Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1881 — Don’t Use Big:Words. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Use Big:Words.

In promulgating your esoteric cogitations, or articulating superficial "sentimentalities and philosophical or psycological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversation possess a clarified conciseness, compacted comprehensibleness, coaiescent consistency, and a concatenated cogency. Eschew all conglomerations of_ flatulent garrulty, jejune babblement'and asinine affectations. Let your extemporaneous descant lugs and unpremeditated exp tiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rhodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all poly-' syllabic profundity,pompous prolixity, « p6ittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity,and vaniloquent rapidity. Shun double-entendres, prurient jocosity,and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent In other words, talk plainly, naturally, sensibly, truthfully and purely, and don’t use big words.