History Quotes / SesquipedalianLoquaciousness

-->-- ''Disney/TreasurePlanet''

->''"Which is to say, how it goes \\
Couched in terms no one knows \\
And as if the choice were slim \\
As if there's no synonym"''
-->-- '''Music/TheyMightBeGiants''', "Contrecoup"

->''"Scintillate, scintillate, diminutive stellar orb,\\
How inexplicable to me seems this stupendous problem of your existence\\
Elevated at such at an immeasurable distance,\\
In an apparently perpendicular direction from this terrestrial planet which we occupy\\
Resembling in thy dazzling and unapproachable effulgence,\\
A gem of purest carbon, set solitaire in a university of space"''
-->-- '''King Friday XIII''' [[note]] singing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"[[/note]], ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood''

->'''Protagonist''': Why do you use so many big words? Are you trying to make me feel stupid? \\
'''Kiser Jhaeri''': My utilization of complex locution is more a reflection of my own superincumbent mental acuity than an aspersion on your circumscribed lexicon. \\
'''Protagonist''': Maybe your grandiose vocabulary is a pathetic compensation for an insufficiency in the nether regions of your anatomy.
-->-- ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII''

-> '''Morty:''' What's wrong Rick? Is it the quantum-carberator or something?\\
'''Rick:''' Quantum-carberator? Jesus, Morty you can't just add a sci-fi word to a car word and hope it means something.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''

-> '''Sir Humphrey:''' "Prime Minister, I must protest in the strongest possible terms my profound opposition to a newly instituted practice which imposes severe and intolerable restrictions upon the ingress and egress of senior members of the hierarchy and which will, in all probability, should the current deplorable innovation be perpetuated, precipitate a constriction of the channels of communication, and culminate in a condition of organisational atrophy and administrative paralysis which will render effectively impossible the coherent and co-ordinated discharge of the functions of government within Her Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland!"\\
'''Jim Hacker:''' "You mean you've lost your key?"
-->-- ''[[Series/YesMinister Yes, Prime Minister]]''

->'''Sam''': My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas.\\
'''Max''': Me too!
-->-- ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxHitTheRoad''

->'''Brink:''' Come here, you phlegm-carapaced, slime-faced, mucus-brained, furry legged abductor of luminously intelligent but pulchritudinous Earth women!\\
''[Beat]''\\
'''Brink:''' Low, you idiot! Why are you standing there?\\
'''Low:''' I'm still trying to figure out what you said.
-->-- ''VideoGame/TheDig''

->''"Solicitations malefactors! I am endeavouring to misappropriate the formulary for the preparation of affordable comestibles! WHO WILL JOIN ME!?"'' (gets promptly beaten up by barroom thugs he was attempting to enlist)
-->-- '''Plankton''', ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''

->''"I'm sorry, Yuan-Ti have a high intelligence compared to most humanoids and in my case, it causes me to fall victim to an exponentially redundant vocabulary when I become nervous."''
-->-- '''Kin''', ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}} - Life Through Their Eyes''

->''"Would you '''shut up'''? No one '''talks''' like that! You don't sound smart, you sound like an '''idiot'''!"''
-->-- '''Takn''', to '''Kin''' a few strips later

->'''Massey:''' Sergeant Schlock... What an exciting opportunity you have provided. Never before... Not during law school, not during my six years in private practice, not even working as a Public Defender... Never have I been privileged to give a subordinate a "dressing down." Such a momentous occasion deserves a diatribe inspired by tragic Melpomene, or perhaps comedic Thalia, framed within the gifts of Polyhymnia's oratory and rhetoric. In that same Hellenic vein, I have mused upon the upbraiding to be administered, pondered the possible punishments... And found, to my lament this condign castigation must be meet for your particularly picayune patois.\\
({{Beat}})\\
'''Massey:''' ''[[SophisticatedAsHell You idiot]]''. We are going to get sued for your little shoot-'em-up, and it is going to ''BREAK us''. Now go to bed and dream of poverty. I've got work to do.\\
(Later)\\
'''Ebbirnoth:''' Well? How'd it go?\\
'''Schlock:''' Massey beat me up with ''big words''.
-->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''

