Mar 29 2009
Making Words Ridiculous
As you may have already guessed from the title, this is your chance to write something particularly distasteful, especially to me. Choose your words carefully now, for I want you to create a short selection of the most flowerful, obnoxious, irritatingly pompous language imaginable. Try to use the biggest words imaginable (use a thesaurus if it helps) to describe the simplest, most mundane act.
My example:
Olivia slipped her silken limb gracefully among countless water molecules, aided in her quest by the magic found in her secret bottle filled with a new elixir, one destined to wash the grime from even the most intrepid oil-laden china. As surely as her hands flitted like hummingbirds, swerving past the once shiny objects deep within her own private ocean, the elixir came to her aid, cleansing them before her very eyes. “Ah!” she sighed. “To have such magic!”
(I would have kept writing, but I had to stop and puke. In fact, I actually had to come back and write more on the second go at it.)
Now it’s your turn to make me puke. Get unreal, and make your words ridiculous.
She snatched the arciformed receptacle embellished in cerulean and amaranth blossoms with goldenrod vines, sprinkled amongst a collage of taupe blades and xanadu rectilinear forms, composed over the periwinkle and ivory background. The emanation of feculent-filled nappies crinkled her colossal proboscis as she conveyed the stench-filled wastebasket to the scullery. Fleetly, lest the noisomeness cause her further vexation, she expelled the fusty cargo into the gaping aperture of the alabaster, synthetic polymer tote. She released the befouled, malodorous gunboat and reached for the claret-colored fasteners. Hastily, she pawed them and contrived a bowtie closure. Then she lugged the mephitis mash to the exterior dumpster and unceremoniously deposited the achromatic poke.
Wow, neenee’s good at this.
Thank you! It was fun finding the most absurd words possible to describe taking out the trash.
Oh, neenee and Stephanie, those are amazing! Thanks so much for playing! I’ll be sure and do your writing activity today, Stephanie, as soon as I can!