HI, I am having a little problem looking for an accurate big words for catching people's attention. Any comment?

wow! sorry but this is no fool.. I thought this is for professional site

Read newspapers and consult dictionary. These are the good ways to learn big words

It was no joke. Sex­millia­quingent­sexagint­illion is a real word, and quite big in many ways. Seen it in some page concerning long English words.

What kind of attention do you mean and what kind of big words?

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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

HEPATICO­CHOLANGIO­CHOLECYST­ENTERO­STOMIES!!!!!!!( = a surgical creation of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder.)
This is the longest word in Gould's Medical Dictionary. Try shouting that at a taxi driver and watch it screech to a halt.

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"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon" Suzanne Ertz

It was no joke. Sex­millia­quingent­sexagint­illion is a real word, and quite big in many ways. Seen it in some page concerning long English words.

What kind of attention do you mean and what kind of big words?

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not that attention when you are a sale person, either in an adultry committed but in a peace of mind. Like a speech, or your kindness, or just by you personality. Like those inspirational people , or the famous celebrity.

From wiki:

Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­parao­melito­katakechy­meno­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tragano­pterygon is a fictional dish mentioned in Aristophanes' comedy Assemblywomen.

John Horton Conway and Landon Curt Noll developed an open-ended system for naming powers of 10, in which one sexmilliaquingentsexagintillion, coming from the Latin name for 6560, is the name for 10^(3(6560+1)) = 10^19683. Under the long number scale, it would be 10^(6(6560)) = 10^39360.

The chemical name of Titin, the largest known protein, apparently has 189,891 letters.

Fully agree with Romany.
Although not my native tongue, I have spoken for audiences mainly in Eastern Europe and former Soviet countries in English. Always with an interpretor for simultaneous translation, meaning I had to slow down my speech and avoid intricate grammar and 3-syllable-words.
If any, the "big words" were the simplicity in which to express (my subject) democratic control of armed forces and evaluation of government budget.

Presidents of the USA are most remembered for their "big words" and ... what a flight "Yes we can" takes and what a dive "read my lips" has taken.

In my experience ones first words do the trick, and those words should communicate or reflect what you observe from your audience at that instant. Are they bored, sleepy, restless, chattering? Usually in a conference setting, all of the above.

How does a street- or market salesperson captivate the public's attention?

What worked for me most of the time was:

(1) find a common ground with the audience (I'm bored, sleepy as well / Remember when you were a kid / Don't you agree this coffee here isn't what you paid for / etc.)

(2) deny your subject (I'm not here to talk about / This conference isn't about / I just threw away my notes / etc.)

(3) totally dissociate the audience and then re-associate them; this is done by a joke of some sort or a trick question - let me give an example:

When my audience was anything but in quiet undivided anticipation, I opened with the words:

" Elephants crap.
It's big, really big. An accomplishment you or me couldn't deliver.
And it's hot. Man, it's steaming.
And it took a really long time to make too.
It's contents come from many different places over long distances and have been carried around a huge area.
But now it's there.
Elephants crap.
And the elephant ... he just walks away from it like nothing happened and goes about his usual business again."

This metaphor can be used for almost any subject a conference may be about, which is usually some discovery/development/invention/product/policy that's about to be sold as the "best thing since sliced bread".


Does this help? Is this of any use for anybody here?

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