->''"Here's your Saying A Word No One Else In The Room Knows Patch."''
-->-- '''Milly''' to fellow Fireside Girl Gretchen, ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''

->''"Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?"''
-->-- '''Ulysses Everett [=McGill=]''', ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou''

->'''Barney''': I'm telling you: Within three days...\\
'''Lily''': Oh, here he comes — switch to big words.\\
'''Barney''': Within a triad of solar periods, you'll recognize your dearth of compatibility with your paramour and conclude your association.\\
'''Robin''': My journey was transformative, and I reassert my commitment to both the aforementioned paramour, and the philosophies he espouses.\\
'''[[RomanticFalseLead Gael]]''': What are we talking of? Baseball?\\
'''Barney''': This is all going to return to masticate you in the gluteals. Support my hypothesis, Ted.\\
'''Ted''': [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy I'm just jubilant my former paramour is jubilant.]]
-->--''Series/HowIMetYourMother''

->''I've had enough of your snide insinuations. ([[TalkToTheFist punch]])''
-->--'''Shepard''', punching out a reporter, ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''
->''I've had enough of your disingenuous assertions! (punch)''
-->--'''Shepard''', punching out ''the same reporter'', ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''

->"And so I, Mojo Jojo, impart upon you the empowerment of [[TitleDrop Mo' Linguish]]! And with this power, you will no longer speak in brief, boring, abbreviated sentences, but instead will wow the crowds with your scintillating usage of an overabundance of nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, prepositions, and of course the [[WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock Conjunction Junctions which have a multiple of functions]]."
-->--'''Mojo Jojo''', ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' (episode "Mo' Linguish")

->'''[[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]]:''' [[Wrestling/{{TripleH}} Hunter]] has injured his prominent proboscis.[[note]]After being slingshotted in from the apron into the ring.[[/note]]\\
'''[[Wrestling/JerryLawler Jerry "The King" Lawler]]:''' Not only that, [[LaymansTerms but he hurt his nose]].
-->--''[[Wrestling/{{WWERaw}} WWF Monday Night Raw]],'' 1996

->'''Cloudchaser''': What exactly does this machine do? \\
'''[[LovableNerd Twilight Sparkle]]''': This is an anemometer, it measures your accelerative velocity and translates it into wing power, thus gauging your cumulative [=H2O=] anti-gravitational potential. (Claps hooves happily) Any other questions?\\
'''Flitter''': Yeah. (to [[HypercompetentSidekick Spike]]) What exactly does this machine do?\\
'''Spike''': [[LaymansTerms It tells you how fast you're flying and how strong your wings are.]]\\
'''Crowd''' (as Twilight gives an annoyed pout): Oh, oh yeah.
-->''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy Hurricane Fluttershy]]"

-->--''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie''

->'''Helen:''' Are you going to let me speak?\\
'''Yale:''' Of course dear, I'm just allowing you time to formulate your thoughts into a coherent structure.\\
'''Helen:''' [[LampshadeHanging Look at him. How could anyone put up with that?]]
-->-- ''[[Creator/ZapDramatic Ambition]]'', "The Marriage [[TyopOnTheCover Counsellor]]"[[note]][[WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} slowbeef and Diabetus]] agree.[[/note]]

->'''Captain Amelia''': [to Doppler] Let me make this as... monosyllabic as possible. I... don't much care for this crew you hired. They're... [to Arrow] how did I describe them, Arrow? I said something rather good this morning before coffee.\\
'''Mr. Arrow:''' 'A ludicrous parcel of driveling galoots,' ma'am.\\
'''Captain Amelia:''' [to Doppler] There you go, poetry.
-->--''Disney/TreasurePlanet''

->"[[BlatantLies My introduction will be sparse.]] [[HypocriticalHumor There will be no majestic prose blustering into the sails of a galleon as we embark upon this voyage together.]]"
-->--'''Rose Lalonde''', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''

'''Barbossa:''' I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request.\\
'''Elizabeth:''' ...\\
'''Barbossa:''' Means "no".

