Thread: Книжки для улучшения красноречия

Yes, such books exist. And it was Alexander Pushkin* who first felt the irresistible desire to burn human hearts with words (Глаголом жги сердца людей!). And the very best idea on how to start the process is to substitute bleak, common, trite words with their sophisticated, elaborate and eloquent “peers”. Have a Look at the following review,

“The Word I’m Thinking Of” by Michael Gates is a foudroyant, often gelastic lexicography of polysyllabic perspicacity. I don’t wish to obnubilate, nor do I want to be rebarbative, but “The Word I’m Thinking Of” will remedy your hebetudinous nescience, allowing you to be the sciolist your Mother always thought you should be.

Allow me to enucleate. Michael Gates is no blatherskite. Au contraire, Mon ami. Nor does he bloviate like a common blatteroon. And “The Word I’m Thinking Of” is neither gasconade nor glaikery. No longer will you feel threatened by an invidious, gormless gowk or peccant killcow. This luciferous tome will help you peregrinate from stultiloquence to puissance in short order.

Do not think I am ultracrepidarian, or spouting ugsome tushery. Nor am I a mendacious makebate. If ataraxia is your goal, “The Word I’m Thinking Of” provides an anfractuous desideratum. I recommend it for your personal edification, or just for jocularity. Eschew obfuscation! Kthxbye.

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Originally Posted by diogen_

*А. С. Пушкин. Пророк (

Интересно, прочитала ли Valda первые строчки этого стихотворения. Там упоминается серафим, а на иврите это - множественное число. Так сложилось, что при переводе на русский серафы и керубы стали серафимами и херувимами. Но так даже красивее, по-моему.