King Mark 3,631 Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 CornucopiaMelangeDeclamatoryany others? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 Declamatory is a big word? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 I suppose "big words" is a relative thing, but some might consider "ephemeral" a big word.Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 Declamatory is a big word?It's not declaratory (not a big word) but declamatory (big word). Different words. The latter you don't really hear until college English. Temerity Or here's a good one "The discomfiture I felt as a musician..."....For crying out loud say "FRUSTRATION!" "EMBARASSMENT!" "PAIN" "SUFFERING"! Discomfiture? I mean, it's easy to derive meaning from the root, but holy hell that is one pretentious way of saying something so easily said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted May 1, 2007 Author Share Posted May 1, 2007 discomfiture...lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 Melange is a big word? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 Lietmotif. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 Lietmotif.So big it can't even be spelt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 Esactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 "I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way" -Mark Twain.Melange is a big word? You have to forgive us. They don't teach us poetic English in America. My dad always says if you want to learn your proper tongue, go to a different country and learn it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wycket 36 Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 Declamatory is a big word?It's not declaratory (not a big word) but declamatory (big word). Different words. The latter you don't really hear until college English. Temerity Or here's a good one "The discomfiture I felt as a musician..."....For crying out loud say "FRUSTRATION!" "EMBARASSMENT!" "PAIN" "SUFFERING"! Discomfiture? I mean, it's easy to derive meaning from the root, but holy hell that is one pretentious way of saying something so easily said.When you have a big vocabulary, you tend to use it without thinking. For JW, discomfiture is clearly a word he will use more commonly than say frustration or pain. Just because he uses it doesn't make him pretentious, just well learned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genius_Gone_Insane 5 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 "I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way" -Mark Twain.Never trust someone with that many vowels in his name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 I have been trained with an exorbitant knowledge of esoteric words in use by those instructed in the most difficult oration methods. Doesn't mean I go 'round speaking like a darn pedantic snob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 I ain't got much use for them folk who talk all fancy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wycket 36 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 I often use a great deal of bigger words in everyday conversion and my friends ask me, "seriously, did you just say that?" Most of the time I don't realize most of the words I use, as its part of my vocabulary and I don't consider it snobby or pretentious, but simply who I am and the words I know. Then again, I'm probably in the minority. To each his own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DU Lou 1 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 antediluvian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 I often use a great deal of bigger words in everyday conversion and my friends ask me, "seriously, did you just say that?" Most of the time I don't realize most of the words I use, as its part of my vocabulary and I don't consider it snobby or pretentious, but simply who I am and the words I know. Then again, I'm probably in the minority. To each his own.Whether you try to or not, when you use big words like that you will come off as a douche. Thats just the way it is. My vocabulary is rather large, but I rarely use alot of it because I'm just a relaxed person."I find this thread shallow and pedantic." - Peter Griffin (sort of) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodMusician 56 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 as we know John Williams isn't one to mince vocabulary... be it musical or linguistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 There's nothing wrong with having a refined or large vocabulary. It's how you use it that matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestro 147 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 John's vocabulary is one of the things I love about him! His interviews are so much more interesting (and precise) than 99% of the people in the film community. He's absolutely brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,042 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 I learned the word "immolation" from the ROTS OST. Yeah, that's right, I was blasphemous enough to buy ROTS before Schindler's List. What now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie 45 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Parenthetically.I thought I was smart for using "parenthesis" in conversation! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker 5 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Embiggens.Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Bellicose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Embiggens.It's a perfectly cromulent word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker 5 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dole 17 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 John's vocabulary is one of the things I love about him! His interviews are so much more interesting (and precise) than 99% of the people in the film community. He's absolutely brilliant.Personally, as much as I love JW, I prefer the short 4-letter words that Jerry Goldsmith used in interviews. Williams is my favorite film composer, but Goldsmith gave much more interesting interviews. Dole- who dreams of hearing an expletive-laden JW interview about the Star Wars prequels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 I don't think Williams' interviews are that exciting at all. You look at how people like Elfman, Goldsmith, Horner or Zimmer talk about their work, and it's much more interesting than Williams' usual diplomatic answers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Andrade 1,263 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 I imagine this will come as a surprise to everyone here, but I do find Williams interviews the most interesting ones.And the fun of discovering a new english word... so many joys... