Sesquipedalian comes from Latin sesquipedalis, "a foot and a half long,
hence inordinately long," from sesqui, "one half more, half as much
again" + pes, ped-, "a foot."
Lucky boy :)
Bill Davidsen wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Andrew Walrond wrote:
>
>
>>>I can understand your reasons, and I can also agree with them, but
>>>I am quite impressed reading a nominalistic discussion on lkml, with almost the
>>>same argumentations and logical plant of medioeval nominalistic
>>>syllogismi.
>>>
>>>It is quite interesting, the story of culture is quite a wheel, and
>>>people mental attitude, storically, seems to be recurisive (not evolutionary).
>>
>>
>>Cripes. Are you a lawyer? ;)
>
>
> No, a sesquipedaliac.
>
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