Apie iškalbos ydą – tuštumą
On vanity, a vice of eloquence

Summary/Abstract: The authors of present-day textbooks in rhetoric and stylistics often discuss vices of brevity; they also mention irrelevant verbiage, which is often treated much narrower, often at the level of lexical semantics and grammar, and includes pleonasms, tautologies, bywords, an excessive use of the so-called parasitic words and parenthetical phrases, pronouns, deverbal nouns and participial attributes. A. Baranauskas and K. Jaunius in their works mention the vanity of style; however, it is different from irrelevant verbiage. The vanity of style is a broader concept including all levels of language culture, and the ethics is not the least important among them. Politicians, people in high-ranking positions, TV presenters, advertisers, who often use abstract but meaningless words, manipulate the language, should learn from the first Lithuanian rhetoricians.

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