Advice to authors and public speakers

Carolynn · Post by **Carolynn** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:45 pm

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-

Ann Stef · Post by **Ann Stef** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:32 pm

Good for politicians also

Kyra · Post by **Kyra** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 10:34 am

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!

Hugs,
Kyra

Virginia · Post by **Virginia** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 7:14 pm

Then I guess it is ok to say:
@#$% !#$@% ^&*(^% #$%@$%^&$# @#$%^ AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON!!!!

Virginia

SilverLady(SO) · Post by **SilverLady(SO)** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 7:40 pm

Tsk, tsk, tsk!!! Don't you know you're never supposed to end your sentence with a preposition?!?

- SL

Carolynn · Post by **Carolynn** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 12:10 am

LOL. Look at the date of my original post!!! Some people are just slow readers?

Love, Carolynn

Stephanie H · Post by **Stephanie H** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:12 pm

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.

Kyra · Post by **Kyra** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 12:05 pm

Oommff! I didn't even look at the date! LOL!

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

SilverLady(SO) · Post by **SilverLady(SO)** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 10:02 pm

Ah, but we love you anyway, Kyra dear!!

*Hugs*

- SL

Roberta-Llyan · Post by **Roberta-Llyan** » Mon May 26, 2008 2:04 pm

To paraphrase Robert Duvall on the movie TRUE GRIT:

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

BUT FUNNY!!!

Carolynn · Post by **Carolynn** » Wed May 28, 2008 11:14 am

Smile when you say that pilgrim!!!!

Roberta-Llyan · Post by **Roberta-Llyan** » Wed May 28, 2008 2:00 pm

..Now where have I heard that line before? HAHAHAHA

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

Paulette · Post by **Paulette** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:39 am

Very much in the style of A.J. Leibling's underworld characters' speech.

Anna · Post by **Anna** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:15 pm

Hey, I got an excuse, I just joined...

Anywho, your polysyllabic profundity was sensationalism personified!!!

Paula G · Post by **Paula G** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 4:03 am

Or to put it another way KISS
Keep
It
Simple
Stupid!

Crossdressers-Haven.com

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