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My name is David Burrows and I am a freelance translator of Spanish into English. This blog contains some of my favourite words, a (mostly) amusing explanation of said words as well as some of my musings about translation. I hope you enjoy it.

Friday 23 July 2010

Inconsequentiality

From the adjective - inconsequential: not important or significant.

"No one will notice how she is standing." The guy who Photoshopped this image needs a lesson in inconsequentiality.

Everyone likes a nice long one (word, that is). Ahem, sorry to start with such trouser-based humour but it's hard to find something that is worth saying about a word that is not important or significant. Wait a minute, that's just the meaning. The word itself is a wonder of spelling and pronunciation - even though it has nineteen letters and eight syllables, it still rolls nicely off the tongue. Every syllable links beautifully into the next and there is nowhere for the tongue to stumble. This is an impressive feat considering its length and when you compare it with the correct pronunciation of a short word like February (most people don't even bother to say the first 'R' anymore).
So, despite it's meaning, I say that this word is important and deserves as many uses as we can give it.

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