Is there a word which describes, or otherwise articulates, the propensity for using a longer, more obscure and, mostly unpronouncable, word in favour of another, equally descriptive, single word? The shorter word is, perhaps, better understood and usually half the length of its more pretentious alternate.
"Internationalization" requires two whole sentences to tell us what it could mean; "honorificabilitudinity" is explained as, "honorableness". Why do we need h20y any more than we need Floccinaucinihilpillification to describe something as worthless?

mclean