Don Pardo: Use Shorter Words

Don Pardo (who was 88 at the time) demonstrates his linguistic awesomeness. An excerpt of a 2006 interview with the legendary Saturday Night Live announcer -- from the Archive of American Television.

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• Don Pardo
• Saturday Night Live
• Linguistics

[Greden85]

@Artacus or maybe Russel Brand stole it

[Newbeboy]

Understood it all the second time. Go me!

[Intrexa]

Not that I understood every word, but in the longer version, he noted the why using unnecessarily long words was prohibitive of clear communication, and gave several reasons to use simpler words.

[Artacus]

he stole that line from Russel Brand.

[teddyzed]

Sounds like Conrad Black.

[spacepatrolman]

I heard him do this in person he also has a system of memorizing every president of the united states

[medliberty]

Thats the way I've always felt about it.

[thegibbshow]

Just go back to grunting.

[mackeymkay]

This should be played to all the pompous scholarly pretentious pricks who believe they sound smarter, just because they favor longer Greek and Latin words over simple English language. I think Greek and Latin are fine, but let the dead Romans and the Greeks deal with those. Resorting to foreign (especially dead) languages to raise your register only highlights your inaptitude and ineptitude in using your own damned language. English is full of latinisms as it is.

[LivTheLife]

haha say wahhht?