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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