When you speak and write, there is no law that says you have to use big words. Short words are as good as long ones, and short, old words— like sun and grass and home—are best of all. A lot of small words, more than you might think, can meet.your needs with a strength, grace, and charm that large words do not have.

Big words can make the way dark for those who read what you write and hear what you say. Small words cast their clear light on big things— night and day, love and hate, war and peace, and life and death. Big words at times seem strange to the eye and the ear and the mind and the heart. Small words are the ones we seem to have known from the time we were born, like the hearth fire that warms the home.

Short words are bright like sparks that glow in the night, prompt like the dawn that greets the day, sharp like the blade of a knife, hot like salt tears that scald the cheek, quick like moths that flit from flame to flame, and terse like the dart and sting of a bee.

Here is a sound rule: Use small, old words where you can. If a long word says just what you want to say, do not fear to use it. But know that our tongue is rich in crisp, brisk, swift, short words. Make them the spine and the heart of what you speak and write. Short words are like fast friends. They will not let you down.

A perpetual plethora of poignant introspectiveness Alastromeria.

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While we're at it: short sentences.

Duh, that sound good. It sound smart. Real smart. Good variety.

Words are the equivalent of a smorgasborg. I am not going to settle for a few hundred words used over and over again in a repetitive vomiting of the English language's favorite stand-bys.

Furthermore, I like my words like I like my battle tanks. Huge, crushing, powerful. Richard Lederer may like mothy, fairy, sparkly words but that's not for the meat eating, cigar smoking, baby seal wearing kind of men.

Oroborous...One day I will take the ferry across lake Michigan and buy you a beerski XD Cheers!

I have no words.

Words are the prelude to an axe to the skull.

They are useful for distracting your opponent while you strike the killing blow.

Theres a book explaining that short words are better? And the person that wrote it deceided to call it "The Miracle of Language"? Isn't he/she kinda contradicting him/herself?

You know, Orob...

Meat eating, cigar smoking, baby seal wearing kind of men don't say "smorgasbord," unless they're from Sweden. Ever. (At least you misspelled it, though, so we'll let it slide. Oh, and it's "ersatz," not "erstatz.")

I think you could work some more on your long words, too. Let's try this,

"I prefer the individual syllables and components of which my working vocabulary is comprised to simulate track-propelled, heavily fortified, casualty-inflicting combat vehicles."

Oooooh yeah. That's much better. Yeah, baby. Yeah.

Also, not everyone who plays EfU is a native english speaker.

1) I've got a great vocabulary. Two, I suck goat nipples at spelling.

2) What's the nationality of the player base have to do with vocabulary? Some of our foreign language speakers do better than natives with word choices.

That's probably because they pick solid, short words.

MrGrendel That's probably because they pick solid, short words.

There are several with excellently varied vocabularies. This whole argument is like claiming "I can't run, I only know how to walk, so no one should walk faster than me."

At least, as I seem to understand your argument.

Alstro's point though was just that sometimes short solid words make a point.

For example:

"Bang. You're dead."

Much better than:

"Concussive Blast of Sonic Energy. Your existance assumes a cadaverous state."

Sometimes that is the case, but its all something you choose like an artist from a palette of colors.

Sometimes you may want pastels, other times deep bold colors. I know where my preference goes. To each their own.

Very good! Much better than ridicule and implicit questioning of manhood, Orob. With time, I think you might get this civil discourse thing downpat!

MrGrendel Very good! Much better than ridicule and implicit questioning of manhood, Orob. With time, I think you might get this civil discourse thing downpat!

I'm losing hope for you though since that was just rude, whereas my earlier statements were a play on words from a Dennis Leary skit, wherein I implicitly implied I was just an 'asshole'.

I'm the only one allowed to insult Oro. Locked to ensure noone breaks this rule.