I am delirious

I am delirously ecstatic and enduring about all the unintelligible comments I've been getting on Phololog's blog!

Here is one of the comments:

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Imagine that! I've been added to their last will and testament.

Now, I don't know how this works, but these comments pop up, anonymously, of course, and if I publish it, I get several more comments in gibberish. So I'm just going to tweek it a bit.

I am now familiar with all of your blogs and articles and I
enjoy them tremendously. I am so envious of your
fascinating style of writing. I even recommend it to
my friends who don't speak English. I am hoping
I can hire you soon to write some content for my own
website. Thanks for sharing your impeccable insight
and wisdom with us!

That kind of sounds like English.

They do send me crazy links, some in other languages and some that are completely inappropriate.

I would like to thank you in advance for sending me some intelligent, intelligible comments. I would really love to receive them.

Ambassador

Ambassador is a grand word.

It means representative. But sounds more regal.

ambassador - n. a diplomat of the highest rank or personal representative. From Late Latin.

Do you have the Gumption?

gumption - n. 1. bold, energetic initiative. 2. shrewd common sense. From English dialect (Scot.)

So initiative and shrewdness would be synonyms...

shrewd - adj. 1. sharp or wise; sagacious. 2. artful, sly. Middle English.

I think boldness would be a better synonym.

But I chose this word because gumption is such a weird-sounding word. Most words that end with tion are words on their own. For example, invention and action. But gump is not. Gump is a very harsh-sounding syllable, and is not in the dictionary.

It also does not have an adjective associated with it. May I suggest gumptuous? Rhymes with sumptuous. Now that is a horse of a different color. That one letter, which makes the initial sound, G or S, makes a BIG difference!

A Jury of Your Piers

I know orthography doesn't count for anything anymore, but when I get an email from someone trying to sell me high priced products, I expect them to edit and correct their work. Once in a while I publish my blog with a misspelling, and I correct it as soon as possible. And if I were sending marketing material, it would be proofread first. I understand that spell-check will not find this mistake. "Pier" is a valid word, so the computer cannot know or care if someone has a pier full of boats or is referring to another person, considered equal in legal terms. And people might not notice, because pier sounds just like peer and both are nouns...

I am probably in the minority, but send me a sales pitch with such a glaring error and you lose all credibility in my eyes. I won't do business with you.

I am probably in the minority, because most people wouldn't notice the error, that I find so glaring. But I think people should be more careful with written documents.

Do I have any peers that agree with me?

Any piers?

Gloria

It has come to my attention that gloria is not just a name, but a valid word in English.

gloria -- n. a burst of brilliant dazzling light. From Latin.

Glorious means splendid, magnificent, delightful.

I was awakened by the gloria in my room this morning.

Magnificent Munificent Extravagance

I encountered this word in a book by Wayne Dyer. He's a very prolific writer.

He said something about the Munificent Universe.

Munificent -- adj. Lavish, liberal or generous. From French.

This word sounds a lot like magnificent.

Magnificent -- adj. 1. great in deed, exalted.
2. marked by stately grandeur and lavishness.
3. sumptuous in structure and adornment.
4. impressive to the mind or spirit.
5. exceptionally fine.

So they are synonyms in one sense of the word (meaning #2).

Swell is also a synonym for Magnificent, but magnificent sounds much more impressive than swell, or even munificent.

Grand would also be a synonym for swell and magnificent. Great also... and extravagant.

I also like sumptuous. I think I have written about it before.

I will end this rumination before I become magniloquent.

Magniloquent -- adj. characterized by a pedantic or bombastic manner. French, mais oui (of course).

May you be spared Mayhem

Those commercials are so funny that feature a man in a suit who claims to be Mayhem.

Mayhem -- violent accident; needless or willful damage; crippling mutilation, or disfigurement of any body part.

It is a mellifluous word for a disaster.

It comes from Old French.