@Camzing to Ask Lemmy • 10 months agoAre Donald Trumps speeches nothing but largiloquent dithyrambs?message-square17arrow-up115arrow-down143
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish16•10 months agoLargiloquent: Bombastic. Dithyramb: Ancient Greek improvised hymn about Dionysus. You were almost coherent there, but not quite.
minus-square@CamzingOPlink-2•10 months ago Dithyramb A wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing
minus-squareall-knight-partylinkfedilink2•10 months agoFunnily enough if that just translates to bombastic, enthusiastic speech it’s slightly redundant and not as descriptive of his speeches as it could be for being such flowery wording.
Largiloquent: Bombastic.
Dithyramb: Ancient Greek improvised hymn about Dionysus.
You were almost coherent there, but not quite.
A wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing
As a Greek, yes this is the modern usage of the word.
Funnily enough if that just translates to bombastic, enthusiastic speech it’s slightly redundant and not as descriptive of his speeches as it could be for being such flowery wording.