Posted by: Dr. Strangelove September 15, 2005
See you at NY Rally...Nepe
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In an attempt to write forcefully and effectively, people are often tempted to display their vocabularies to impress rather than express. I guess Nepe likes to use "big words" to try to impress his readers. Inevitably, this effort to impress the reader often leads to a problem with diction. "...enough with Maoists' abuse of legitimate political cause to promote anachronistic ideology and violence." Whateva that means. It's "polysyllabic meaninglessness." Most persuasive words in English are very simple:you, now, guarantee, results, money, easy, love, health, save, free, discovery, and proven, according to Robin White, a Yale scholar. I found this quote by Nancy Sommers very befitting, "I was the kind of student who loved words, words out of context, words that swirled around inside my mouth, words like exacerbate, undulating, lugubrious, and zeugma...I would try to write zeugmas whenever I could, exacerbating, my already lugubrious prose."
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