From a post in a DP forum, a user notes:
A footnote in Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 1, commenting on a letter by a 15th-century Italian:
“Though pruned of not a few redundant particles which obscure the original, this letter proves that even before Spanish fashion had elaborated feebly magniloquent expletives, the Italian style was justly chargeable with verbiage.”
Is this the pot calling the kettle black, or what?
I wonder what a “feebly magniloquent expletive” looks like?
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Balderdash!
So, is that a “feebly magniloquent expletive” or a comment on what one looks like after it’s been said?
Got any more examples?