AN ODE TO PSEUDO-INTELLECTUALS
Let us praise these gregarious kith and kin whose
onus appears to be of a tutelage nature,
a voluminous quest
to irradiate our
vernacular stature,
to luxuriantly
masticate the great lack of trivialities
within our impalpable, languid street jargon.
Let us praise these magnanimous maestros while
they sink, with vehement raillery, their verbal
talons into the dense
necrosis of our minds:
lambasting turpitude
and mental lethargy
with incantations of irrevocable disdain
as we praise their latitudinarian souls.
Consider them not fey. Attempt not to efface
commiserated autointoxication.
They are not ignoble.
Titillated? Yes.
Sometimes pixilated.
But blatant incursions
can not adulterate our frugal imbroglio
as panegyrically we praise their pious oligarchy!
Whattahell, whattahell, whattahell? They mean well
and we should not snub these snobs although they mean well.
(It's satire, people! Read it as such!)
2007-10-12 05:46:55 · 9 answers · asked by Doc Watson 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
I wrote this several years back as a reply to several people I knew who were rather full of themselves and couldn't tell the difference between artificial and inefficient intelligence.
And to be honest with you here, I can't even remember what some of these words mean because I was pulling them out of the dictionary as I wrote this satire and never used those words again.
2007-10-12 05:51:48 · update #1
you are perfectly right. some pseudo-intellectuals often prefer big words and hollow concepts.
I once had a biology teacher in high school who used to refer to a frog by its Latin name: Rana temporaria; and the hyena was always crocuta crocuta. And if I gave a wrong answer, he would pronounce for everyone to hear,: "That is a terminological inexactitude, Ari!"
Let him be damned!
Such folks have forgotten the art of speech for candid communication. Continue to satirize their speech patterns. They deserve a good satirical laughter from us!!
Cheers!
2007-10-12 08:34:16 · answer #1 · answered by ari-pup 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Thesaurus Pull
2016-11-05 00:31:52 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2016-05-22 02:16:52 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, that is pretty impressive. That sort of looks sarcastic, but it's not. Praise to the one who uses the word panegyrically. I think that purposely dumbing down language is much more common, so
I cant cotton no big words
They make me real mad.
Grandma always says them words -
She is so not rad.
2007-10-12 14:32:37 · answer #4 · answered by aggylu 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oh my Doc, If I understood half of it I would probably think it's beautiful, I am impressed with your command of the English language. But to be honest, I just don't want to look up the considerable amount of words there I do not understand, besides I am a rotten speller! But I give you kudos none the less.
(((HUG)))
2007-10-12 11:11:03 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some only use fine words
to bash their verbal "betters"
(yet think even their own words
scarcely worthy of remembering.)
I see you in my mind
hunched over your Thesaurus
Eyes gleaming at the thought
of soiling our collective nose.
Why are you not enthralled as we
by the richness spread before you
what is it that escapes you
and leaves you naught but scorn?
And why dear soul after you've spent
so many good fine lines on your objective
do you admonish your readership
to show more restraint and tolerance?
To think this satire
I then must admit
my love affair with words
is a human vice or a folly
open to attack, irony, derision,
by your brand of wit ..
It is simply not possible
to lie that broadly
and be believed.
2007-10-12 07:01:23 · answer #6 · answered by recallthis2004 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Interesting...
The only misspelling I see is the word "whattahell" which I take it is a made up word for "what the hell."
2007-10-12 05:55:53 · answer #7 · answered by imaginaryhuman 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wittgenstein, Frege, and Russell are rolling over in their graves over that travestly of logic and language. Good work!
2007-10-12 05:58:14 · answer #8 · answered by Akkakk the befuddled 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I loved it, didn't understand a few words, but it's cute.
2007-10-12 05:59:21 · answer #9 · answered by Dondi 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