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GRANDILOQUENT LANGUAGE
Word of the Day: CacozeliaWord of the Day: Using overly complicated vocabulary simply to impress others can itself become a form of cacozelia. The real distinction c...- Word of the Day: MagniloquentWord of the day: In an age where communication oscillates between brevity and spectacle, magniloquent shows language’s theatrical power. Gr...
- Word of the day: GrandiloquentGrandiloquent is a word that explains language or speech that is overly defined, pompous, or showy, often intended to impress rather than i...
- Word of the Day: SesquipedalianAs today’s Word of the Day, sesquipedalian reminds us that language is elastic. It can be stretched, compressed, embellished or stripped ba...
- Shashi Tharoor’s English finally meets its match, and his Hindi comeback is pure goldShashi Tharoor, known for his extensive vocabulary, faced a playful challenge on social media after defending India against US Treasury Sec...
- No full stops in political pedantryHippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is becoming increasingly common.
- Salman Rushdie to play Punjabi thug in Deepa Mehta's movie on Canada’s gangstersWinner of Booker of Bookers, Salman Rushdie says he will play “a very urbane sophisticated dada” in Deepa Mehta’s upcoming.
- India Growth Story: All hype and no action?Our inglorious meltdown at Olympics is another pointer telling us that it's high time we disabused ourselves of the notion that we are goin...
- Pakistan tries to proscribe text messages with offensive contentThe surprise is that list of proscribed words is longer in English than in Urdu, but containing much Punjabiisms, & even Kashmiri tidbits.
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