Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Pot/Black Kettle?

tur·gid (tûr'jid)adj.
1. Excessively ornate or complex in style or language; grandiloquent: turgid prose.

Don't you think that if you use the word "turgid" to criticize someone else's prose as being excessively complex, you're being a little hypocritical?

Just sayin'...

4 comments:

cecilia said...

i concur.

("turgid" was one of those words i never knew quite what it meant, but always pretended i did if i came across it. it's always seemed to me like a cross between turbulent and frigid so i think of a cold and stormy sea.)

cecilia said...

also, your post made me think of that wilco song "pot kettle black."

Caroline said...

hmm, never heard that song before. is it good?

Caroline said...

also, i have to use the word grandiloquent REALLY soon...maybe on the gmat this weekend...