Slipping Latin expressions into an otherwise English sentence sounds suitably self-congratulatory. Some modernist writers used to do this ad nauseum.

this reminds me of the episode of Friends when Joey uses a thesaurus..

preambulator means a baby cart

somnambulating means sleepwalking

from the latin verb ambulare, to walk

About two months ago I stumbled across the words cathecting and decathecting (the opposite of cathecting). I wouldn't use them in public, but I already use them in my head a fair amount.

*supplicant
(meaning: bum-- how's that for political-correctness?)

here are a few examples of words i like to use to make me seem more intelligent than i am:
instead of stupid say unsmart
instead of pussy,twat,or some other horribly outdated phrase say birthin' hole
instead of asshole say fecalmattermachine(makes me think of kraftwerk for some reason)
instead of dwarf,little person, or midget say asscarembala
instead of refering to your dick in one of more usual slang terms say creamy white's vitamin E shack

there are many more terms like these in my mind but i don't want to drop too much science on you guys all at once

A fitting one for denizens of the internet....

philopolemic

'one who is fond of the art or practice of disputation or controversy'

does anyone have any opinions on religion or P2P that they would like to share?......

hypostatization:


Reification, the construal of a conceptual entity as a real existent.

Indispensable when discussing the ideological obfuscations of late capitalism around the campfire.

Hegemony

The predominance of one social class over others. This represents not only political and economic control, but also the ability of the dominant class to project its own way of seeing the world so that those who are subordinated by it accept it as 'common sense' and 'natural'.

Indispensable when discussing the ideological obfuscations of late capitalism around the campfire.

retopulate: to bump

Oh stop grandiloquizing, all of you.

this is the best thing ever.

acrocephalic - Having a pointy head

alectromantia - A process in which a rooster is asked a question, and then
a single grain is placed on each letter of the alphabet and the order of his
eating determined the answer

droud - An oafish woman

emunction - The act of removing obstructions from or cleaning bodily
passages (such as picking ones nose)

podoscaph - A boat propelled by bicycle treadles

vaticide - The murder of a prophet

just picked these out at random. Some fine ones here. (And some not particulary obscure ones - agoraphobia isn't the world's most unknown word, is it?)

SpankMarvin wrote:Slipping Latin expressions into an otherwise English sentence sounds suitably self-congratulatory. Some modernist writers used to do this ad nauseum.

The quid pro quo for this should be a punch in the nuts.

-A