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>>implies that you went on and on and on about it. << Unpleasantness aside, to my mind the "going on and on" is the defining characteristic for labeling something diarrhea. But that's just me! 
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Or, as Anthony Burgess said, in The Earthly Powers, verborrhea.
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verborrhea
Doesn't bother me, but some abhor mixing Latin and Greek suchwise.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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The prescriptivist side of my Janus-like brain totally agrees with zmjezhd on the issue of mixing Latin stems and roots with Greek stems and roots to produce new words. When in the process of producing one, I (tend to) avoid that, in the same way that I cook no Greco-Italian dishes.
The descriptivist side of the selfsame brain says that almost any word used by Anthony Burgess is worthy of consideration because, whatever else one may think of his writing, he had a masterful command of English and may be emulated (in his writing, if nothing else) to one's benefit.
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almost any word used by Anthony Burgess is worthy of consideration
Yep, that veck govoreet English quite horrorshow.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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the issue of mixing Latin stems and roots with Greek stems and roots to produce new words.
Probably why you don't watch television.
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the issue of mixing Latin stems and roots with Greek stems and roots to produce new words.
Probably why you don't watch television.
Whoa, I was right! Good one, Faldage! With bolding added:
tele-
comb. form meaning "far, far off," from Gk. tele-...
vision
c.1290, "something seen in the imagination or in the supernatural," from Anglo-Fr. visioun, O.Fr. vision, from L. visionem (nom. visio)...
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> Jesus Christ
I don't understand this response.
I think it was a signature
Oy! Where's God when you need him? 
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Where's God when you need him?
In the passenger seat, right next to Father Daniel Webster.
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Oy! Where's God when you need him?
I prefer it when you ignore me.
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