->''"Tuvok knows the term ''Déjà vu'' and yet goes out of his way to baffle Mister Kim by terming it ''paradoxical state dependant associated phenomenon''. [[ScrewYouElves What a twat.]]"''
-->-- '''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/voyager-season-three.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Favorite Son"

->''"Okey dokey, Mr. Vocabulary, what does '[[TakeThatScrappy pistol-whip]]' mean?'''
-->-- '''Crow T. Robot''', ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E22TeenageCrimeWave Mystery Science Theater 3000: Teenage Crime Wave]]''

->'''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}''': "[[VerbalTic Hey bub]], I'm a [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]]."\\
'''[[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Doctor Manhattan]]''': "At this point, I am obligated to inform you that I am a [[Creator/DCComics DC]] in order to differentiate between our companies. However, both companies exist in the same plane of reality, both contains the same number of particles. Structurally, there is no discernible differences."\\
[=*=]{{Beat}}*\\
'''Wolverine''': [[LampshadeHanging Wow, who wouldn't pay to see that for 3 hours]]?
-->-- ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC: Wolverine and Watchmen (Dr. Manhattan)''

->'''Michael Aspel:''' It has the whiff of verisimilitude.\\
'''Angus Deayton:''' I think he's saying it's true.
-->-- ''Series/WouldILieToYou''

->''”NASA-ese is no worse than Air Force-ese or State Department-ese; I suppose each has its place, although none of them seems a desirable substitute for English. Examine the sentence "Jones and Smith don't get along well" translated into: (1) Air Force-ese: 'It is considered that effective utilization of the potential allegiance between Jones and Smith is not being harmoniously exploited"; (2) Nasa-ese: "The interface between Jones and Smith has gone divergent"; (3) State Department-ese: "Messrs. Jones and Smith's abrasiveness vis-a-vis each other is counter productive to their bilateral relationship; each considers the other a ''bete noir''".”''

->''[[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraft]] is wonderfully distinct, and I love him to bits, but the more of his work you read, the more you determine that his main strength is in writing in the uniquely self-indulgent Lovecraft style. (What, ''another'' gambrel rooftop? The moon is, wait, let me guess - gibbous? The ruins -- Cyclopean? Their geometry -- hideous and inhuman? And then he goes and coins the word "hippocephalic" for no good reason.)''
-->-- [[http://www.mobygames.com/forums/dga,2/dgb,6/dgm,158071/#158074 Pseudo_Intellectual]]

->''"Write it in English, not in Pentagonese. It's not a launcher, rifle cartridge, [=7.62mm=]; it's a rifle. Call it a compass, not a direction-finding module. And if someone insists on being called [=AdcomphibsPac=], the Fact File should explain to those not gifting in garblespeak that he's talking about the administrative office of the communication services for amphibious forces in the Pacific."''
-->-- Preface to ''The United States Department of Defense Fact File''

->'''Piccolo''': Listen up, runt! Today we're going to commence your intense training under me.\\
'''Gohan''': But wait. Wouldn't that cause horrible muscle degeneration for somebody my age, crippling me for years to come?\\
'''Piccolo''': ... you're a wordy little bastard, aren't you?
-->-- ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''

->'''Lorenz:''' My monumental thoughts' manifestations - which are realized in the form of sentences - are not always acceptable for your limited mental capabilities. The continuity of our dialogue is therefore interrupted. Synthesis of arguments does not occur.\\
'''Neon:''' ...[[LaymansTerms say what]]? What am I doing here?\\
'''Lorenz:''' Good question. But far from being the most relevant one. A more interesting one would be what am '''I''' doing here [[LampshadeHanging sitting on chairmats, without a bed, table or food]]. Or - as you would notice - without a [[OminousMultipleScreens detailed TV program guide]] either.
-->-- '''Vektor''', TheAbridgedSeries of ''Film/TheMatrix''

