Today’s word of the day at Dictionary.com is “blatherskite”, which sounds like a particularly nasty creature encountered by Alice while traversing the shadier neighborhoods of Wonderland, but actually means “a person given to voluble, empty talk”. And I bet all this time you did not know there was a fancy, highly literary word for a bullshitter. And it makes sense. After all, “blather” is, in fact, a more family-friendly word for bullshit, as you surely knew.

…you didn’t know, did you? Sure you did.

Now, a “skite” is, among other things, a person whose opinions are not taken seriously. Yes, very much like me. I realize that, thank you. Otherwise I would be writing this from the offices of the New York Times. But, moving on. This means that for someone to qualify as a blatherskite, he or she must not only be prone to producing verbally large volumes of bullshit, but must also not be taken seriously by a significant amount of people.

This can make it difficult to apply the label to someone simply based on the lack of supporting evidence backing up the pointless blather. Furthermore, there seems to be no clear consensus among academic vocabulary experts whose existence I am clearly fabricating out of thin air, regarding the exact amount of people that must take you seriously before you cease to be a blatherskite and become a Fox News anchor.

I shall keep you updated on developments.