Megalomania is a psychopathological condition characterized by delusional
fantasies of power, relevance, omnipotence, and by inflated self-esteem.
How many $10 words are there in the above sentence? Would it be accurate to assume that it took a megalomaniac to draft the definition provided? This is taken directly from the Wikipedia entry for megalomania.
you left out "self aggrandizement".
I learned that one from Robert Bork.
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"That describes my last employer"
Aloha, Holy Cow:
You are a true sesquipedalian!
"sesquipedalian"
ses = six
quip = witty remark
e = per
da = day
lian = representative of
Thus.....representative of six witty remarks per day. Sounds a bit low to me.
Which reminds me of a very old joke about two Brits trying to understand what "category" meant. They understood what cat meant and e in Britain means he and gory is a bloody mess. They arrived at category = bloody tom cat.
You mean like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Fans of the TV cartoon show, King of the Hill featuring Hank Hill and family, will recall that whenever they go shopping they do so at Mega-Lo-Mart. That's a nice play on the term megalomaniac.
> "sesquipedalian"
>
> ses = six
> quip = witty remark
> e = per
> da = day
> lian = representative of
>
> Thus.....representative of six witty remarks per day. Sounds a bit low to me.
>
> Which reminds me of a very old joke about two Brits trying to understand what "category" meant. They understood what cat meant and e in Britain means he and gory is a bloody mess. They arrived at category = bloody tom cat.
Aloha, Holy Cow:
I didn't know there was breakdown of the word the way you did. Very fascinating.
I only understood its meaning as a person uses "long words"
Check out the all knowing wiki link:-)
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Wow! That is a very, very long word!!!
I saw the heading of this post and thought it was going to be about M. Binge's latest BS w/ Keith over on the old board. Fits him to a "T".
> I saw the heading of this post and thought it was going to be about M. Binge's latest BS w/ Keith over on the old board. Fits him to a "T".
Thanks for the heads up, I needed something amusing to read over lunch.
I suspect that in High School civics class Keith refused to read "The Federalist Papers" telling the teacher that if Hamilton, Madison & Jay didn't have to balls to come out from behind their pseudonym and publish under their own names, like real men, then they had nothing valuable to contribute.
