A Voice of HopeConcision – A Voice of Hope https://www.marylueverett.com Made in the image of God Tue, 01 Feb 2022 05:19:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Concision https://www.marylueverett.com/2008/10/26/concision/ https://www.marylueverett.com/2008/10/26/concision/#comments Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:26:17 +0000 Lu https://www.marylueverett.com/2008/10/26/concision/ Me:
I learned a new word recently and I'm dying to use it!

Friend:
Ooooo!! I'm really good at this sort of stuff! What's the word?

Me (excitedly; can hardly contain it):
Concision. Isn't it just the greatest word EVER!! I love the way it just rolls off the tongue….. "concision." Say it! Doesn't it just sound so cool and intelligent? I love it! I want to write a post using it, or about it.

Friend:
Well, don't make it a long one.

Silence while I give her a dirty look.

Friend:
I'm just saying… prolixity* would not be appropriate in a post with such a title, don't you think?

More silence; continued glaring.

Friend:
I'm just saying…

*Full disclosure: She actually used the word "verbosity," but I felt that was just too banal for the post, so I changed it (writer's prerogative) to a more grandiloquent word.

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