->'''Teddy Bridgewater:''' Tsk tsk, my fine Houston fellows. There’s no need to lament the misfortune you suffered during that fateful selection process. Your failure to secure my services for your gridiron endeavors is in the past now, like so much "water under the bridge." Tee-hee. I hope you rascals enjoyed my oh-so-clever wordplay on that comment. Oh, but I do enjoy a hearty pun.\\
'''Jay Cutler:''' What the hell is he babbling about?\\
'''Colin Kaepernick:''' [[LampshadeHanging I think this Bridgewater idiot wants his “thing” to be, “Guy that talks like he’s gargling a thesaurus.”]]
-->-- ''Website/NFLQuarterbacksOnFacebook'', [[http://profootballmock.com/facebookchat/nfl-qbs-facebook-draftitude/ "Draftitude"]]

->"I need you to translate Finch's instructions on how to destroy the virus. Dude never met a five-syllable word he didn't like."
-->-- '''Shaw''', ''Series/PersonOfInterest''

->"Why, you brazenly avaricious, duplicitous, larcenous ursine!"
-->-- '''[[GeniusBruiser Bentley]]''', ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon''

->"You say 'tomato', I say ''Solanum lycopersicum''"
-->-- '''Lisa Loud''', ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse''

->"You used so many big words, the little words around them don't make sense either."
-->-- '''Shiina Mayuri''', ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate''

->'''Amethyst:''' Hey Peridot, what do you call this? ''(points to nose)''\\
'''Peridot:''' A Scent Sponge.\\
'''Amethyst:''' What's this? ''(points to eye)''\\
'''Peridot:''' Vision Sphere.\\
'''Amethyst:''' These? ''(wiggles fingers)''\\
'''Peridot:''' ''(annoyed)'' Touch Stumps.\\
'''Amethyst:''' This? ''(points to foot)''\\
'''Peridot:''' ''(through clenched teeth)'' Gravity Connectors.\\
'''Amethyst:''' This?! ''(points to rear)''\\
'''Peridot:''' [[SubvertedTrope THAT'S YOUR BUTT!]]
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', "Too Far"

->'''Dr. Robotnik''': Allow me to clarify: ''in a sequentially-ranked hierarchy, based on level of critical importance, the disparity between us is too vast to quantify.'' Agent Stone?\\
'''Agent Stone''': The Doctor thinks you're basic.
-->-- ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020''

->'''Na'ane:''' May the stars shine on you and your endeavours tonight, April-an... or what is it you sometimes say? "Break a foot"?
->'''April:''' Break a leg. But I like "may the stars shine on you" better, Na'ane.
-->-- ''VideoGame/DreamfallTheLongestJourney''

->''"I love the term 'orthogonal unit differentiation', because in pretentiousness and awkwardness, it's only second to '{{ludonarrative dissonance}}'."''
-->-- '''Matthias Worch''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEF4GVNzkUw&t=32m25s GDC 2014]]

->''"As much as I regret done, dear sir, it is unhappily incumbent upon me, as owner of these premises to regard your mana to the dereliction there, shall we say, 'inconvenient' to my purposes? So vastly inconvenient, one might add, that should the debit remain outstanding for as much as 24 hours more, I fear that legal machinery must perforce be set in motion a mess essentially and rumble face the in commodious prospect of taking up residence in the street."''
-->-- '''Lord Black''', ''Film/TheComedyOfTerrors''

'''Lemuel:''' Stop talking like some... ''ponce''. Or at least stop it with ''me''. You've been this way since you showed up.\\

-> ''"As much as I regret done, dear sir, it is unhappily incumbent upon me, as owner of these premises to regard your mana to the dereliction there, shall we say, 'inconvenient' to my purposes? So vastly inconvenient, one might add, that should the debit remain outstanding for as much as 24 hours more, I fear that legal machinery must perforce be set in motion a mess essentially and rumble face the in commodious prospect of taking up residence in the street."''

-->-- ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2019''

'''Agent Stone''': The Doctor says you're basic.

'''Dr. Robotnik''': Allow me to clarify: ''in a sequentially-ranked hierarchy, based on level of critical importance, the disparity between us is too vast to quantify.'' Agent Stone?\\

'''Lily''': Oh, here he comes-- switch to big words.\\

->''I've had enough of your snide insinuations. (punch)''

'''[[Wrestling/JerryLawler Jerry "The King" Lawler]]:''' Not only that, but he hurt his nose.

