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what are some words you like to use to make yourself seem smarter?

>> No.14570339

>>14570283
Cacuca

>> No.14570356

aggregate

>> No.14570369

>>14570283
Mostly math sounding terms that I can't enumerate right now.

>> No.14570370

Anent

>> No.14570374

pudenda

>> No.14570378

>>14570283
Discornfratuated

>> No.14570383

Concupiscent

>> No.14570396

>>14570283
Shit MF DOOM was white? Mandela effect! Bruh moment

>> No.14570409

>>14570283
>what are some words you like to use to make yourself seem smarter?
This is the ultimate pseud maneuver.

>> No.14570416

using "upset" in place of "sad" for the most part

>> No.14570420

>>14570416
Upset is a totally normal word? Maybe "agitated" is a bit more verbose.

>> No.14570433

>>14570283
didactic

>> No.14570441

>>14570283
Decorum
Unctuous
Proverbial

>> No.14570456

>>14570283
arborescent
rhizomatic

>> No.14570477 [DELETED] 

If you wanna look really smart next time you're near Martin Luther King Jr. Street just yell nigger

>> No.14570494

>>14570420
>he became upset when his toy car broke
as opposed to
>he became sad when his toy car broke
it's very minor, obviously, but in the context of a whole piece it makes a world of difference in making you sound much more mature and intelligent, i've found. this was also something i figured out when i was very young so i suppose it is fairly tame compared to other examples in this thread but it was the first example i could think of on the spot

>> No.14570524

chair

>> No.14570528

>>14570283
Pee poo poo pee

>> No.14570534

>>14570283
'Johnson' instead of penis

>> No.14570543

>>14570416
"I'M UPSET."
louder!
"!!!!!!!AHMUPSET!!!!!!!"

>> No.14571652

I don’t intentionally choose words that make me sound like a pseud. For some reason, though, people seem to find using ”banal” highbrow. Also, sorry for ESL.

>> No.14571690

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

>> No.14571696

>>14570283
I try to affect simplistic prose so others think I'm smart but humble, reading things into my words that I never intended. Only works on midwits like myself.

>> No.14571697

>>14570456
based and Deleuze-pilled.
In the vein of Deleuze just read Post Structuralist stuff and put "hyper" or "pseudo" infront of normal words and it works well

>> No.14571707

Nigger.

>> No.14571747

>>14571707
based

>> No.14571750

>>14570283
Grandeur

>> No.14571761

>>14570283
cloaca

>> No.14571771

>>14570283
Replacing:

Very thirsty with parched.
Very poor with destitute.
Very warm with blistering.

Etc.

>> No.14571788

instead of table i say tabula

>> No.14571827

>>14570283
none, i don't like seeming smart

>> No.14571851

Vituperative

>> No.14572036

>>14570283
defenestration

>> No.14572147

eldritch
antiqu
cyclopean
non euclidean
shub niggurath

>> No.14572157

>>14570283
>sanguine
>ontologically
>manner

>> No.14572163

>>14571707
Negroe

>> No.14572182

>per say
>contrary to popular belief
>person of color

>> No.14572191

>>14570283
Based, nigger, zoomer, retard, leftist, cuck, asshole, redpilled, sneed, boomer, dalliance, kike

>> No.14572719
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14572719

>Furthermore

>> No.14572788

>Ergo
>Raison d'etre

>> No.14573507

>>14570283
all the different hapses
perhaps, mayhaps.... the list goes on.

>> No.14573521

>>14570383
kek, I use concupiscence fantasmagorique in french, it's infinitely pretentious

>> No.14573530

>>14570283
Copulation

>> No.14574027

>> No.14574156

>>14570283
perhaps

>>14573507
count me in

>> No.14574202

>>14570283
It behoves one to appear dummer itd&a fwiw

>> No.14574214

>Pardon

Sounds more complicated than sorry but means as little

>> No.14574864

niggardly

>> No.14575429

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

>> No.14575471
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14575471

>>14570283
discombobulated
deranerated
bojangled
phalanges
dagglefuck

>> No.14575522

>>14570356
refuted by Shankara

>> No.14575681

Relative and Perhaps
>Thats a relative term
>Perhaps you should consider (point) instead