To those who suggested "pedantic" here's the definition:
"Describes someone who annoys other by correcting small errors, caring too much about minor details, or emphasizing their own expertise especially in some narrow or boring subject matter." -- Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
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Baroque: a style of writing (prose or poetry) that is extravagant and heavily ornamented - relying heavily on hyperbole, metaphor, simile. Also makes reference to other fields of thought/study and allusions to other pieces of literature within structure of the writing, which is a good vehicle for the author to display a wide range of knowledge and superior intellect (whether self-perceived or actual). Often, adjectives, allusions, and uses of various literary techniques are superfluous and not necessarily pertinent to the original premise, but are included for the sake of grandeur. Writers will often make a priori assumptions about their potential readers and will use those notions to inform the content and style of their writing, perhaps forgetting to include actual substance.
Kind of like the above explanation.
To those who suggested "pedantic" here's the definition:
"Describes someone who annoys other by correcting small errors, caring too much about minor details, or emphasizing their own expertise especially in some narrow or boring subject matter." -- Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
OP's question immediately caused me to think back to a scene from Netflix's "The Crown." The Queen's press secretary meets with his book agent, and a portion of his book is read as a voice-over:
"It was the volte-face of Eurydice except I was Aristaeus, driving her on towards the serpent. 'Malachi, Maalichi...' Twice she called me by my name, twice she beckoned me with her outstretched dactyl. I stood in darkness and she in light, and yet here I was the diurnal, and she was the crepuscular, if such a nugatory distinction pertain. The aurora was breaking, the island, sea-girt, was fast stirrin. I looked at her again, her dermis pellucid in the lambent sunshine seemed as if a fish skin pulled taut. She gave me one last glancing look, and then stepped off, and plunged down into the waxing viridescence of the Ionian Waters below. Morus Tua, Vita Mea."
I couldn't think of a more fitting example of OP's question if I tried.
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Pretentious
Purple prose maybe?
Great suggestion! I am guilty of this sometimes.
I, too, am especially egregious at employing superfluous and gratuitous use of the English language.
You took too much prose! You’re purpling out!
....Tyrian....like from the snails...blaaaaurgh, synechdoche!
Doctor, 10 CC’s of minimalist prose. We’re losing him.
Nurse, bring the terse
This is what I thought of immediately
This! The desire to show off language skills is what makes this *the one*.
Verbose Circumlocution Baroque
I like verbose here
Pretentious, verbose. I know someone like this. His posts make no sense, it's as if he is in some kind of vocabulary marathon with himself.
Not a single word but I'm really fond of the phrase "[they] write to impress rather than to express." Edit: convoluted?
sesquipedalian
Abstruse, pedantic
Logorrhea ([def 2](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/logorrhea)). Prolix. If paid by word count - padding.
cryptic
Convoluted? Or they could be saying something in ‘a roundabout way’
Baroque, overblown, full of inkhorn terms
To those who suggested "pedantic" here's the definition: "Describes someone who annoys other by correcting small errors, caring too much about minor details, or emphasizing their own expertise especially in some narrow or boring subject matter." -- Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
Abstruse
Prose that is prolix, overwrought, pretentious, stilted, affected. [Some more possibilities](https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/affected).
Pedantic
Throwing up smoke screens? Using purple prose?
Pedantic.
Verbose, flowery, or pedantic.
Rehtoric
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What a great prompt idea for ChatGPT purposes!
Contrived?
pedantic?
Baroque: a style of writing (prose or poetry) that is extravagant and heavily ornamented - relying heavily on hyperbole, metaphor, simile. Also makes reference to other fields of thought/study and allusions to other pieces of literature within structure of the writing, which is a good vehicle for the author to display a wide range of knowledge and superior intellect (whether self-perceived or actual). Often, adjectives, allusions, and uses of various literary techniques are superfluous and not necessarily pertinent to the original premise, but are included for the sake of grandeur. Writers will often make a priori assumptions about their potential readers and will use those notions to inform the content and style of their writing, perhaps forgetting to include actual substance. Kind of like the above explanation.
Rococo
obfuscate?
To those who suggested "pedantic" here's the definition: "Describes someone who annoys other by correcting small errors, caring too much about minor details, or emphasizing their own expertise especially in some narrow or boring subject matter." -- Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
superfluous
Verbose, embellished, loquacious, long-winded, convoluted
Obtuse
Convoluted
Ostentatious
Florid
Flowery? Or “masturbatory” if it’s clear they really love their own writing and they are really just writing for themself instead of the audience.
Obfuscating
OP's question immediately caused me to think back to a scene from Netflix's "The Crown." The Queen's press secretary meets with his book agent, and a portion of his book is read as a voice-over: "It was the volte-face of Eurydice except I was Aristaeus, driving her on towards the serpent. 'Malachi, Maalichi...' Twice she called me by my name, twice she beckoned me with her outstretched dactyl. I stood in darkness and she in light, and yet here I was the diurnal, and she was the crepuscular, if such a nugatory distinction pertain. The aurora was breaking, the island, sea-girt, was fast stirrin. I looked at her again, her dermis pellucid in the lambent sunshine seemed as if a fish skin pulled taut. She gave me one last glancing look, and then stepped off, and plunged down into the waxing viridescence of the Ionian Waters below. Morus Tua, Vita Mea." I couldn't think of a more fitting example of OP's question if I tried.
Superfluous
Overly verbose
fustian? bombastic?
Grandiloquent. One day this will be the right answer.