woah.. there !!

Jerry Hunt jhunt@geocities.com
Thu, 06 May 1999 16:31:36 -0500


In other words, people who use big words make you sick to your stomach?

Richard Brekne wrote:
> 
> >From Music since 1900, by Nicolas Slonimsky
> 
> Entry from the Dictionary of Terms
> 
> Sesquipedalian Macropolysyllabification. Quaquaversal lucubration about
> pervicacious torosity and diverticular prosiliency in diatonic
> formication and chromatic
> papulation, engendering carotic carmination and decubital nyctalopia,
> causing borborygmic susurration, teratological urticulation, macroptic
> dysmimia, bregmatic
> obstipation, crassamental quisquiliousness, hircinous olophonia and
> unflexanimous luxation, often produce volmerine cacumination and mitotic
> ramuliferousness leading to
> operculate onagerosity and testaceous favillousness, as well as faucal
> obsonation, parallelepipedal psellismus, pigritudinous mysophia,
> cimicidal conspurcation, mollitious
> deglutition and cephalotripsical stultitiousness, resulting despite
> Hesychastic omphaloskepsis, in epenetic opistography, boustrophedonic
> malacology, lampadodromic
> evagination, chartulary cadastration, merognostic heautotimerousness,
> favaginous moliminosity, fatiscent operosity, temulencious libration and
> otological oscininity,
> aggravated by tardigrade inturgescence, nucamentacious oliguria,
> emunctory sternutation, veneficial pediculation, fremescent dyskinesia,
> hispidinous cynanthropy,
> torminal opitulation, crapulous vellication, hippuric rhinodynia,
> dyspneic nimiety and favillous erethism, and culminating in
> opisthographic inconcinnity, scotophiliac
> lipothimia, banaustic rhinorrhea, dehiscent fasciculation, oncological
> vomiturition, nevoid paludality, exomphalic invultuation, mysophiliac
> excrementatiousness, flagitious
> dysphoria, lipogrammatic bradygraphy, orectic aprosexia, parataxic
> parorexia, lucubicidal nutation, permutational paranomasia, rhoncial
> fremitus, specular subsaltation,
> crapulous crepitation, ithyphallic acervation, procephalic dyscrasia,
> volitional volitation, piscine dermatology, proleptic pistology,
> verrucous alopecia, hendecaphonic
> combinatoriality, microaerophilic pandiculation and
> quasihemidemisemibreviate illation.
> 
> Try running that through your spell-checker!
> 
> The web is a wonderfull place
> 
> Richard Brekne



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