Jim Snyder wants to improve your conversation.
Oops, make that ameliorate your interlocution.
The former Republican candidate for lieutenant governor has a new book called "Lexical Semantics" that aims to help you learn new words to "spice up" resumes and reports.
Some of the words in the 252-page book are antediluvian, a few even baroque. But we don't want to castigate Snyder for not being more of a deipnosophist, since the choices in this eclectic collection are quite felicitious.
The garrulous among us appreciate his heterogenous and idiosyncratic approach. To see these words juxtaposed is fascinating. Though the kvetchy might find his one-word definitions too laconic, we found them magniloquent.
Perhaps this heralds a nascent movement towards obscurantism, a rebellion against the panegyrics of our quadrennial presidential campaigns, with their rebarbative rhetoric and sciolistic clarity. Is it tendentious to suggest these ubiquitous speeches are vacuous?
You may think we're being waggish, but only a xenophile could yammer in so many different languages. Not sharing this knowledge would be intellectual zabernism.
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Re: Ameliorate your interlocution
Good point re: felicitous. I modified the sentence slightly.
I would argue that zabernism, to say the least, is a bit antiquated.
— RTB