My latest #isBrill is about the #games of #OverWording

Over-wording is: The ostentatious art of employing rarefied verbiage peppered with a sampling of lexical obfuscation to communicate with one's peers in such a manner so as to confuse those lacking in your shared extended vocabulary.

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Over-wording

Over-wording is a game my friends and I like to play where we try to say things using as wide a vocabulary as possible. As teenagers, we would sometimes employ over-wording to openly communicate about our plans which would specifically exclude those who could not keep up. It was a lot of fun. Over-wording is…