Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Difference between revisions

 

The polar opposite of [[Buffy-Speak]]. [[Big Words]] redirects here, for those of us who prefer to avert this trope in [[Real Life]]. Contrast the [[Laconic]]. Also note that the similarity to [[Techno Babble]]. May require one to have a [[Translator Buddy]].

 

* Episode 22 of Azumanga Daioh does this is the English Dub. In the Japanese version, it's just [[Gratuitous English]].

* Leeron in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' frequently does this after the [[Time Skip]], with "short versions" inevitably following after he loses his audience.

 

== Stage-acted media (Theater) ==

* ''[[Hamlet]]'' spoofs it with the character Osric, who desperately tries to look intelligent by talking this way. Hamlet mocks him by going even farther over the top with it. As you might imagine, a [[Shakespeare]] speech that's deliberately written to be obtuse and impenetrable is quite something to witness.

** Let's not forget Polonius and his love of speaking many words! "Brevity is the soul of wit," indeed.

* ''[[The Mikado]]'': Pooh-Bah "can trace [his] ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule."

** The [[Modern Major-General]] in ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'' does a bit of this too, though more on the loquacious side.

* Parodied to the extreme with Lucky's three page monologue in ''[[Waiting for Godot]]''. Read through it carefully and there is actually a philosophical point being made, but it is embroidered with so much verbal diaorreah, non-sequitors and just sheer nonsense words that it sounds like a complete load of gibberish.

* In one version of the ''[[Three Little Pigs]]'', the judge's page speaks this to a ridiculous extent.