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ORIGINAL: rustysi
sesquipedalian words mean.
Cute, using a long word meaning, 'given to or characterized by the use of long words', to describe long words. Are we being pedantic?[:D]
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warspite1ORIGINAL: Orm
And by looking up a certain word I fount this sentence...
The most common use of "antidisestablishmentarianism" is as an example of a sesquipedalian word.
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Time for another Blackadder line [:)]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGHr-_bIdQ8
[:D]ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn
A reseacher was in the local library researching the American Civil War. Reading Northern reports taken from Rebel POWs, he was trying to locate Aug Creek.
Finally he asked a local, who told him how to get to Hog Creek.
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
ORIGINAL: rustysi
sesquipedalian words mean.
Cute, using a long word meaning, 'given to or characterized by the use of long words', to describe long words. Are we being pedantic?[:D]
No, antisesquipedantic, which involves hopping around on one foot, trying to kick yourself in the butt with the other while spouting nonsense. Well played warspite1.
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You asked for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDPqB9i1ScY
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
I just read this and it cracked me up. If you don’t know anything about William Howard Taft just do a google image search and you’ll understand. This is from Barbara Tuchman’s “The Proud Tower”.
Anxious to end the war [Spanish/Filipino/American War] and placate the “new-caught sullen peoples” and govern creditably, the Administration sent various committees to investigate the atrocities [committed by US troops], to find out what the Filipinos really wanted – short of self-government, which they said they wanted – and to report on what form of civil government to give them. In April, 1900, the shy, kindly, three-hundred-pound Judge William Howard Taft was sent out to set up a civil government, armed with a charter drawn up by the new Secretary of War, Elihu Root, which granted the Filipinos a liberal degree of internal autonomy. Since neither they nor the Americans were ready to give up fighting, the attempt was premature, but Taft stayed on, determined to govern in the interest of “the little brown brother” as soon as he was given a chance. When friends at home, concerned for his welfare, sent anxious queries about his health, he cabled Elihu Root that he had been out horseback riding and was feeling fine. “How is the horse feeling?” Root cabled back.
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ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
I just read this and it cracked me up. If you don’t know anything about William Howard Taft just do a google image search and you’ll understand. This is from Barbara Tuchman’s “The Proud Tower”.
Anxious to end the war [Spanish/Filipino/American War] and placate the “new-caught sullen peoples” and govern creditably, the Administration sent various committees to investigate the atrocities [committed by US troops], to find out what the Filipinos really wanted – short of self-government, which they said they wanted – and to report on what form of civil government to give them. In April, 1900, the shy, kindly, three-hundred-pound Judge William Howard Taft was sent out to set up a civil government, armed with a charter drawn up by the new Secretary of War, Elihu Root, which granted the Filipinos a liberal degree of internal autonomy. Since neither they nor the Americans were ready to give up fighting, the attempt was premature, but Taft stayed on, determined to govern in the interest of “the little brown brother” as soon as he was given a chance. When friends at home, concerned for his welfare, sent anxious queries about his health, he cabled Elihu Root that he had been out horseback riding and was feeling fine. “How is the horse feeling?” Root cabled back.
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was he sure it was a horse
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
Thank you very much, I told a friend about that passage and just now told him what you posted and he cracked up.
ORIGINAL: Orm
Clearly several of you did succeed. [:)]ORIGINAL: warspite1
warspite1ORIGINAL: rustysi
Cute, using a long word meaning, 'given to or characterized by the use of long words', to describe long words. Are we being pedantic?[:D]
No, we are trying to be funny.....
...but clearly not succeeding [;)]
