| Xiggi,
thanks for the quotations. I couldn't locate the one from Mark Twain - otherwise I would have included it in the OP. The attribution to Pascal is appropriate, somehow.
just_forget_me,
well, I'd call it more of a five dollar word, but point well taken. If you want to read a passage stuffed full of ten, twenty and fifty dollar words, look at the Introduction to Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf." I needed my dictionary to wade through it. |