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Old 30th Oct 2003, 15:04
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BEagle
 
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Ah - but what fun you can have inventing words which sound as though they should mean something:

'Logorrhoea' (actually does exist!) - 'Talks too much'. Used this one about a co-pilot who never stopped talking in flight. He's now with Virgin Atlantic.

'Porcovolant' (I made it up) - Unlikely. As in 'pigs will fly first'. As in 'To anticipate an earlier IOS for this ac would be somewhat porcovolant'

The squirerarchy are usually too arrogant to admit they haven't any idea what such words mean. But for true sport, and a tactic I used against the thoroughly pompous 'Thrombo' was to use pseudo-Latin. Thrombo (nicknamed that from his time in the Malvinas when he kept visiting various sections and annoying them - hence 'Thrombo' as in 'wandering clot') loved his 'inter alia' etc. So a few 'His verbis dictis', 'Ob has causas', 'Nihil ad rem' sprinkled into stuff he was going to read used to be good wind-up material!

But this 'blue water thinking', 'pivotal requirement' and the pseudo-business speak..
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