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11-25-2011, 11:08 AM | #1 |
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use big words whenever you can
coz it makes you sound smarter.
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11-25-2011, 11:11 AM | #2 |
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Zat so ??
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11-25-2011, 11:13 AM | #3 |
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dodally
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11-25-2011, 11:17 AM | #4 |
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Diddly Do !!
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11-25-2011, 11:17 AM | #5 |
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Yes, people should talk dumb and pretend to have a very limited vocabulary so as not to make the truly dumb actually look dumb.
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11-25-2011, 11:28 AM | #6 |
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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.
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11-25-2011, 11:29 AM | #7 |
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I will not!
I won't I shall not I shan't I just said, 'For the nonce' to a customer, and he understood it. I was pleased. Now, nonce is NOT a big word....but it comes from the same place as more embiggened words, so I'm counting it. Mayhaps, what I really meant was talk like Shakespeare...
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11-25-2011, 11:30 AM | #8 |
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Huh. Whut'd ya say? Thems too many werds.
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11-25-2011, 11:31 AM | #9 |
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contrarian~!!
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11-25-2011, 11:31 AM | #10 |
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Okay.
You have me combobulated now.
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11-25-2011, 11:33 AM | #11 |
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Conan the contrarian.
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11-25-2011, 11:33 AM | #12 |
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Shakespeare Jim ,
Oh Lord is the world ready for that ???
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11-25-2011, 11:34 AM | #14 |
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Ah, there's the rub a dub dub.
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11-25-2011, 11:35 AM | #15 |
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