“Well, he said, in promulgating your esoteric cogitations and articulating superficial, sentimental and psychological observations beware of the platitudinous ponderosity. Let your extemporaneous decantations and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibilty and veracious Veracity without rodomontade and thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pusiallanimous vacuity, pestiferous profanity and similar transgressions.
“Or to put it a bit differently,” he concluded smilingly, “talk simply naturally, and above all, don’t use big words.