Fancy Words
Don’t we adore fancy words? Don’t we love to use them?
Still, it is annoying when some choose to abuse them.
When “geddouddahere” would do to tell pests when to go,
they use “begone!” to banish them in words more rococo.
Their need to parlay simple words, I fear I find most gruesome.
A tasty meal’s not good enough. They see repasts most toothsome.
While we argue, they asservate, assiduously stating
things that all of the rest of us are fine with just debating.
They see themselves as bon vivants, most clever and most charming,
They complicate the simplest words at rates we find disarming.
A lady we call beautiful, gorgeous, lovely, cool,
they find pulchritudinous. Where did they go to school?
“Piquant” they use religiously, though most of us denounce it.
Yes, we agree it’s pretty, but we just can’t pronounce it.
Slow music is andante, dark closets are aphotic.
As they rave on, each alloquy tends to get hypnotic.
What the rest of us get rid of, they alleviate.
They do not use contractions. They don’t abbreviate.
They’re intent on gamboling while we’re just being silly.
They see the landscape undulating. We just find it hilly.
Forsooth, they have no wherewithal to get where they must go?
We’re all willing to chip in. We hope they don’t go slow!
They are extremely irritating, though they do not know it.
It’s not easy dealing with a friend who is a poet!!!
For My Vivid Blog: Words
Must confess that I wrote this poem 7 years ago, but it seemed appropriate, so….
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Thanks for sharing these an amazing words 😀 Anita
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And then there are words we hate: creamy. Creamy is awful. Cheerful feels like nails on a chalkboard.
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Ha, I like that~! Great poem~! I must say that most words I use are in my vocabulary but my terrible spelling is an encumbrance and I sometimes have to look the word up anyway, just to see how to spell it.
However two things are the norm from when I was in high-school, I often did look through the dictionary for words that would make my reports look more impressive. This added to something I learned from my father who was a “master wordsmith”, (there I used that one, but could have used “linguist” instead).
It is sort of part of my makeup because I often like the play on words, though my equivocation back in the ARPANET era mostly went unperceived because it would have taken thumbing through a paper-bound dictionary and even my teachers did not bother with that.
However I do not see any obmutescere, though sometimes a bit of obsolescence coming from your writing~!
With affection, SAM
now geddouddahere~!~!~!
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Now obmutescere is just showing off.
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To be fair, I am always hoping to find another adjective to avoid reusing ones I used in previous paragraphs. While working as a writer at Doubleday, we used to collect lists of adjectives and pin them to our cork boards, especially those related to the types of books we promoted. I had two book clubs that were “mine”: American Garden Guild and the Romance Library. It can be surprisingly hard to find ONE MORE WAY to describe “whirlwind romance.” Or a fast-growing plant.
I think the occasional use of an obscure word or three is fine, but one needn’t go berserk either. A nice, tidy balance. Either that, or I try the opposite: not using ANY adjective at all and hoping the story says it all without them. It’s harder than it sounds.
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You know where they went to school – in Great Britain.
P.S. Slow music IS Andante, and fast is Allegro, but only if you are conversing about classical music.
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Oh, LLOLL! You give yourself away as one of we all lampooned by you yourself, with your absolutely brilliant rhymes. Oh, my God ~ I have to go pee now… 😊😂🤣😆🤧
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