Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Difference between revisions

** He once wrote a book report entitled "The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in ''Dick And Jane'': A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender Modes."

** ''What if someone calls us a pair of pathetic peripatetics?''

** His [[Imagine Spot|Imagine Spots]] are readily identified because it carries over to ''everyone's'' dialogue (even mid-ravishing).

* Mammoth Mogul of the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' comic is known for this, to the point that when told Mogul wants to talk with him, Sonic prays that he has a sore throat as he's got other things to do that day.

* [[Meaningful Name|Ulysses]] Everett McGill speaks almost entirely like this in ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]?'', as does villain [[Eyepatch of Power|"Big Dan" Teague]].

** At least in McGill's case, it's inverted in that the story makes it patently obvious that Everett is using the big words because he's ''trying'' to sound smarter, and because he ''does'' think he's smarter than his two less-inclined companions.

{{quote|'''V:''' Voilà ! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. [[Overly Long Gag|Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose]], so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.<br />

'''Evey Hammond:''' ... Are you like a crazy person? }}

* Perceptor, of ''[[The Transformers (animation)|The Transformers]]''. It's particularly bad when your fellow robots, all of whom would likely have the whole of a given language in their databanks, ask you to say something "in [language], please". It probably doesn't help that he has a habit of going into details WHILE using complex words, to the point where Optimus tires of it in seconds.

** Grimlock also does it when he get smart in the episode "Grimlock's New Brain".

** Highbrow is also guilty of this, in "The Rebirth".

{{quote|'''Highbrow:''' I suppose it's the only meritorious way out of a meretricious situation.

** Some doctors will also do this for insurance purposes. Many insurance companies require a diagnosis before paying for a visit, resulting in diagnoses like "benign dermal melanin concentrations" (freckles).

* Computing is one area that has so much jargon (both technical and slang) that when you've had extensive exposure to the field, such as taking a Computer Science degree at university, or have just simply been mucking around with computers for years, it becomes extraordinarily difficult to explain something to someone with less knowledge of the subject than you.

** Sufficiently large technical communities can develop their own specialized vocabulary on top of normal technical terms, such that an entire sentence can be incomprehensible to expert outside programmers, and doubly incomprehensible to non-programmers.

*** Triply so due to the fact that some jargon have been re-used to mean different things elsewhere, in both the specialist and layman sense.