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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