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Rosenbaum does pursue this theme--Hitler as a self-styled genius who painted not on canvases but on others' minds--but in the end he favors the more recondite picture of Hitler as diabolical comedian.
’ In other words, memorizing a slew of arcane, recondite sesquipedalianisms is not what gives one the edge, it is knowing how to use the language one already possesses.
Reviewers praise Nasar for her clear explications of recondite subjects and marvel at the bizarre details of Nash's disease (he rejected a tenure offer because he believed he was about to become emperor of Antarctica).
Green is correct in writing that the (unabridged Funk & Wagnalls) Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1893) gives two pronunciations for each entry, but he is mistaken in reporting that one represents the popular pronunciation, the other showing the precise one [p.364]: there are two pronunciations because one employs a more popular, presumably understandable pronunciation key (called, in the phonetics trade, a broad transcription) while the other cleaves to a scholarly transcription (called a narrow transcription); if such a pattern were followed today, the first would be the simplified system used generally in most dictionaries and the second would employ the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (which, for their more recondite transcriptions, require a trained phonetician for their understanding).
The linguists who write books seem invariably to be scholars who are touting their own points of view, some of which are recondite, to say the least.
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