Handley_Page
Draco interdum Vincit
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Dibbler for planting seedlings is totally new to me. Thanks for the education.
perique - noun a strong-favored Louisiana tobacco used in smoking mixtures
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Dibbler for planting seedlings is totally new to me. Thanks for the education.
perique - noun a strong-favored Louisiana tobacco used in smoking mixtures
Handley, thanks for the link to the dibber a good-looking device for planting seeds.
peripatetic(1) - noun 1. cap: ARISTOTELIAN 2. PEDESTRIAN, ITINERANT 3. pl: movements or journeyings hither and thither
peripatetic(2) - adj 1. cap: ARISTOTELIAN 2. of or relating to walking; ITINERANT
Welcome, Lia Monde. I know the feeling of that word.
Here is one I missed, but want to include, especially here at LIT;
periphrasis - noun 1. use of longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter and plainer form of expression: CIRCUMLOCUTION 2. an instance of periphrasis
Would that be the opposite of Obfuscation ?
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Just for the record;
circumlocution - noun 1. the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea 2. evasion in speech
To prepare my mind for period writing, I often read works published in the 1800s. I find they used a great deal of periphrasis and circumlocution to get their ideas across. Run-on sentences were the norm, and very lengthy ones at that. I must admit, I adore wordiness, preferably in prose. My love affair with whoever Shakespeare was continues and shall not be abated. Truly, neither do I speak nor write like a modern person, and that makes one stand out from the crowd, especially here in America. LOL
periodicity - noun the quality, state, or fact of being regularly recurrent
It's such a pity that Word [well my version, 2003, anyway] does not like long sentences.
Ignore it. What does Word know about authors?
It even complained about one of my submissions. http://www.literotica.com/s/breathless-stargazing
... What does Word know about authors? ...
I have few problems with Word...
For circumlocution in Literotica you could convey they idea "He fucked her" like this:
They went to bed, but not to sleep: he engaged in carnal intercourse with her without prior benefit of the nuptial rites...
Rule #1
If something can be said in five hundred words, use twenty-six thousand.
...Test flights of the Marine version, the F-35B, were stopped after a pilot aborted a takeoff because of a flaw in the propulsion system made by the Pratt & Whitney unit of United Technologies Corp. The incident involved a line in the plane’s fueldraulic system, which saves weight by using jet fuel instead of the customary hydraulic fluid to lubricate mechanical parts. ...