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Knowledgability is Powerful

Continuing from yesterday, here is another annoying trend of television news reporting: attempting to sound smarter by needlessly using excessively long words.

In this clip that's been going around the web today, Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron twice uses the word "knowledgeability" where the shorter and more direct "knowledge" would have sufficed.

Or is knowledge:knowledgeability :: truth:truthiness

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