We should split this article into two: one for the unnecessary use of long, 'sophisticated'-sounding, technical-sounding and/or pretentious words where a more common one is just as good (precise) if not better (such as the use of 'loquaciousness' in-article) and one for using ~~precise~~accurate
terms where most people would be less ~~precise~~accurate.
First we need to find all the references and edit them
Saw this entry under Film-Live Action (important bit in bold):
- Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. One of the many reasons why the script was so awful is that it appears when writing Hermione's lines, they wrote them out normally before getting out a thesaurus and changing all the words to make her sound smart. Examples include "Viktor's more of a physical being. I mean, he's not particularly loquacious"; "Again obvious though potentially problematic". This isn't present in the other films though.
Removed the bold part due to it seeming a tad too subjective for a main page (even bringing up a judgement of quality, which seems to be generally frowned in in main pages).
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"Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness" seem to indicate an inappropriate or exaggerated or unneeded use of terminology occurring in fiction writing. The title of the scientific paper pictured really does have to use exactly those words in order to be correct, terms like 'fruit fly' and 'browning' and 'apple' are ambiguous and could mean any number of different specific species/phenomena. If "Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness" refers to *any* use of technical terminology whatsoever, then there's no problem. But if it refers strictly to an unneeded or inappropriate use of terminology when simpler terms would suffice, then the image really is inappropriate. Which is it?
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I agree with the above. The image illustrates the use of technical terminology (mainly taxonomic names), not of gratuitously big words.
Conversely, Polish autumn is either absolutely ugly (if it's wet), or one of the most gorgeous sights on this Lord's good red-golden earth
"Scarlet emeralds" mentioned in The Eye Of Argon actually exist. They are more often called "red beryls", though. This makes the example an obscure, but correct use of words (maybe accidentally, but correct). Is there any better example of incorrect use?
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How exactly is this distinguished from Perfectly Cromulent Word?
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That trope is about a character inserting a (usually made up) word into a sentense.
This trope is about a character who habitually talks in an over-eloquent way, with actual words.
So, they don't really have anything in common.
Edit, edit, edit, edit the wiki
Is it okay if I create a Self-Demonstrating version of this?
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I actually love this trope; I think it's nice that some books use more diverse vocabularly because you learn new words. I'm not much of a "Intellectual" but I do like learning new stuff when I read and Its boring just hearing the same adjective and verbs constantly reused.
But that's just my personal opinion.
Sorcerer in training
"The Postmodernist Generator lets you generate random texts using complex but utterly meaningless vocabulary."
The link in that entry kicks up 500 and 404 errors. A Google search uncovers nothing at all. The closest to the given name is a site with a function that randomly generates articles painfully/hilariously fitting this trope. (http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/)
So far, I haven't found a site that matches the description initially given in the entry. Should the broken link be removed, and the wording changed to past tense? Or leave as is?
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
What happened to the Live Action TV folder? Did it get accidentally deleted or something?
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It appears the person who deleted the Music folder also removed several others. Restoration in progress.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Weird, I seem to remember there being a Music folder for this trope. Whatever happened to it?
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Removed without an edit reason in July. Probably accidental. Restored.
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Can I recommend changing this trope's name to something shorter and easier to remember? There's no way anybody can possibly remember such a long and complicated name when wanting to reference this trope while editing articles. Just saying.
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That's funny, i just searched for this page specifically and only got the "dalian" bit wrong (swapped the L for an R, been mispronouncing it me has)
BigWords both redirects to the page and gets reparsed to the trope name, I believe. Lemmie try typing out BigWords as a wiki word: Big Words. How'd it go?
I would imagine most potholes here would be entered as BigWords in the code itself. If the search doesn't include that, you could always enter "sesq" into it; I can't imagine many other words that begin with "sesq".
EDIT: Oh, well it looks like it didn't change the hyperlink text after all. Or maybe it just does that on the wiki page.
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Heh heh. I used this exact phrase in class once, and a classmate freaked out in terror. I think there's a phobia for it. XD
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There is: hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, the fear of long words!
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Gilligan's Island:
Professor - I don't like the look of those nimbus-cumuli. Gilligan - Yeah, and those clouds are real pretty, too.
billie in pinky and the brain talking big words while huggin brain, she smarter than him!!!!
There are a lot of zero context examples on this page.