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>Uses big words to impress others to make his point appear grandiose and complicated but when broken down is actually easy to understand

>> No.12301955

Everyone has been guilty of this at some point

>> No.12301977

>>12301955
>Everyone has been guilty of this at some point
way to out yourself

>> No.12301988

>>12301977
How am I outing myself? Please explain

>> No.12301992
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>>12301955
>Everyone has been guilty of this at some point
>everyone
>guilty
>some point
>not just saying "We do this"
hmmm

>> No.12301994
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>> No.12302008

>>12301994
Are you trying to have a go at this "meme" thing, grandpa?

>> No.12302009

>>12301992
>hmmm
>not just saying
>no just say "hm"
hm

>> No.12302013

>>12301992
I should of clarified what I meant by “big words”

>> No.12302016

>>12302009
>hm
>not just
>

>> No.12302022

>>12302016
>

>> No.12302052
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>>12301977
I know this post will get a lot of replies saying “haha bro not me, you’re just a retard”, but I actually used to do this. When I was 15 and read Blood Meridian and Moby Dick, among others, I memorized the words I didn’t know from those books and used them in normal conversation all the time. I would say harangued instead of harassed or say dragooned instead of coerced. People would laugh at me behind my back. I think it’s also a reason my gf at the time left me.
I remember one one calling a grassland a chaparral and a dried up creek an arroyo and getting laughed at to my face by my gf. It was more of a soft giggle but I knew why she was laughing

>> No.12302056

>>12302052
Meant to reply to >>12301955

>> No.12302063

>>12302022

>> No.12302068
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>>12302052
Damn sorry about that anon

>> No.12302074

>>12302052
haha bro not me, you’re just a retard

>> No.12302141

>>12302052
>I memorized the words I didn’t know from those books and used them in normal conversation all the time
Utterly embarrassing. Could be worse, there are hipsters doing the same in their thirties.

>> No.12302146

12302063

>> No.12302168

>>12302052
Reading this just made me wish I'd ever had a gf to giggle at my pseudness

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>>12302052
Lol i do this all the time. If you're openly self-aware people laugh with rather than at you. Either way there's nothing wrong with making people laugh. It's better to laugh than be indifferent all the time. The sound of women and children laughing is one of the few simple things I have left to enjoy in this world, even if it's at my own expense.

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>>12302546
>The sound of women and children laughing is one of the few simple things I have left to enjoy in this world, even if it's at my own expense.
unexpected feels thread

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>Using bigger/lesser used words to write sentences for stylistic reasons but being so insecure and small brained that you think the writer is only trying to be a pretentious douche.

>> No.12302987

>>12301935
this post is tldr of the entire western philosophy

>> No.12303030

>>12302052
The only time I read something in my native language nowadays is for university and thus mostly texts written in academic jargon ridden with a lot of big words. This vastly colors off on the way I speak and makes me use fancy synonyms instead of the normal and easy alternative because it's just more salient to me. I really hate this. I feel much more comfortable and natural speaking and writing in English at this point where my vocabulary is much more limited.

>> No.12303052

>>12302052
>>12302141
i dont get it, why would that be bad or shameful
>>12302546
this
>>12302168
this so fucking much

>> No.12303062

>>12302052
this is cool though

>> No.12303095

>>12302546
this, but applied to me jerking off on omegle

>> No.12303104

>>12303095
i usually jerk off to reactions of girls' faces pleasuring themselves
sometimes i think im a faggot and lack testosterone

>> No.12303344

>>12303095
kek

>> No.12303361

>>12303104
you do you beta faggot
patrician taste: sissified forced bi

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>>12301935
Intelligent individual.

>> No.12303544

>>12303030
>it's just more salient to me
That's not even a proper use of salient, and is as such as salient example of the manner in which you presumably regularly publicly embarrass yourself.

>> No.12303574

>>12301935
TO BE HONESTO I got rid of most of my friends because I use big words they don’t understand and I don’t have time for them to catch up

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>>12303574

>> No.12303646

Half of the language will disappear if enough people have this sort of anxiety.

>> No.12303674

>>12303544
No, my German is flawless, it's not about embarrassing myself, rather about not sounding like a normal human being. Why is salient used wrongly here, though? I thought it means that something is more easily accessible to your consciousness than other things.

>> No.12303683

>>12303544
>google "salient to me"
>nearly half the results on the first page are from contemporary works of philosophy
i think you're on to something

>> No.12304637

>>12302052
I think that's a cute childhood memory to be honest, nice but a little embarrassing.

>> No.12304649

>>12301935
>Uses big words to impress others to make his point appear grandiose and complicated but when broken down is actually easy to understand
Isn't this the business model of English academics?

>> No.12304660

>>12301994
Not bad desu

>> No.12304679

this but with latin and french

>> No.12304682

>tfw everything I write comes across as pretentious without me trying

>> No.12304688

>>12303361
that’s just masculine homosexuality, i mean you do you anon

>> No.12304716

>>12301935
I find it extremely difficult to speak without doing this. I try to suppress it but I just come across as a stuttering retard.

>> No.12304723

>>12301935
>>12301977
>>12302141
>>12302987
>>12303544
>>12304637
>>12304649
Vocabulets

>> No.12304726

46

>> No.12304811

>>12304723
Except that readability (being understood) is way more important to success than having a wide vocabulary.

Speaking at a 5th grade level is part of what got Donald Trump elected. It's why Stephen King and J.K. Rowling are successful. It's why accessible plain English writing is an important trend in governments across the world.

You are a pleb if you think having a big brain vocabulary makes you elite. Pretending you have status is not the same as actually influencing others.

>> No.12304816

>>12304811
>Appeal to popularity

>> No.12304865

>>12304816
Then, of course, there are people who refuse to understand or intentionally strawman.

I clearly said that it's about influencing others, and being successful. Popularity is just one possible result. It doesn't matter where you apply it- communicating clearly and simply makes you more influential. It helps you achieve your goals.

This guy >>12304723 is dumb. Using complicated vocabulary and jargon is only coincidentally a signal of status. Complex and unusual language is sometimes needed to describe things, and becomes associated with professional and academic expertise.

But it is actually stupid to use complex vocabulary when simpler vocabulary works just fine. One reason people do it is to increase the exclusivity of their club and pretend they have higher status by simply creating a barrier to entry - an etiquette and language community - that group members know and outsiders don't. This is what English academics do. They are the last people on earth who should be using impenetrable language.

>> No.12304909

6

>> No.12305052

>>12304811
>>12304865
I didn't read any of this. If you want to make a point, try to make it concisely. Waffling on does not make you intelligent. In fact, it makes you come across as a bit of a pseud.

>> No.12305261

>>12301935
>do this but unintentionally
>feel like a massive faggot whenever i talk
how stop the big boy smart talk?

>> No.12305268

>>12302052
You were 15 so it's forgivable. still cringe tho

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>>12301935

>> No.12305298

>>12301935
A healthy vocabulary involves effort and knowledge. Being accurate and precise, goofy and ill-suited or perhaps even tad mysterious, all on the whims of the speaker and the power of the audience.

>> No.12305822

>>12302013
Should have. Have is not too big a word

>> No.12306564

>>12301935
I use
>allegedly
>presumably
>axiomatic
>intrinsic
all the time because I unironically think it makes me sound smart.
I pretty sure I dont think I use the words properly though, I mostly awkwardly insert them randomly in whatever I'm saying