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Vocabulary help needed, please

#1 Post by KillerTomato » Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:50 am

I need help trying to come up with a word. I'm looking for a word that implies deliberate pomposity in word selection. Someone who specifically would say something was commodious, rather than big, f'rinstance.

Any suggestions?
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#2 Post by smilergrogan » Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:56 am

KillerTomato wrote:I need help trying to come up with a word. I'm looking for a word that implies deliberate pomposity in word selection. Someone who specifically would say something was commodious, rather than big, f'rinstance.

Any suggestions?
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#3 Post by ulysses5019 » Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:59 am

Gobbledygookness????
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#4 Post by ulysses5019 » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:00 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleonasm
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#5 Post by peacock2121 » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:01 am

wanker
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#6 Post by nitrah55 » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:02 am

Buckleyism.
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#7 Post by Peter5858 » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:03 am

KillerTomato wrote:I need help trying to come up with a word. I'm looking for a word that implies deliberate pomposity in word selection. Someone who specifically would say something was commodious, rather than big, f'rinstance.

Any suggestions?
Not quite bloviator, but close.

Certainly a linguistic pedant (but those are 2 words). Kinda has a nice pejorative bite to it.
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#8 Post by a1mamacat » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:03 am

KillerTomato wrote:I need help trying to come up with a word. I'm looking for a word that implies deliberate pomposity in word selection. Someone who specifically would say something was commodious, rather than big, f'rinstance.

Any suggestions?
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#9 Post by peacock2121 » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:04 am

a1mamacat wrote:
KillerTomato wrote:I need help trying to come up with a word. I'm looking for a word that implies deliberate pomposity in word selection. Someone who specifically would say something was commodious, rather than big, f'rinstance.

Any suggestions?
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#10 Post by Bob Juch » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:08 am

a1mamacat wrote:
KillerTomato wrote:I need help trying to come up with a word. I'm looking for a word that implies deliberate pomposity in word selection. Someone who specifically would say something was commodious, rather than big, f'rinstance.

Any suggestions?
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#11 Post by kayrharris » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:15 am

Saucy stole my answer! I would have used the same emoticon. :wink:

But I like Bob's reply as well. :)
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#12 Post by andrewjackson » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:15 am

sesquipedalian

http://www.answers.com/sesquipedalian&r=67
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#13 Post by KillerTomato » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:15 am

Thanks much for all the suggestions. I'm liking "linguistic pedantry"...
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#14 Post by christie1111 » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:23 am

Wordiness, floridity, tautology.

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#15 Post by Ritterskoop » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:24 am

pedantic
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#16 Post by a1mamacat » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:24 am

Bob Juch wrote:
a1mamacat wrote:
KillerTomato wrote:I need help trying to come up with a word. I'm looking for a word that implies deliberate pomposity in word selection. Someone who specifically would say something was commodious, rather than big, f'rinstance.

Any suggestions?
Juch


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Excuse me?! I very intentionally use simple language in my posts. After all, I know you will be reading them.

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#17 Post by peacock2121 » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:28 am

Bob Juch wrote:
a1mamacat wrote:
KillerTomato wrote:I need help trying to come up with a word. I'm looking for a word that implies deliberate pomposity in word selection. Someone who specifically would say something was commodious, rather than big, f'rinstance.

Any suggestions?
Juch


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Excuse me?! I very intentionally use simple language in my posts. After all, I know you will be reading them.
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#18 Post by tlynn78 » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:31 am

grandiloquence?

smarty-pants?


Terry? - I had a boss once who (in complete seriousness) asked me not to use words of more than three syllables.


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#19 Post by Peter5858 » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:43 am

KillerTomato wrote:Thanks much for all the suggestions. I'm liking "linguistic pedantry"...
Another possibility, of course, is asshole.
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#20 Post by silvercamaro » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:46 am

pomposity, grandiosity
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#21 Post by silvercamaro » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:46 am

Peter5858 wrote:
KillerTomato wrote:Thanks much for all the suggestions. I'm liking "linguistic pedantry"...
Another possibility, of course, is asshole.
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#22 Post by bazodee » Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:07 pm

Bombastic
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#23 Post by Beebs52 » Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:51 pm

Blithering bastiche
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#24 Post by gsabc » Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:00 pm

Verbositude
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#25 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:11 pm

Nobody said prolixity yet...

but I like Peter's choice. :P
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