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** Hell, on the subject of Orwell, the entire essay [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm Politics and the English Language] is a tract against sesquipedalian loquaciousness. |
** Hell, on the subject of Orwell, the entire essay [https://web.archive.org/web/20100715144246/http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm Politics and the English Language] is a tract against sesquipedalian loquaciousness. |
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* This trait is quite common among [[Jack Vance]] characters, generally as a sugar-coating on their jerkass behavior. Note that V, the page image is a character from a webcomic inspired by [[Dungeons & Dragons]], a series which itself was inspired by Vance's writings. |
* This trait is quite common among [[Jack Vance]] characters, generally as a sugar-coating on their jerkass behavior. Note that V, the page image is a character from a webcomic inspired by [[Dungeons & Dragons]], a series which itself was inspired by Vance's writings. |
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* Howard Hibble of the ''[[Jason Wander]]'' series is the leading expert on the aliens humanity is currently at war with, and occasionally lapses into this mode of speech. Lampshaded by Jason, who speaks normally but has good verbal skills, when discussing an alien device. Howard describes it as "a metallic, oblate spheroid." Jason translates this as "a tin football." |
* Howard Hibble of the ''[[Jason Wander]]'' series is the leading expert on the aliens humanity is currently at war with, and occasionally lapses into this mode of speech. Lampshaded by Jason, who speaks normally but has good verbal skills, when discussing an alien device. Howard describes it as "a metallic, oblate spheroid." Jason translates this as "a tin football." |
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