use big words whenever you can - Page 3

Glinda · 11-27-2011, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanaC

One thing that really winds me up, is when I use a word that isn't madly obscure, but which someone else hasn't come across before, and they act like I am somehow bizarre for knowing and using that word.

My sis-in-law (no great shakes in the words dept; she pronounces potpourri with a "t") once told my mother that I was "snooty" because I sometimes use words she doesn't know.

Griff · 11-27-2011, 03:18 PM

Potporri? Isn't that when you assemble a joint from the remains of several disparate ones?

Glinda · 11-27-2011, 03:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Griff

Potporri? Isn't that when you assemble a joint from the remains of several disparate ones?

EXACTLY!

Big Sarge · 11-27-2011, 04:09 PM

Don't try using the word "niggardly". Talk about getting in trouble....

zippyt · 11-27-2011, 04:18 PM

Yeah the White NAACP directer of finance got fired over that a few years ago ,
Propper use , bad judgement to use it when addressing the the Whole assembly

jimhelm · 11-27-2011, 06:42 PM

I use mitigate.

Lojack will most likely mitigate some of it's own cost with the discount you'll receive on your insurance premium....

monster · 11-27-2011, 06:46 PM

facetious

Lamplighter · 11-27-2011, 06:53 PM

A city planner told me they would have to cut down 7 old-growth (~150 yr) Douglas Firs
along our property line for a new light rail line. "But," she said sweetly,
"The City would mitigate them by planting 7 new seedlings elsewhere on our property"

Mitigate ? In my life time ? Yeah sure, that'll work.

Lamplighter · 11-27-2011, 06:55 PM

I like "disingenuous" - a polite word with a pointed tip

footfootfoot · 11-27-2011, 07:55 PM

and specious is another one, ooh and duplicitous

All exceptionally cromulent words

ZenGum · 11-28-2011, 12:58 AM

One should frequently cultivate obfuscatory sesquipedelian circumlocutions.

Trilby · 11-28-2011, 05:06 AM

man, you guys are nerds.

*applies black eyeliner*

footfootfoot · 11-28-2011, 07:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZenGum

One should frequently cultivate obfuscatory sesquipedelian circumlocutions.

The editor of our local paper has a bumper sticker that says: Eschew Obfuscation

Lamplighter · 11-28-2011, 07:51 AM

One of my daughters loves to argue.
At a dinner table one night she came up with:

"Compromise, never capitulate"

Sundae · 11-28-2011, 11:18 AM

See, that's the difference between daughters and cats.
The only thing Diz brings up at dinner is... well, dinner.

11-27-2011, 03:18 PM	#32
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Potporri? Isn't that when you assemble a joint from the remains of several disparate ones? __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

11-27-2011, 04:09 PM	#34
Big Sarge Werepandas - lurking in your shadows Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: In the Deep South Posts: 3,408	Don't try using the word "niggardly". Talk about getting in trouble.... __________________ Give a man a match, & he'll be warm for 20 seconds. But toss that man a white phosphorus grenade and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

11-27-2011, 04:18 PM	#35
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	Yeah the White NAACP directer of finance got fired over that a few years ago , Propper use , bad judgement to use it when addressing the the Whole assembly __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

11-27-2011, 06:42 PM	#36
jimhelm a beautiful fool Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 39.939705 Posts: 4,504	I use mitigate. Lojack will most likely mitigate some of it's own cost with the discount you'll receive on your insurance premium.... __________________ There's a Shadow just behind me. Shrouding every step I take. Making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me. _tool

11-27-2011, 06:46 PM	#37
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	facetious __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-27-2011, 06:53 PM	#38
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	A city planner told me they would have to cut down 7 old-growth (~150 yr) Douglas Firs along our property line for a new light rail line. "But," she said sweetly, "The City would mitigate them by planting 7 new seedlings elsewhere on our property" Mitigate ? In my life time ? Yeah sure, that'll work.

11-27-2011, 06:55 PM	#39
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	I like "disingenuous" - a polite word with a pointed tip

11-27-2011, 07:55 PM	#40
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	and specious is another one, ooh and duplicitous All exceptionally cromulent words __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

11-28-2011, 12:58 AM	#41
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	One should frequently cultivate obfuscatory sesquipedelian circumlocutions. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

11-28-2011, 05:06 AM	#42
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	man, you guys are nerds. applies black eyeliner __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

11-28-2011, 07:51 AM	#44
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	One of my daughters loves to argue. At a dinner table one night she came up with: "Compromise, never capitulate"

11-28-2011, 11:18 AM	#45
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	See, that's the difference between daughters and cats. The only thing Diz brings up at dinner is... well, dinner. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

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