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Oh, and I've always thought there should be a word "Displayment"
(And how about Pompousness/pomposity - those are *real* words - do you use both?)
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2004-01-09 09:17 am (UTC)
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I think it would be bad style to use both in the same document or set of documents, since they have the same meaning.
You could use both "pompousness" and "pomp", of course, since due to a quirk of etymology they don't mean the same thing.
I also not that rather splendidly, there's no shorter precise equivalent of "pompousnesslessness".
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Date: 2004-01-09 08:03 am (UTC)(And how about Pompousness/pomposity - those are *real* words - do you use both?)
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Date: 2004-01-09 09:17 am (UTC)I think it would be bad style to use both in the same document or set of documents, since they have the same meaning.
You could use both "pompousness" and "pomp", of course, since due to a quirk of etymology they don't mean the same thing.
I also not that rather splendidly, there's no shorter precise equivalent of "pompousnesslessness".