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by Dr. Saber S. Poder

CRISPY:  After a hard week at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, therapists, upon draining a flagon or two in the Fowler Lounge, have been know to fantasize special hells for polysyllabificationizers.

Instead of crisp, they say crispy.  Instead of calm, they say calmness; instead of meaning, meaningfulness; instead of origin, origination; instead of zeal, zealousness; instead of potential, potentiality.

O, the uncomfortableness!  These extended words sound like the faked earnestness of psychobabble and make the speaker sound dishonest.  Simple language equals clearer language equals better language.

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