Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Pedantic and boring words

Words can be great fun. It seems from time to time they lose their meaning. Another sign maybe that everything is in flux.

Why do people talk about a 'new initiative'? And it is growing in use and popularity. Is it just a great example of verbosity. Dictionary definition of verbose is interesting and fits well here. .. to be pedantic or boring, containing an excess of words.

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