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Subject:Re: What kind of position is a polysyllabilist ? From:Writers Book Mall <steve -at- writersbookmall -dot- com> To:Lech Rzedzicki <xchaotic -at- gmail -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 4 Jan 2008 06:58:20 -0800 (PST)
It sounds like a joke. Some people use humor in their
signatures.
> I have exchanged emails with a person who seems to
> have "senior
> polysyllabilist" as a job title.
> >From the context and the word stem I derived that
> it is related to
> Technical Writin.
> Google told me it is pompous.
> Sounds very elaborate, like a person, who is able to
> pronounce
> multi-syllable words with no effort at all.
>
> Any other insights?
> Is this a method to avoid the payscale ceiling for
> Information
> Develeopers?technical Writers?
>
>
> --
> Lech Rzedzicki
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