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The stop using "big words" comeback

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    #32
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Antidisestablishmentarianism is another one ;)

    Unceasingly the contrarian.


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    #33
    [Deleted User]
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    Frito wrote: »
    Semi-quasi-pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism.

    Yes, really!
    Semi-quasi-pseudoantidisestablishmentarianismist :pac:


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    #34
    Frito
    Registered Users Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Frito


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Semi-quasi-pseudoantidisestablishmentarianismist :pac:

    Semi-quasi-pseudoantidisestablishmentarianismist-esque.

    I may have made this up.


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    #35
    Golaco
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭Golaco


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


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    #36
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,233 ✭✭✭✭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! :D



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    #37
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,233 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Frito wrote: »
    Semi-quasi-pseudoantidisestablishmentarianismist-esque.

    I may have made this up.

    Semi-quasi-pseudoantidisestablishmentarianismistomatoketchup-esque.

    :cool:


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    #38
    Frito
    Registered Users Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Frito


    endacl wrote: »
    Semi-quasi-pseudoantidisestablishmentarianismistomatoketchup-esque.

    :cool:

    We'll have less of your sauce, thankyouverymuch.


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    #39
    Einhard
    Registered Users Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭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!!


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    #40
    Baby Jane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 227 ✭✭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.


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    #41
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭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.


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    #42
    Rosie Rant
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    Floccinaucinihilipilification!! A great word :D .


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    #43
    Frito
    Registered Users Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Frito


    Rosie Rant wrote: »
    Floccinaucinihilipilification!! A great word :D .

    It's rubbish.


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    #44
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    NachoBusiness wrote: »
    Anyone that uses the word retard needs a thesaurus tbh.

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


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    #45
    irish coldplayer
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    Contrafibularity



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    #46
    whupdedo
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    Facetious, I find when you throw the word facetious out , your inexplicably called a wanker shortly after


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    #47
    Harry Palmr
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    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.


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    #48
    whupdedo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,513 ✭✭✭whupdedo


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Its spelt you're. I'm not being fallacious either.

    God damn you harry palmr :mad::D


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    #49
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,959 ✭✭✭✭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. :o

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #50
    KomradeBishop
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    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.


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    #51
    Aceandstuff
    Registered Users Posts: 734 ✭✭✭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."


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