I thought up a new word today.
Esologosuprematarian (n): A person who uses obscure words solely to make themselves feel better than other people.
Ex: “I am a sesquipedalian esologosuprematarian… but I repeat myself! Ha ha! Do you see? Because all esologosuprematarians are by default sesquipedalian! Ha ha! It’s a joke based on the logic of words!” said the esologosuprematarian to the amusement of absolutely no one.
Enjoy.
i prefer onomatopoetika(ns)? i.e people who use word-sounds; Zoom – Zap – Pew-Pew-Pew – to describe things.
His eyes, HIS EYES!!
They will haunt my dreams….
huh? big words, too many big words.
BC, go get a girlfriend and go have some sex.
In my humble opinion…… the perfect illustration would have been Dennis Miller. He’s pretty egotistical and I think he says the things he says just to sound smart.
A nicely done and long overdue trashing of William F. Buckley!
and now (@Melanie) tosses in Dennis Miller…what a gratifying start to my day!!
Surely there must be words that are obscure but not long, ruling out your suggestion of tautology?
The word I was looking for:
aenos: n. – use of erudite words or allusions to appeal to the learned
http://books.google.com/books?id=PUYOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA358&lpg=PA358&dq=aenos
On another note, thanks for the reference to Bill Buckley.
I’m not from the US, you see, and wouldn’t have come across his name otherwise. I checked out his Wikipedia entry, and learned a number of interesting things, like his relation to McCarthyism and Ayn Rand, two of my current pet subjects.
Your URL is misspelled. You might want to add “esologosuprematarian” and redirect from sologosuprematarian”, since this one is already published.
@Sark
You mean the word that when they teach it to you in grade school they make you read “Rikki Tikki Tavi?”
Which by the way, was my sole inspiration for the Loavreng as I believe I told you the other day.
@Jessica
Yeah, they are a little frosty aren’t they?
I’ve always thought there was something odd about the shape of his jaw… but eh. I guess it’s better than having a giant cartoon face.
@linlah
That was the joke, and an example of why I am a douchebag.
@Eric
I think it’s too late for that now. It would just be way too awkward.
@Melanie
Yeah, I think you’re right. I grabbed the wiki picture of Bill Buckley because I couldn’t really think of anyone else off the top of my head who was famous for using big words.
@Eileen
I don’t really hate Bill Buckley, and I actually think the conservative party could use more people like him. Yes, he did have a lot of opinions I very very very very very very very strongly disagreed with, but at least he was a person with whom one could have a debate. Also, I’ve seen a number of his videos wherein I could tell he was actually internalizing information.
Like I said, I disagreed with him on a number of things (his stance on race, and AIDS being chief among them) but I have NEVER seen Bill Kristol, Jonah Goldberg, or Rush Limbaugh internalize an idea. When I watch the pundits on cable news I feel like I’m watching a pack of retarded kids who are using tape recorders to speak to one another. Consequently, nothing really logically follows anything else and actual conversation breaks down.
Then again, I really think the same argument holds true of liberals.
Politics these days is just retarded people trying to shout their talking points over the other group of retarded people.
@Icyclectic
Yes, you are correct. My knowledge of Greek and Latin is lamentably poor. I had to make due with such tools I have, which given the subject I suppose is a joke in and of itself.
I was so disappointed when I found out Ayn Rand was batshit insane. I mean, it’s okay to love cock. Lots of women love cock, but her whole “arrangement” with Nathaniel Bradley had me screaming “DANGER! SEX CULT! DANGER! SEX CULT! DANGER! SEX CULT!” over and over in my head again.
I mean, I’m about 99% sure she was raped as a child (I can’t really think of any other reason for her to glorify rape as the only proper form of sex in her books) but still… just keep your vagina in your pants.
@Douglas
Damn it. You’re right. I had made it another word, and decided to change it, and it looks like I screwed the pooch on changing it.
Douglas, I do heartily ask your forgiveness… but I think I’m just going to leave it and pretend I don’t know any better. Otherwise, it’s going to take a good fifteen minutes I’d rather spend procrastinating.
Did you notice that Neil deGrasse Tyson recently appeared on The Colbert Report? He’s awesome…….