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Donnybrook.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicholas 1 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 As they say: why use a long word when a diminutive one will do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Melange is a big word?no, he's one of the rich posters on this board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Why build a sturdy bridge when a couple of planks will probably work. In the end I firmly believe that the dumbing down of language has led to the general dumbing down of the whole of the Western world. This has in turn led to street lingo and rap music, a general lack of respect for others, the destructive new youth culture, and a general unwillingness to better oneself. Kids today seem to be the most unresponsive, apathetic, and lethargic of any age. They are generally lazier, more selfish, and more concerned about their "attitude", and "rights" than about making a constructive contribution to their world. Sometimes I look at the teenagers of today and shudder at what the world will be like when they are in charge. Of course, our parents probably thought the same thing about us. Losing our language is only the start of a far bigger loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futuremartymcfly 0 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Yeah, I can't wait untill the English language loses five special letters thanks to non-stop txt mssgng. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckM 1 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 In the end I firmly believe that the dumbing down of language has led to the general dumbing down of the whole of the Western world. This has in turn led to street lingo and rap music, a general lack of respect for others, the destructive new youth culture, and a general unwillingness to better oneself. Kids today seem to be the most unresponsive, apathetic, and lethargic of any age. They are generally lazier, more selfish, and more concerned about their "attitude", and "rights" than about making a constructive contribution to their world. Sometimes I look at the teenagers of today and shudder at what the world will be like when they are in charge. Of course, our parents probably thought the same thing about us.So... language did that, huh? And here I thought it was just the depravity of mankind, and our diminishing sense of morals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Oh, I'm with Pixie. English language (as well as other popular languages like Spanish) has been impoverished with time, especially since the 20th century. Some people will call it evolution, and they may be right - but we have never had as much lingustic pet peeves floating around as we do, um, like, y'know, now?You know the song, "good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose...." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodMusician 56 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Anything goesAlthough, one could simply argue that it is the "American Culture" that these artists are adressing. Similar to how Langston Hughes spoke the language of the aferican american people/culture in his writings so they could relate and understand, so too, it may simply be that these people simply choose to speak in a fashion in which the common person could understand and relate to.A friend of mine once commented that he realized that Michael Crichton is actually a very intelligent man. He had always thought he was a common joe but what he realized is that he purposely writes down to the audience so that even though he is speaking of complex issues (global warming, exogenesis, quantum mechanics, chaos theory, Holocene Extinction, etc.) he uses words that keep people from being overwhelmed.Not to compare James Horner to this, but yea, an idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omen II 1,235 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Didn't Williams use the phrase "napalmy booms" in that featurette thingy on the Nixon CD? I heard him use the word "vicarious" in an interview about The Towering Inferno too.You heard it here first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Personally I won't be impressed until Williams used words like contrafribblarities, phrasmotic, and interphrastically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 "I'm anispeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 There are some words that I would rather not know the meaning to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 But good words should be savoured and enjoyed, rolled around on the tongue a little before spoken. Dennis Potter said that. There's a wonderful scene in The Singing Detective where Michael Gambon's character eulogises on the most beautiful word in the English language. Apparently it's "elbow". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Eulogises? Did the word die?There is absolutely nothing wrong with a relaxed way of speaking. We all don't have to be Mr. Webster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Apparently it's "elbow".What about "Cellar Door"? Ok, it's two words, but still... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Eulogises? Did the word die?It's not at all well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramer 0 Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 When Williams was talking about Schindler's List on a 1994 Evening at Pops program, he used the word 'tumult', Perlman quipped "I love that word, 'tumul'" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgraves 0 Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Gossamer(describing Hedwig's theme)Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeshopk 8 Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Gossamer(describing Hedwig's theme)JasonFestschriftdescribing "For Seiji!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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