???? As to the previous full paragraph. I take it they didn't have the intelligence to understand what I last posted. As to my personal response to their said post above.

[Nan]

What if I really like to use obnoxious jocosity?

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

"When promulgating your esoteric cogitations or articulating your superficial sentimentalities amicable, philosophical, or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosities. Let your extemporaneous verbal evaporations and expatiations demonstrate lucidity and intelligibility without rodomontade or thespian bombast. Sedulously eschew all and sundry polysyllabic profundity, verbosity and vapidity. Abhor all double entendre, obnoxious jocosity, and pestiferous profanity observable or apparent.

In other words, state precisely that which you wish to say without the use of excessively large words."

from a friend who quoted from some unknown source

Here is the SOURCE :smile:

[LynnDel]

Very funny, Bravus.

What I would like to propose at this point is that we give Stan a few days to study, then give him a spelling test on that list of multisyllabic words he tossed at us in such a willy-nilly fashion.

LD

[doug yowell]

What if I really like to use obnoxious jocosity?

That would be perfectly fine if you are a true supporter of athletics.

[teresaq]

wow! what a mouthful! lol but then we are told to speak so a child can understand us...i think Jesus did too...

i, personally, like the k.i.s.s. idea...keep it simple, ----.