Big list of beautiful but mostly useless words

[Farrah Nuff]

I think words are interesting and I found this article about them to be so too!

Have a look - https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/beautiful-useless-obscure-words

 

[Pink Biz]

Oooh, some really good ones. Thanks for the link.

 

[JustBonee]

Interesting, but life is moving on for me so I prefer 'short' words..

 

[CinnamonSugar]

What fun!!

 

[Magna-Carta]

There's no "Antidisestablishmentarianism" in the list. How could we all forget that?

 

[Michael Z]

Here’s one sentence using several of these:
My long-time and often times long-winded pal was actually a backfriend, but as a shot-clog was quite useful at the spendy restaurants during our jentacular outings.

 

[Nemo2]

Filipendulous.......surely the definition should be "A large breasted woman living in Manila"?

 

[Gardenlover]

An old boss used to use these types of words all the time when he spoke. I guess he was better educated or something.

 

[-Oy-]

The interrogatory which inaugurated this particular interlocution presupposes the existence of an erudite but languorous subclass of participants who are prepared to eschew the customary virtues of transparency and comprehensibility by abandoning the apothegmatic and the laconic and choosing instead a wilfully perverse course of superfluous prolixity, unwarranted circumlocution (not to mention the intrusive parenthetical intercalation of tangential ephemera) and pernicious obfuscation in order to achieve a result whereby the transmission of semantic content is fatally subordinated to an egregious, vulgar, literary braggadocio in which the superficial and ephemeral grandiloquence of an unfettered and intemperate vocabulary coruscates inconsequentially to the detriment of interpersonal communication, pedagogy or empathetic rapprochement.

 

[JaniceM]

The interrogatory which inaugurated this particular interlocution presupposes the existence of an erudite but languorous subclass of participants who are prepared to eschew the customary virtues of transparency and comprehensibility by abandoning the apothegmatic and the laconic and choosing instead a wilfully perverse course of superfluous prolixity, unwarranted circumlocution (not to mention the intrusive parenthetical intercalation of tangential ephemera) and pernicious obfuscation in order to achieve a result whereby the transmission of semantic content is fatally subordinated to an egregious, vulgar, literary braggadocio in which the superficial and ephemeral grandiloquence of an unfettered and intemperate vocabulary coruscates inconsequentially to the detriment of interpersonal communication, pedagogy or empathetic rapprochement.

"Yes, of course."

 

[Nemo2]

The interrogatory which inaugurated this particular interlocution presupposes the existence of an erudite but languorous subclass of participants who are prepared to eschew the customary virtues of transparency and comprehensibility by abandoning the apothegmatic and the laconic and choosing instead a wilfully perverse course of superfluous prolixity, unwarranted circumlocution (not to mention the intrusive parenthetical intercalation of tangential ephemera) and pernicious obfuscation in order to achieve a result whereby the transmission of semantic content is fatally subordinated to an egregious, vulgar, literary braggadocio in which the superficial and ephemeral grandiloquence of an unfettered and intemperate vocabulary coruscates inconsequentially to the detriment of interpersonal communication, pedagogy or empathetic rapprochement.

Brilliant!!!!!!

 

[Paco Dennis]

 

[Gardenlover]

The interrogatory which inaugurated this particular interlocution presupposes the existence of an erudite but languorous subclass of participants who are prepared to eschew the customary virtues of transparency and comprehensibility by abandoning the apothegmatic and the laconic and choosing instead a wilfully perverse course of superfluous prolixity, unwarranted circumlocution (not to mention the intrusive parenthetical intercalation of tangential ephemera) and pernicious obfuscation in order to achieve a result whereby the transmission of semantic content is fatally subordinated to an egregious, vulgar, literary braggadocio in which the superficial and ephemeral grandiloquence of an unfettered and intemperate vocabulary coruscates inconsequentially to the detriment of interpersonal communication, pedagogy or empathetic rapprochement.

Is that you boss?

 

[caroln]

The interrogatory which inaugurated this particular interlocution presupposes the existence of an erudite but languorous subclass of participants who are prepared to eschew the customary virtues of transparency and comprehensibility by abandoning the apothegmatic and the laconic and choosing instead a wilfully perverse course of superfluous prolixity, unwarranted circumlocution (not to mention the intrusive parenthetical intercalation of tangential ephemera) and pernicious obfuscation in order to achieve a result whereby the transmission of semantic content is fatally subordinated to an egregious, vulgar, literary braggadocio in which the superficial and ephemeral grandiloquence of an unfettered and intemperate vocabulary coruscates inconsequentially to the detriment of interpersonal communication, pedagogy or empathetic rapprochement.

In layman's terms, yes, but it's actually much more complicated than that.

 

[JaniceM]

In layman's terms, yes, but it's actually much more complicated than that.

Fer suure.