Logorrhea

It’s conventional wisdom that politicians are self-absorbed windbags. Another piece of evidence to contribute: the longest words in the English and French languages are antidisestablishmentarian and anticonstitutionnellement respectively, both of which pertain to the political realm.

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3 Responses to Logorrhea

  1. fxl says:

    How about “antidisestablishmentarianISM”?

  2. majid says:

    You are right, of course. I was working from memory, and forgot to fact-check.

  3. fxl says:

    Well, my comment was an act of pure floccinaucinihilipilification.

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