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An unusual method for avoiding a gap in your résumé

Social networking can keep friends and acquaintances in touch with your career, but Feedback isn't sure how to feel about a cryptocurrency mogul's latest job update

6 November 2024

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Josie Ford

Hyperverbosity

Despite blowing past the word count, last week’s column came in 15 lines too short, according to the editor. The only explanation we could find is that Feedback didn’t use enough long words.

So, this week we are performing sesquipedalianism. Some readers may, unimaginatively, think this is pointless, but such beliefs are incomprehensibilities and those people are engaged in flagrant floccinaucinihipilification. We might even win a prize for using so many long words, which would mean that Feedback is in the state of honorificabilitudinitatibus.

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