'''Flitter''': Yeah. (to [[HypercompetentSidekick Spike]]): what exactly does this machine do?\\
'''Spike''': [[LaymansTerms It tells you how fast you're flying and how strong your wings are]].\\

* {{Beat}}*\\

->''"NASA-ese is no worse than Air Force-ese or State Department-ese; I suppose each has its place, although none of them seems a desirable substitute for English. Examine the sentence "Jones and Smith don't get along well" translated into: (1) Air Force-ese: 'It is considered that effective utilization of the potential allegiance between Jones and Smith is not being harmoniously exploited"; (2) Nasa-ese: 'The interface between Jones and Smith has gone divergent"' (3) State Department-ese: "Messrs. Jones and Smith's abrasiveness vis-a-vis each other is counter productive to their bilateral relationship; each considers the other a ''bete noir''.''"

->There is a class of people not otherwise objectionable to whom one feels continually inclined to recommend the study of the English language. The language they use verges on slang, but is mostly like the "White Knight's pudding," an invention of their own, which they weakly regard as humorous. Their term for the ocean is always "the mill-pond" or the "briny deep." They never step on land, but on "terra firma." They "gaze at the starry firmament " in-stead of looking at the sky. And they meet their friends only upon " the Rialto." They never ask you to dinner, but "to grace the festal board." Their home is always their "vine and fig-tree," and their children are only their "olive- branches." Such cheap wit is far more tiresome than slang.

-->--''Disney/{{TreasurePlanet}}''

-->-- '''Lisa Loud''', ''Series/TheLoudHouse''

-->-- '''Reggie''' tells some new friends that they aren't as mutated as him, ''Major Bummer''

->"And so I, Mojo Jojo, impart upon you the empowerment of [[TitleDrop Mo' Linguish]]! And with this power, you will no longer speak in brief, boring, abbreviated sentences, but instead will wow the crowds with your scintillating usage of an overabundance of nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, prepositions, and of course the [[SchoolhouseRock Conjunction Junctions which have a multiple of functions]]."

'''Colin Kaepernick:''' [[LampshadeHanging I think this Bridgewater idiot wants his “thing” to be, “Guy that talks like he’s gargling a thesaurus.”]]

-->--'''Music/TheyMightBeGiants''', "Contrecoup"

-->--[[Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood King Friday XIII]] [[note]] singing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"[[/note]]

-->-- Bobby Drake, ''ComicBook/XMen'' #7

-->--''[[Series/YesMinister Yes, Prime Minister]]''

-->--''Comicbook/FantasticFour''

-->--''VideoGame/TheDig''

--> -- '''Plankton''', ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''

--> -- '''Ulysses Everett [=McGill=]''', ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou''

-->--'''''[[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl]]'''''

-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/voyager-season-three.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Favorite Son"

-->--'''Crow T. Robot''', ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E22TeenageCrimeWave Mystery Science Theater 3000: Teenage Crime Wave]]''

-->--'''Michael Collins''', ''Carrying the Fire''

-->--''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''

--> --'''Vektor''', TheAbridgedSeries of ''Film/TheMatrix''

-->--''Website/NFLQuarterbacksOnFacebook'', [[http://profootballmock.com/facebookchat/nfl-qbs-facebook-draftitude/ "Draftitude"]]

-->'''Shaw''', ''Series/PersonOfInterest''

-->'''[[GeniusBruiser Bentley]]''', ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon''

-->'''Lisa Loud''', ''Series/TheLoudHouse''

->'''{{Wolverine}}''': "[[VerbalTic Hey bub]], I'm a [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]]."\\
'''[[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Doctor Manhattan]]''': "At this point, I am obligated to inform you that I am a [[DCComics DC]] in order to differentiate between our companies. However, both companies exist in the same plane of reality, both contains the same number of particles. Structurally, there is no discernible differences."\\

-->--'''Mojo Jojo''', ''WesternAnimation/The PowerpuffGirls'' (episode "Mo' Linguish")