A guide to Syvretspeak

[crappogre]

It remains a mystery why these big words are mostly only likely to be seen in the writings of Senator Stuart Syvret. Here is a reference for those of us left scratching our heads when Stuart talks down to our puny and worthless intellects

Beckettian
An eponymous adjective (named after a person) after Samuel Beckett, an Irish writer, dramatist and poet whose work is stark and fundamentally minimalist. Considered one of the last modernists and sometimes one of the first postmodernists, also one of the key writers in what Martin Esslin called "Theatre of the Absurd".

Crypto-
Secret or hidden, i.e. crypto-fascism is the secret adherence of a party or group to the doctrines of fascism while attempting to disguise it as another political movement.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-fascism

Jurisprudence
The theory and philosophy of law. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisprudence

Kafkaesque
Used to describe concepts, situations, and ideas which are reminiscent of the literary work of Prague writer Franz Kafka, particularly his novels The Trial and The Metamorphosis. Quite fluid in definition, it has also been described as "marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafkaesque

Oligarchy
is a form of government where political power effectively rests with a small elite segment of society (whether distinguished by wealth, family, military powers or spiritual hegemony).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy

Ozymandian
1) A work of great hubris, generally fleeting and devoid of meaning, especially a tremendous structure or public work.
2) Possessing the quality of a warning against such hubris, esp. when the warning is presented ironically.

Soi-disant
So-called, self-styled / self-proclaimed, 'calling himself', supposedly, would-be.
Or : "As claimed by and for yourself often without justification"
"Familiarity information: SOI-DISANT used as an adjective is very rare". Not in Stuartland it isn't!

Trustfarian / Trustafarian / Trustifarian
A rich young white person, from a mansion house in the shires, usually with trust funds from mummy and daddy yet pretends he is poor. This species, more often than not, have dreadlocks, wear ethnic clothing, play the digeree-doo, dodge soap and generally mope around thinking they alternative and above everyone else. Over the last 20 years or so they have infested India, Thailand and Nepal under the premise they are travellers, not tourists. Most will end up working for their daddy as a venture capitalist.


Keep a lookout for more and let us know! ;D

[Bea]

You could not make this stuff up !!!

[dimples]

I doubt he is talking down to you; after all, he was a simple chippy from Clarence Court.

However, if you feel offended or slighted by him saying in one big word that which he could say in a long sentence then I suggest the problem is actually yours and not his.

Axiomatically you have had to research the words (ergo your references) ipso facto (that's Latin by the way - look it up) perhaps your sagacity really is as exiguous as you sardonically propound.

[crappogre]

LOL.

More today...
Hieronymus Bosch-world ( see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch )

I just find it a bit strange when people resort to big words to lend their arguments an air of "cred", as if their reasoning wouldn't be taken seriously without such obscure verbosity?

This is why I fear Stuart's Charter is doomed to fail. He has shown many times that he simply won't listen to well meaning (and well judged) advice from others, prefering to follow his own course - whether it's long-winded rants that lose readers' interest, the big words, the arguing with fools, the petulant behaviour that costs him support for no good reason, justified by the belief that his opponents deserve all they get. While I can admire his belief in himself and his own judgement, I think it's a great shame that he appears to not take good advice.

I expect him to present his Charter in a Take It Or Leave It fashion - closing his ears to any suggestions for ammendments. I do hope I'm wrong.

[dduval]

If you read this you will see why he uses the big fancy words, nothing to do with "cred" more to do with a love of the english language and having a laugh at times as well.

stuartsyvret.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html

[Nobody]

I would say of Syvret that it's a pleasant change to read a blog which assumes a certain level of intelligence of its readership. All too often online "dumbing down" is the norm.

That said, what I've found over my few years spent online is that internet communication is most efficient if delivered in a manner understandable by the majority. That doesn't mean "dumbing down", but it does mean avoiding the assumption that everyone else owns a well thumbed copy of Roget's Thesaurus. Keep it informative, but keep it understandable on a basic level.

Unlike national newspapers, which individually tend to attract a certain intellectual demographic, an internet posting will be read by a cross-section of society, everyone from morons to holders of multiple M.A.'s....and even people for whom English is a second or third language.

So the best way to get any message to the online masses, is to hit that middle ground. Get your information across in a straightforward and understandable manner, without attempting to be either a 21st Century Shakespere or a Beavis and Butthead scriptwriter.

