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Advice to authors and public speakers

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:45 pm
by Carolynn
In promulgating your esoteric cogitations, or articulating your superficial sentimentalities and amicable, philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communications possess a clarified conciseness, a compact comprehensibility, coalescent consistency, and a concatenated cogency. Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectations.

Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rhodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity. Shun double-entendres, prurient jocosity, and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent.

In other words, talk plainly, briefly, naturally, sensibly, truthfully, purely. Keep from slang; don't put on airs; say what you mean; mean what you
say.

And DON'T USE BIG WORDS!

-Anon-

Advice

Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:32 pm
by Ann Stef
Good for politicians also

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 10:34 am
by Kyra
Carolynn,
You may not believe it, but that has been circulating since at least 1982! I used to have a copy of it when I was in high school, but lost it many years back. A kid I knew back then gave it as an informal speech in class one day and we were all mesmerized. I don't believe he was the original author, but I think it's neat to still see it being passed around.

And it's sooooooo true! 8)
Hugs,
Kyra

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 7:14 pm
by Virginia
Then I guess it is ok to say:
@#$% !#$@% ^&*(^% #$%@$%^&$# @#$%^ AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON!!!!

Virginia :lol:

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 7:40 pm
by SilverLady(SO)
Tsk, tsk, tsk!!! Don't you know you're never supposed to end your sentence with a preposition?!? [-X


- SL

Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 12:10 am
by Carolynn
LOL. Look at the date of my original post!!! Some people are just slow readers? ..rofl.. ..^..

Love, Carolynn

Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:12 pm
by Stephanie H
Just goes to show that important works do take a while to be distributed and accepted, even in the electronic age.
Good writing will always stay in vogue and have relevance.

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 12:05 pm
by Kyra
Oommff! I didn't even look at the date! LOL!

Slow, Kyra....really slow.....

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 10:02 pm
by SilverLady(SO)
Ah, but we love you anyway, Kyra dear!!

*Hugs*

- SL

Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 2:04 pm
by Roberta-Llyan
To paraphrase Robert Duvall on the movie TRUE GRIT:


"Them's mighty big words for just a CDer from the midwest, Carolynn!"

BUT FUNNY!!! :lol:

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 11:14 am
by Carolynn
Smile when you say that pilgrim!!!! :lol: :lol:

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 2:00 pm
by Roberta-Llyan
..Now where have I heard that line before? HAHAHAHA


"Just call it professional courtesy, ma'am!"

Re: Advice to authors and public speakers

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:39 am
by Paulette
Very much in the style of A.J. Leibling's underworld characters' speech.

Re: Advice to authors and public speakers

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:15 pm
by Anna
Hey, I got an excuse, I just joined...

Anywho, your polysyllabic profundity was sensationalism personified!!!

Re: Advice to authors and public speakers

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 4:03 am
by Paula G
Or to put it another way KISS
Keep
It
Simple
Stupid!