Twisted Panglossia
Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters
mertz at gnosis.cx
Sat Jun 7 13:58:59 EDT 2003
|David> I tend towards polysyllabic--sometimes even
|David> polyglottal--neologistic agglutinations.
Dave Cole <djc at object-craft.com.au> wrote previously:
|A more accurate word might be "sesquipedalia". :-)
I think you need one more letter: sesquipedalian.
But I think that lovely word slightly misses the part about neologistic
agglutination. The words aren't just long, they're novel in
predicatable ways too.
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