The stop using "big words" comeback

Adamantium

Anyone find that if your having a heated conversation and then they drop this in. As for the big word in question it was "absurd". I really thought it was fairly commonly used. It was the right word for the situation, not another one.

What other words have you found that are off limits?
Its surely the most irritating thing when people get their backs up rather than get the message of what you said (which they did or they wouldn't have snapped in the way they did)

Jawgap

Adamantium wrote: »

Anyone find that if your having a heated conversation and then they drop this in. As for the big word in question it was "absurd". I really thought it was fairly commonly used. It was the right word for the situation, not another one.

What other words have you found that are off limits?

Shinnerbot!

Renegade Mechanic

Strawman!

irish coldplayer

sheeple!

ygolometsipe

smiles is a big word.

There's a mile between the two 's'

endacl

Binglibongliboop!

dxhound2005

Constantinople is a very big word and if you cannot spell it you're a very big dunce!

It

Sir Osis of Liver.

I hate the way the Yanks change the spelling of our words by dropping the letter "U",words like colour and honour.

What a bnch of stpid fcking cnts.

anncoates

Anybody that retorts with some crack about a thesaurus or big words can just be safely dismissed as a retard. In a way, it's handy because they flag that early on in your interactions with them and you can ignore them in the future.

IrishTrajan

Adamantium wrote: »

Anyone find that if your having a heated conversation and then they drop this in. As for the big word in question it was "absurd". I really thought it was fairly commonly used. It was the right word for the situation, not another one.

What other words have you found that are off limits?
Its surely the most irritating thing when people get their backs up rather than get the message of what you said (which they did or they wouldn't have snapped in the way they did)

It's anti-intellectualism. I just laugh and mock their intelligence. Works a charm.

JohnnyChimpo

If somebody says that to you, you should probably draw a line under the argument right there, it's not going anywhere. And maybe consider never talking to them again.

Karl Stein

Don't be a sesquipedalian talker, as you will rapidly lose your audience.

Titzon Toast

anncoates wrote: »

Anybody that retorts with some crack about a thesaurus or big words can just be safely dismissed as a retard. In a way, it's handy because they flag that early on in your interactions with them and you can ignore them in the future.

What's another word for thesaurus?







I'll get my coat...

Adamantium

JohnnyChimpo wrote: »

If somebody says that to you, you should probably draw a line under the argument right there, it's not going anywhere. And maybe consider never talking to them again.

Family, unfortunately.

qt3.14

I think you meant retort, OP.

Dog of Tears

Adamantium wrote: »

Family, unfortunately.

Too big.
'Alas' is better.

Adamantium

qt3.14 wrote: »

I think you meant retort, OP.

I had actually used that word in the OP, but then realised that AH would slaughter me for the irony of putting it in a post using big words, so I errd on the side of caution.

We'll never know how much ridicule I could have suffered!

dxhound2005

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

I hate the way the Yanks change the spelling of our words by dropping the letter "U",words like colour and honour.

What a bnch of stpid fcking cnts.

"our" words???

That happened hundreds of years ago, time to get over it. And at least the Americans are being consistent, the Brits only dopped the U in some cases.

Johnson's 1755 dictionary used -our for all words still so spelled in Britain (like colour), but also for words where the u has since been dropped: ambassadour, emperour, governour, perturbatour, inferiour, superiour; errour, horrour, mirrour, tenour, terrour, tremour

qt3.14

dxhound2005 wrote: »

"our" words???

That happened hundreds of years ago, time to get over it. And at least the Americans are being consistent, the Brits only dopped the U in some cases.

Johnson's 1755 dictionary used -our for all words still so spelled in Britain (like colour), but also for words where the u has since been dropped: ambassadour, emperour, governour, perturbatour, inferiour, superiour; errour, horrour, mirrour, tenour, terrour, tremour

Motherfcker! I knew I was right back in school!

I was once giving directions to a friend on how to get to a town, I said that he could drive via Colchester to get there.

"Stop using big words" he said.

via ???? its only got three letters???

Billy86

Absurd is a perfectly cromulant word, I fail to see the issue here.

AnonoBoy

qt3.14 wrote: »

I think you meant retort, OP.

You shouldn't call people retorts.

The proper nomenclature is mentally challenged.

Sir Osis of Liver.

dxhound2005 wrote: »

"our" words???

That happened hundreds of years ago, time to get over it. And at least the Americans are being consistent, the Brits only dopped the U in some cases.

Johnson's 1755 dictionary used -our for all words still so spelled in Britain (like colour), but also for words where the u has since been dropped: ambassadour, emperour, governour, perturbatour, inferiour, superiour; errour, horrour, mirrour, tenour, terrour, tremour

Masterbatour?

endacl

Titzon Toast wrote: »

What's another word for thesaurus?







