use big words whenever you can

[Sundae]

Hmmmmm.
I resemble this remark.

I admire people who ask me what a word means. A teacher asked me what obsequious meant earlier this year. She thought it was a great word. And in fact I had asked a teacher what it meant when I was 15 - and I remember it precisely because it was in a poem I wanted to read for my English Lit oral assessment. Although I've come across it since.

The flip side is I've sometimes been asked to "speak English!" when I've used a word I assume is in common usage, not something obscure only a crossword or Scrabble fan would know. I am speaking English. I just know more of it than you do.

Of course I never say that. But the inverse snobbery does put me in my place.
Which is why I adored this place ever since I fell through the rabbit-hole.

You might have meant something else entirely, Jim. or more likely been in a situation where your comment is justified.
You're no slouch on the vocab front after all.

I just have a large portion of fries on my shoulder.