[crappogre]

Absotively posilutely.
If he's doing it because of a love of language and genuine nerdy appreciation of rare words, he may think that justifies it - but in reality it's just eccentric and tainted with lunacy as speaking in rhyme or song, or incredibly loudly like Brian Blessed, showing disrespect for your audience in an almost equal but opposite way to peppering speech with expletives. It's like "Stuff convention, I'll communicate however the hell I want and **** you all if you don't like it."
Do we just have to humour such wordy people for their odd behaviour?
Or am I just being boring and I should appreciate life's eccentrics more?
I think I may need to mull it over a little more and wait for my current grumpy spell to pass

[davidrotherham]

It is a question of targetting one's audience. Stuart aims at those who already know what he means, or at least, like Crappogre, can look it up. Despite his reputation for populism, he is clearly reaching out to the intellectual elite in his writings. Perhaps he should do more stuff that his core supporters can get, but he does not. I, too, tend to a dense and grandiloquent style by nature, but I consider who I want to take notice, and would pitch a call to vote for a less cynical government in much plainer English than I would a call to politicians and mandarins to improve a policy.
Although I disapprove of his content sometimes, I love to listen to or read Stuart's stuff because he does make his points, whether right or wrong, with such wonderful eloquence.
Anyway, for those who don't like that kind of thing, there is always Terry le Main!

[crappogre]

"But I have tried not to be too nasty to the accretion of idiots, which by happenstance, error or stealth have agglomerated in the island’s parliament."

Accretion is a process in which the size of something gradually increases by steady addition of smaller parts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion

Agglomeration seems to be about urban sprawl
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglomeration

[crappogre]

perspicacious
Having or showing penetrating mental discernment; clear-sighted; observant; perceptive; clever awareness and resourcefulness in practical matters

malfeasance
Misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official

[eastrock]

Apparatchik

is a Russian colloquial term for a full-time, professional functionary of the Communist Party or government; i.e., an agent of the governmental or party "apparat" (apparatus) that held any position of bureaucratic or political responsibility, with the exception of the higher ranks of management.

[crappogre]

More fun and games (jocund recreations) from the Word Nerd

excoriating
To tear or wear off the skin, make raw by or as if by friction; chafe; fret; irritate
To criticize harshly and devastatingly; censure strongly; denounce

inchoate
in an initial or early stage; incipient; imperfectly formed or developed; vague

proschema (plural proschemata) (adj. proschematic)
an event or occurrence giving rise to or justifying war; Casus belli

[linda]

I am in stitches reading all the comment on this subject. Personally I love reading Stuarts stuff, not only is he very eloquent, but the way he writes with such dry British humour is extremely hilarious, fortunately for me I have only had to look up the meaning of two of the words he has used along the way so far on his blog, and I am not the brain of Briton, lol, just spend a lot of time reading as well as writing.

One of my favourites to use is instead of saying that I think someone is talking a load of s**t I say they are talking a load of excrement, it means the same thing but sounds and looks so much better, lol.

We all have our funny little ways or speaking and writing, no one is perfect or at least I know I’m not.

Stuart is probably one of the few States members who could actually read out one of his speeches correctly. What would be incredibly funny would be to hear every States Member try to do this, can you imagine the hilarious pronunciations that some of them would come out with on Stuarts big words? I did Drama training and am sure I would get tongue tied myself with some of them, lol.

[crappogre]

ontologically
Re: the branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being and/or God,
what exists or what can be known.

semiotics
The theory and study of signs and symbols, especially as elements of language or other systems of communication, and comprising semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics.

[crappogre]

oooh! ooooh! I found a SSS spelling mistake at last!!!
"Decent politicians in many jurisdictions fight against deffective justice - it's part of a politician's job."

There's only one F in defective according to the online dictionary!

(Just messing about... as if it matters!)

[whiteknight]

I to like Stuart's writings but yes i would like to see him speak so as the average person will understand what he means. I think it is possible that he might just get more votes in the house because if his proposition was put forward in a very easy understanding way, the other members might just think that we should vote for this because he is right and how will the person in the street take a no vote from us. I am trying to say he can lose votes because only a few people will understand what he is saying, so if you do not understand vote against to be safe.

[whiteknight]

Linda try this one "Are you endeavouring to extract the urine from my body"


Are you trying to take the p**s out of me.

[crappogre]

"the epistemological semiotics of the prosecution’s post-modern, fluxing aporia"

Oh for freak's sake, I can't be bothered any more!

[crappogre]

eutrophic
Having waters rich in mineral and organic nutrients that promote a proliferation of plant life, especially algae, which reduces the dissolved oxygen content and often causes the extinction of other organisms. Used of a lake or pond.

Hey, does anyone come here any more?
;D