Sesquipedalian World
ABOUT LONG WORDS
do you like long & complex words? / yes => you are a sesquipedalian person living in a sesquipedalian world
this word comes from sesquipedalis = Latin / means => foot and a half long
Horace wrote in Ars Poetica / ~19 BCE
Projicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba,
Si curat cor spectantis tetigisse querelâ.
translated by George Colman the Elder / 1783
Drop their big six-foot words, and sounding speech;
Or else, what bosom in their grief takes part,
Which cracks the ear, but cannot touch the heart?
long words can’t enter the heart / they are cold strangers => harsh comprehension / sesquipedalian words are not social
Horace’s antidote
Short be your precepts, and th’ impression strong,
That minds may catch them quick, and hold them long!
probably we don’t need sesquipedalian words / except to create a fog of authority & high education - is it manipulation? / and nevertheless, i used long words in this post... LOL
write short / feel more / and more important => be yourself
do you like “big six-foot words”? - maybe that measure is good for a sandwich if you are too hungry
Taking it literally, that would make me a very short-lived leprechaun living on a fragment of meteorite with no atmosphere. Nasty, brutish and short.