- Hemingway,
among others,
famously avoided it.
Synonyms of "verbosity"
include wordiness, verbiage, loquacity, garrulousness, logorrhea, prolixity, grandiloquence...
- "
Wordy Rappinghood" is the
debut single by
American new wave band Tom Tom Club, from
their 1981 self-titled
debut album. It uses part of a traditional...
-
introduced which would remain until into the 90s as well as the
character Wordy (see below). In the 1980s and
early 1990s the
plots also
started to contain...
- The
Wordy Shipmates is the
fifth book by the
American social commentator Sarah Vowell,
published in
October 2008. The book
chronicles the 17th and 18th...
- of text.
According to Ron Fein of the Word 97 team,
AutoSummarize cuts
wordy copy to the bone by
counting words and
ranking sentences. First, AutoSummarize...
- the
causes of this
early nomadic life as a
songwriter was his songs'
wordiness: "I'd
spent a lot of time on lyrics, and they were
looking for hooks,...
-
project from
Talking Heads.
Their best
known songs include the UK top 10 hit "
Wordy Rappinghood" and the US top 40 hit "Genius of Love", both from
their 1981...
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skills but
atypical social/conversation skills,
focused interests, and
wordy,
pedantic communication. They may
still require significant support in some...
-
clarify a
potentially confusing question, but he had a
penchant for
amusingly wordy, long-winded
replies that
often left
panelists more
confused than before...
- not
available at the time, and
Thompson modified the
syntax to be less '
wordy' and
similar to a
simplified ALGOL known as SMALGOL. He
called the result...
