According to Google\u2019s English dictionary provided by Oxford Languages it’s defined as “affectedly and irritatingly grand, solemn, or self-important.” For whatever reason, it appears the popularity of this word has declined drastically since the 1800s. It needs a comeback. I like etymology and this word has some lovely sounding origins. The late Latin is pomposus and the old French is pompeux. As I imagine a lovely thick accented Frenchman telling someone they are pompeux and chuckling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why is it that in the professional world you hear or have so many pompeux conversations?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was ambuscaded into a conversation and clearly, the person read a self-help book recently. Let me just say, these books are called self<\/em><\/strong>-help books but this person deemed themselves qualified to help others now. By others, I mean me. Um, most if not all of what spewed forth in a cloud of pomposus had me standing there thinking, seriously whatever self-help book you read man, burn it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m an animated talker with a bit of sass, and my inner dialogue is no different. I get through these, the fug, moments because of my inner dialogue. Honestly, I think my inner dialogue talks back to itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n — The fug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to Google\u2019s English dictionary provided by Oxford Languages it’s defined as “affectedly and irritatingly grand, solemn, or self-important.” For whatever reason, it appears the popularity of this word has declined drastically since the 1800s. It needs a comeback. I like etymology and this word has some lovely sounding origins. The late Latin is pomposus…Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}