I'll get my coat...

Onomasticon. What's another word for coat?

kneemos

Disestablishmentarianism.

Now that's a word.

AnonoBoy

kneemos wrote: »

Now that's a word.

That is a word.

These, those and there are also words.

As is also, are and words.

All words.

As indeed are all words.

dxhound2005

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Masterbatour?

Onanist?

kneemos

kneemos wrote: »

Disestablishmentarianism.

Now that's a word.

Antidisestablishmentarianism is another one

kneemos

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Antidisestablishmentarianism is another one

Touche.

Frito

Deleted User wrote: »

Antidisestablishmentarianism is another one

Semi-quasi-pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism.

Yes, really!

melissak

Billy86 wrote: »

Absurd is a perfectly cromulant word, I fail to see the issue here.

I agree. Perfectly cromulant.
:-)

AnonoBoy

Deleted User wrote: »

Antidisestablishmentarianism is another one

Unceasingly the contrarian.

Frito

Frito wrote: »

Semi-quasi-pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism.

Yes, really!

Semi-quasi-pseudoantidisestablishmentarianismist :pac:

Frito

Deleted User wrote: »

Semi-quasi-pseudoantidisestablishmentarianismist :pac:

Semi-quasi-pseudoantidisestablishmentarianismist-esque.

I may have made this up.

Golaco

"Capricious" seems to be all the rage lately.... can't think why!

endacl

AnonoBoy wrote: »

That is a word.

These, those and there are also words.

As is also, are and words.

All words.

As indeed are all words.

Word!

endacl

Frito wrote: »

Semi-quasi-pseudoantidisestablishmentarianismist-esque.

I may have made this up.

Semi-quasi-pseudoantidisestablishmentarianismistomatoketchup-esque.

:cool:

Frito

endacl wrote: »

Semi-quasi-pseudoantidisestablishmentarianismistomatoketchup-esque.

:cool:

We'll have less of your sauce, thankyouverymuch.

Einhard

Deleted User wrote: »

I was once giving directions to a friend on how to get to a town, I said that he could drive via Colchester to get there.

"Stop using big words" he said.

via ???? its only got three letters???

Maybe he was talking abut Colchester? It has 10 letters, in fairness.




Mr fuppin fancy pants college professor!!

Baby Jane

Viewing "absurd" and "via" as long words is some real "Whatcha readin' for?" stuff.

However I don't like clunky use of flowery language when "plainer" English will suffice. My dad does that (he's an engineer, which engineers are apparently as notorious for as doctors are for terrible handwriting) and gets me to type up documents for him; it doesn't read well at all.

But I agree, self dumbing down (which seems to be in fashion - notice the way some people don't use future tense "will" or conditional "would" any more in writing? E.g. "He be delighted") is very off-putting too.

NachoBusiness

anncoates wrote: »

Anybody that retorts with some crack about a thesaurus or big words can just be safely dismissed as a retard. In a way, it's handy because they flag that early on in your interactions with them and you can ignore them in the future.

Anyone that uses the word retard needs a thesaurus tbh.

Rosie Rant

Floccinaucinihilipilification!! A great word .

Frito

Rosie Rant wrote: »

Floccinaucinihilipilification!! A great word .

It's rubbish.

anncoates

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Anyone that uses the word retard needs a thesaurus tbh.

Which one are you again? One tends to lose track.

irish coldplayer

Contrafibularity

whupdedo

Facetious, I find when you throw the word facetious out , your inexplicably called a wanker shortly after

Harry Palmr

whupdedo wrote: »

Facetious, I find when you throw the word facetious out , your inexplicably called a wanker shortly after

Its spelt you're. I'm not being fallacious either.

whupdedo

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Its spelt you're. I'm not being fallacious either.

God damn you harry palmr :mad::D

bnt

It's double annoying when someone does it on the Internet. Um ... dude ... you're on the Internet. Just Google the word. You might learn something.

KomradeBishop

Yea it's just a part of 'Internet twattery 101' - when the aim of your posts is just to troll, block/control a debate, or antagonize, just maintain only a pretence of actual debate and regularly dip into condescension - the excuse can be 'big words', "holding views 'x' that I don't like", or whatever...

Loads of posters do it and it's an accepted posting standard (so long as you can skirt or toe the line that'd trigger mod action - or if you can do it in numbers large enough to legitimize it, which is probably why it's so common on some topics), and this is just one more blatant form of it.

Aceandstuff

I had an argument where I was mocked by a girl for using the word "sarcasm." She honestly had no idea what it meant, and her friends were happy to laugh at me for being "a freak."