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#15098 01/09/01 11:05 AM
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What's the word for people who like to use long words? Thanks!


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Welcome to the board, blackthorn.

How about sesquepedalianophiles?




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a verbose prig ??


#15101 01/09/01 03:58 PM
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Logorrheans?


#15102 01/09/01 04:10 PM
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one of the senses of sesquipedalian is "given to the use of long words"; wouldn't that suffice?


#15103 01/09/01 04:43 PM
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Circumlocution (talking around the issue) is a related affliction.

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#15104 01/09/01 06:46 PM
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...wouldn't that suffice?

There goes tsuwm wielding Ockham's Razor again ['admiring glance' emoticon]


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AnnaS remarked admiringly There goes tsuwm wielding Ockham's Razor again

Never mind that the entire village of Ockham will now be hopelessly hirsute. Sorry, I couldn't resist. I'm much more used to seeing Occam - Ockham makes me think of a stereotypical English village.


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That's it! Thanks for jogging the memory to you and rhubarbcommando.


#15107 01/10/01 04:50 AM
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Occam is another spelling of Ockham. It's where William Occam, first wielder of the razor, came from.

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