[savedbygrace]

If I were as talented as Mark Twain, I could write something like the following about George Will:

http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/rissetto/offense.html

Will writes as though many years ago he purchased a large number of 4+ syllable words, and he feels he must use them all often so he gets his money’s worth.

[firebrand]

Never use a Latinate word where an Anglo-Saxon one would do the job.

[Albion Wilde]

Your link to Mark Twain's review of Cooper's Deerslayer is priceless. Makes me wonder if future "dumbed down" generations will be taught Dave Barry?

[ladyjane]

Will writes as though many years ago he purchased a large number of 4+ syllable words,

That's he reason I enjoy reading Will. It's fun to bump into a word one hasn't used or hasn't read for a couple of years. And it's a refreshing change from the Key of C drivel we're exposed to from the journalists. The misuse of words is ubiquitous, not to mention the misspellings and typos.

I do enjoy Mark Twain as well, even if he had an penchant for prepubescent girls.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Indeed. He fancies himself a master of polysyllabic sesquipedalianism.

He ain’t.