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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Globalstar Telecommunications Limited GSAT -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Noel de Leon who wrote (22044)	2/17/2001 11:20:45 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 29987

<...my attitude towards the use of polysyllabic words where a simpler one would improve clarity> Noel, hang on, you mean "...my attitude to big words where little ones would do". Sometimes words are simply pretentious and more common words would be more accurate in meaning as well as more easily understood. But as Lucy Lawless says, English is great and there are words for absolutely everything, so why not use the right one in the right place [which can be difficult since meanings often change - 'feeling gay' would be misinterpreted these days]. Yes, apostrophe is the right word, but I thought comma-thing would be more readily understood. Anyway, enough kidding around. We are going down the gurgler while we play word games. I hasten to add I am indeed an Occam's Razor fan-club member. Dehypothecated, Mqurice [I still think it's a cool word; I'd never heard of it until somebody explained it during the Great Globalstar Memorial Day Massacre. How about extorquerationate for a cool word, which means charging way too much money while holding somebody over a barrel which is what Globalstar has tried to do for a year? Perhaps when I've been saying Globalstar's minute pricing is extorquerationate, they misunderstood and thought shareholders were demanding higher minute prices.]