Wordie: Recondite: Comments

Comment by logos, about 1 month ago

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:24:09 +0000

I recall this as an SAT-prep word

Comment by chained_bear, 8 months ago

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:09:11 +0000

"...having sailed with Captain Aubrey since the turn of the century... he could now almost always discriminate between larboard and starboard: he prided himself extremely on his acquaintance with fore and aft and some even more recondite nautical terms."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 18

Comment by AbraxasZugzwang, about 1 year ago

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:59:18 +0000

From pompousasswords.com:

Is not such recondite reasoning, leading to such opaque conclusions about such baroque regulations of speech, prima facie evidence of incompatibility with the austere brevity of the First Amendment?

Could we find a more pompous ass passage this year? I don't think so. Of course, Bill Bennett is still out there.