gasstingy:
Heartfelt thanks! You inspired (?!) me to reread my posts, and oh my, I really did lay it on a bit thickly, didn't I? Ordinarily I try to dial it back, but sometimes my hypertrophic predilection for polysyllabic vocabulary gets the best of me. The kudos migrate right back across the savanna to you ... for actually reading my verbal impasto!!
(Must be a similar impulse that drives my quest for fuel mileage. I try to say the most using the least word count. This leads to my automatically scouring the dictionary's outback...)
Wanna hear something truly frightening? I talk exactly in the same manner as I write. If I read my stylings aloud, they become almost musical...
.......almost......
cheers apo