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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm in this picture and i... am ambivalent.

[–] Mango 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your specificity here isn't needless. You did the meme wrong.

[–] Wilzax 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] chetradley 20 points 1 month ago

Words with friends with benefits

[–] MutilationWave 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I both

  • do that too, and
  • can also see how it comes across as pretentious.
[–] MutilationWave 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I had a political conversation with a right-wing co-worker a while back, and he generally operated in good faith, but he got flustered and tried to do the "why do you use big/pretentious words" scold on me, and he did not handle it well when I responded "I guess home school and Liberty University didn't land you with much of a vocabulary".

[–] PriorityMotif 4 points 1 month ago

Good writers and speakers use clear and simple words. If you can't explain something to a five year old then you don't know very much about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'll clap for you, can't miss out on being part of everyone.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Holy crap, I thought I was the only one.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Consecrated fecal material, I entertained the notion that I had embarked upon this adventure without companions!

[–] _number8_ 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i like when people use big words cause then i can learn a new word. it's nice knowing words to say stuff with

[–] Caesium 3 points 1 month ago

i like using big words as an excuse to teach them!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Same energy as "your English is so good". No, I just don't know normal words.

[–] Lemminary 20 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] FauxPseudo 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"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."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sir, this is literally a Wendy's.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We were arguing about putting fries in the frosty. I was against it because it's structurally unsound.

[–] FauxPseudo 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] TheRealKuni 6 points 1 month ago

Blasphemous. Dipping fries into the Frosty improves both the fries and the Frosty.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Me go caveman mode. Talk dumb. As coping mechanism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

mek nism like many rock work together

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Sometimes boss is self. Sometimes boss is man. Sometimes boss is rock who thinks with lightning.

[–] Zexks 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My oldest bitches about me doing this constantly. ‘We haven’t learned that yet’. ‘Sorry it’s all the voices gave me’.

[–] MutilationWave 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Had a hard time changing the context to having kids versus you being an eloquent pimp.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Shit I almost choked.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

"You talk like a smart person" mate I can't remember how to talk like a normal person

[–] BluesF 12 points 1 month ago

Damn, no one ever put it into words like that but this describes me perfectly

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

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:

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

This is me for sure. XD

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's me, but also with english words instead of my native language's ones.

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[–] GreenKnight23 9 points 1 month ago

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

[–] toynbee 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

There was a Basic Instructions comic about exactly this, but unfortunately the only thing I can remember about it is that the protagonist describes someone's hair as "turgid" and "basic instructions turgid hair" isn't getting many relevant results.

Also, is "chariots chariots" related to the rest of the post or am I just oblivious?

edit: s/coming/comic

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[–] Decoy321 4 points 1 month ago

chariots chariots

Oh, good. We've got Prime Cave Johnson this time!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

you avail yourself of eloquent parlance for you cannot recall simpler vocabulary
i partake in sophisticated linguistics for it is greatly entertaining
we are not the same

[–] Aceticon 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
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