User:MArcane

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Lexiphanicism

 * I think this is the simplest way to start my page, as it explains so much about me. It may even be the underlying motivation for my Wiki tendancies!


 * Lexiphanicism


 * \Lex`i*PHAN'i*cism\ n. The use of pretentious words, language, or style.
 * Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.


 * There is a subconscious negative connotation to the term that I object to. The lexiphanacist should wear his badge with honor!

Less Abstruse Info About Me

 * I was born the son of a poor Filipino merchant. I remember I would sit on the stoop of my tenament brownstone on the lower East Side. I was...I was crying! (obscure reference)


 * Seriously, though, I currently work for a children's publisher in Manhattan. I live just across the East River in Brooklyn. I was born in the mid-seventies, so do the math if my age really interests you that much. I didn't grow up in NYC, as implied above. I'm an air force brat, so I've been all over the durned place.


 * So in short...IBM, CBS, RCA, the CIA, the FBI, the NBA, A&P, NBC, ABC, R. Crumb, and CPO Sharky. Ya see? They're all the same. And what do I think? I think if life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Good night, and may God bless! (another obscure reference...though not that obscure a reference, actually...obviously a quote from the work in progress, Robot on the Run...)