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Holy crap, I thought I was the only one.
Consecrated fecal material, I entertained the notion that I had embarked upon this adventure without companions!
An ex once told me her mother wasn’t a fan because talking to me was like talking to a thesaurus.
Yeah, well, Donna, your daughter decided to start fucking me because I was the only person who could consistently beat her at words with friends.
Words with friends with benefits
I had a girlfriend try to make me speak differently because I embarrassed her by using big words in front of others. The company you keep eh?
I both
- do that too, and
- can also see how it comes across as pretentious.
Back then I was a mess socially. I’m still an introvert but I code switch like a pro. I only break out the big vocab with close friends who know I’m not trying to look smart.
There’s an episode of Northern Exposure where a young woman says to Ed “give me your words” in a very sexual way. It’s outrageously funny, and simultaneously insightful.
If you’ve never watched it, the writers are all about studying people, warts and all. Very thought-provoking.
Me go caveman mode. Talk dumb. As coping mechanism.
What “mek nism”?
mek nism like many rock work together
Sometimes boss is self. Sometimes boss is man. Sometimes boss is rock who thinks with lightning.
I never pontificated like that, but you’re utterly correct.
I find it inconceivable that when I stirred from my bedchamber this morning, that I would find myself with an appeal to my senses that would brighten my day.
obliged
Ty OP.
i like when people use big words cause then i can learn a new word. it’s nice knowing words to say stuff with
i like using big words as an excuse to teach them!
chariots chariots
Oh, good. We’ve got Prime Cave Johnson this time!
Damn, no one ever put it into words like that but this describes me perfectly
“This is a complex subject with a lot of subtleties. We have to choose the right words to make sure we avoid misunderstandings. Any sufficiently developed topic has a language all its own.”
Sir, this is literally a Wendy’s.
We were arguing about putting fries in the frosty. I was against it because it’s structurally unsound.
It kills the fries.
Blasphemous. Dipping fries into the Frosty improves both the fries and the Frosty.
I write a lot of fantasy, and that definitely affects my practical vocabulary. I don’t think the specificity is needless though, especially in English, this Frankenstein of cognates and loaner words. You have so many options because the human experience is so diverse and multifaceted. Clarity helps, and it makes language more beautiful, something we should all strive for
Same energy as “your English is so good”. No, I just don’t know normal words.
I just don’t know normal words.
As an ESL, I felt that in my bones. One time my boss asked me to get the pail to water the plants and my only exposure to that word had been the wailmer pail from the Pokémon games that I misremembered as a “whalepail”. It was awkward trying to explain why I was stumped.
My oldest bitches about me doing this constantly. ‘We haven’t learned that yet’. ‘Sorry it’s all the voices gave me’.
Had a hard time changing the context to having kids versus you being an eloquent pimp.
I’m commander Shepherd, and this is my favorite comment on the Lemmy verse.
Shit I almost choked.
Your kids have to tolerate it forever. Nobody said when exactly you’re supposed to stop teaching them to talk.
It’s interesting, they used to think that having a big vocabulary or knowing multiple languages delayed having Alzheimer’s. It turns out that family often first become aware that a person is developing Alzheimer’s because the person starts regularly forgetting common words, but people with big vocabularies can come up with alternatives when they can’t remember one, so their family doesn’t recognize it as early. When those people are diagnosed, they end up being further along.
Awesome, I now need to get tested for another thing
I’m in this picture and i… am ambivalent.
Your specificity here isn’t needless. You did the meme wrong.
Balderdash, the specificity employed in this context was superfluous in comparison to the minimum required for conveying his emotional response to the situation.
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It gets worse the more deviations you get away from the mean:
Scientists and other academics who often pride themselves on their rhetoric act in peculiar ways when they’re challenged on their assumptions with sources.
Normally, you’d expect the open-minded to be like: “Wow, that’s something I hadn’t considered! Thanks for expanding my intellectual horizons!”
Instead its: “You completely invalidated my work, you fuckwit! We’re going to lose funding!”
Always be kind to everyone you meet. C:
