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Cush

Cush

Veteran
Location
North Cumbria but still a Geordie
This post is very interesting but I do not think my tutors at Newcastle university will be very impressed if I use some of the verbal garbage that has been voluminously expressed here. So in my essays; I will return to what I know K(eep) I(t) S(imple)
 
EltonFrog

EltonFrog

Legendary Member
IanDuke said:
Of course, you can ignore any advice offered that starts with 'Hears' when he means 'Here's' :whistle:
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Bugger!
 
welsh dragon

welsh dragon

Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
CarlP said:
No, you don't have you don't have to spell it correctly, you just need to check and double check every fecking word you type on a feckin Pad of I.
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Excellent vocabulary by the way :laugh: . This thread is actually in danger of becoming funny. Be careful people.
 
Globalti

Globalti

Legendary Member
My job consists of communicating with people for whom English is not always the first language so I have an interest in keeping it short, simple and absolutely clear. I have two colleagues who are pompous and who use big words, quite often incorrectly. I once saw an email one of them had written to an agent and saw that the agent had been forced to use a dictionary and translate some of the words, which is unforgivable, in my opinion.

I served on jury duty last summer and was hugely impressed with the clarity and simplicity of the language used by the judge; nobody was ever in any doubt as to his meaning and he never had to repeat or clarify.

To improve your vocabulary you could do worse than to listen to BBC Radio 4. The Today programme has some heavy stuff but PM is lighter and in between there are some fascinating programmes with excellent, clear presentation. If I'm ever laid up in hospital for a long period of time I shall listen to R4 all day and relish the entertainment.
 
Over The Hill

Over The Hill

Guru
Location
Ridden off into the sunset
You do not need to resort to classic literature if you don't want to. You could get as much by reading Stephen Fry's blog or watching University Challenge. Aim for something a bit intelligent in a subject or area you like.
Also better to pick up a few words and really learn them in context rather than lots of babble that it is easy to get lost in.

Avoid Radio 1, Big Brother or Hollyoaks unless you want reassurance that you are not as bad as you think you are.
 
Speicher

Speicher

Vice Admiral
Moderator
Location
Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
CarlP said:
Here is my advice...

In promulgating your esoteric cogitation's or articulating your superficial and sentimentalities and amicable philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous panderosity.

Let your conversational communications possess a clarified conciseness, a compact comprehensibiliness coalescent consistency and a concatenated cogency. Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectations. Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiation's have intelligibility and veracious vivacity without rodomontade or thrasonical bombast.

Sedulously avoid all polysyllable profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vivacity, ventriloquial verbosity and magniloquent rapidity. Shun double entendres, previnient jacosity and pestifereous profanity, observant or apparent.

In other words, talk plainly, briefly, naturally, sensibly,truthfully, purely, keep from slang, don't put on airs, say what you mean, mean what you say and DON'T USE BIG WORDS.
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Yes, Minister.
 
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