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Are Donald Trumps speeches nothing but largiloquent dithyrambs? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Largiloquent: Bombastic.
Dithyramb: Ancient Greek improvised hymn about Dionysus.

You were almost coherent there, but not quite.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Dithyramb

A wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

As a Greek, yes this is the modern usage of the word.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Funnily enough if that just translates to bombastic, enthusiastic speech it's slightly redundant and not as descriptive of his speeches as it could be for being such flowery wording.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Inversely Cromulent

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Inversely Cromulent

Yes!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Vocabulary study embiggens us all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

enbiglifies.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I'll take "Leading Question" for $500, Alex

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

indubitably largiloquent

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago

He get it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You don't get out much do you?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Big words only :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I think you mean "sesquipedalian vocabulary exclusively"

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

excellent

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago

i should have included that in the title ha