While this may be amusing, in fact it could have been taken from a university faculty’s handbook for linguistic standards. (Which is all the funnier when they used “contemporary” when in fact they should have used “contemporaneous” for extra-special orotundity and opacity.)
And above all, eschew obfuscation.
Eschew Obfuscatory Sesquipedalianism
aka Rule #24 of “Rules for Using English Good”
Eschew Obfuscatory Sesquipedalianism.
AKA, Don’t use confusingly big words.
Eschew surplusage
– Mark Twain
Omit, leave out, excise, remove, needless, extra, superfluous, useless, words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs. Rule #23 of “Rules for Using English Good.”
This is amusing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
To me anyway.
I enjoyed it too, and afterwards I enjoyed a couple of hours of Brendan Kavanaugh with various people and a piano in an airport concourse. https://youtu.be/A99sZ0ngd_U
“Contemporary” refers to the present. “Contemporaneous” means that thing A is from the same time as thing B. For example, my Pet Rock is contemporaneous with my Mood Ring. But neither of them is contemporary by any stretch of the imagination.