‘Sesquipedalian’ is a sesquipedalian term! Only the grandiloquent would use such a term, just as they use ‘grandiloquent’.
May 20, 2008...10:36 pm
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May 21, 2008 at 7:56 am
Ha ha ha. Nicely done. And yes, I learned 2 new words in this post. It was educational! After consulting the dictionary, I concurred with you.
It’s pretty straightforward, actually.
May 21, 2008 at 11:17 am
I was enthralled by freerice.com last night. I also learned the term “ovine”, which from here on I will probably rarely, if ever, use again.
May 21, 2008 at 12:11 pm
I love that site! I always hit a wall though. Do you look up words as you go to keep dishing out rice and getting more archaic words, or do you play from your current vocabulary until you hit the wall? I’m a purist who looks up things after I’ve answered. Fun stuff.
May 22, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Serendipitous journalizing.
May 22, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Deas: I just fire up the site and go crazy, and when I see a term that knocks my socks off I try to commit it to my “obscure terms that I feel compelled to use as conversational pieces” long-term memory.
Claytonian: Some might even call it ‘fortuitous’.
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