Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex Stroup
In academia, nobody has ever been punished for using 25-cent words (my inflation is horrible). You get rewarded for using words only 8 people in the world know. And since this is the case, when you just make up a word people will look up to you since they just assume you're part of secret inner-language cabal into which they've not yet earned induction.
|
The there's the old saying:
If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullcaca
Yep... I just love bumper sticker philosophy!