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<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Allow me to disagree with you, Scott,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Brevity is not simply the soul of efficiency,
and it is certainly the soul of wit<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>(we say in German: “In brevity lies
the spice”).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Let me add a few cowboy expressions to your
list about “talkativeness:”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>He could talk a cow out of her calf<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>He could talk a pump into believing it’s
a windmill<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>He’s such a talker that he blowed in
on his own wind<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>One of them flannel-mouth hombres<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Best, Fritz<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Scott Nelson wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>"Brevity is the soul of wit". How fun that a
bard, no -- the <br>
bard -- would utter such a pithy, quotable axiom -- yet he violates <br>
it at every almost turn. And luckily for us that he taught us to <br>
violate the axiom. Brevity, it turns out, is not the soul of wit, it <br>
is simply the soul of efficiency. <br>
For example, what if we didn't have synoms, proverbs, axioms, <br>
and expressions to convey the idea of "talking too much" or
"overly <br>
talkative?" One could simply use the root "bloviate" to <br>
include "bloviater" or "bloviatious" or "bloviatingly.<wbr>"
How uniform, <br>
expressive, and cogent. But aside from the fact that it would be <br>
extremely boring, it would lack connative substance and stress. Even <br>
being creative, using diverse adjectives like: wordy, loquacious, <br>
talkative, or windy -- it would get repetitive. So the human brain <br>
came up with phrases, largely synonomous, that are much more <br>
creative, and much more fun. The following are a few select phrases, <br>
some earthy, some humorous, some even sexist. But all are definitely <br>
more symphonic than single words. <br>
<br>
<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><<o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>can talk a blue streak;<br>
swear/swore a blue streak;<br>
can swear a blue streak;<br>
curse a blue streak; <br>
<br>
clucking hens;<br>
two clucking hens;<br>
like two clucking hens;<br>
<br>
cackle like hens;<br>
cackling like hens at.... <br>
<br>
A whale is harpooned only when it spouts.<br>
<br>
chatter like a magpie;<br>
<br>
idle chatter;<br>
<br>
chatter in the pipe;<br>
<br>
chatter like a monkey;<br>
<br>
diarrhea of the mouth;<br>
diarrhea of the jawbone;<br>
<br>
verbal diarrhea;<br>
oral diarrhea;<br>
<br>
Empty vessels make the most sound.<br>
Empty vessels make the most noise.<br>
<br>
have itching ears;<br>
have an itching tongue;<br>
<br>
run one's mouth;<br>
run at the mouth;<br>
run off at the mouth;<br>
running off at the mouth;<br>
<br>
babble on about (something) {incl.<br>
babble on and on; <br>
<br>
Babbling brooks are noisy.<br>
<br>
ramble on about(something)<wbr>;<br>
<br>
talk up a storm;<br>
<br>
run one's mouth;<br>
running one's mouth;<br>
run at the mouth;<br>
running at the mouth;<br>
run off at the mouth;<br>
running off at the mouth;<br>
<br>
talk on and on;<br>
talk on and on about (something);<br>
<br>
go on and on;<br>
go on and on about (something);<br>
<br>
rattle on and on;<br>
rattle on and on about (something);<br>
rattle on about (something);<br>
<br>
babble on about (something) <br>
<br>
A politician is a man who approaches every question with an open <br>
mouth.<br>
<br>
All it takes for an arugument is two loud mouths and four deaf <br>
ears.<br>
<br>
all mouth and no ears;<br>
<br>
excess verbiage;<br>
<br>
flip-lipped;<br>
<br>
long-winded;<br>
a long-winded (something);<br>
<br>
could talk the bark off a tree;<br>
<br>
talk the pants off someone<br>
<br>
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent <br>
an evening with an insurance salesman? (Woody Allen)<br>
<br>
They're a perfect match. The weatherman is long-winded, and the <br>
English proffesor is long on rhetoric.<br>
<br>
babble on and on;<br>
ramble on about(something)<wbr>;<br>
<br>
talk up a storm;<br>
<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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