The stop using "big words" comeback

Adamantium · 08-03-2015 05:23PM #1

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 · 08-03-2015 05:24PM

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 · 08-03-2015 05:25PM

Strawman!

irish coldplayer · 08-03-2015 05:25PM

sheeple!

ygolometsipe · 08-03-2015 05:29PM

smiles is a big word.

There's a mile between the two 's'

endacl · 08-03-2015 05:30PM

Binglibongliboop!

dxhound2005 · 08-03-2015 05:32PM

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

It

Sir Osis of Liver. · 08-03-2015 05:35PM

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 · 08-03-2015 05:44PM

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 · 08-03-2015 05:44PM

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 · 08-03-2015 05:51PM

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 · 08-03-2015 05:56PM

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

Titzon Toast · 08-03-2015 05:56PM

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 · 08-03-2015 05:58PM

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 · 08-03-2015 06:01PM

I think you meant retort, OP.

Dog of Tears · 08-03-2015 06:04PM

Adamantium wrote: »

Family, unfortunately.

Too big.
'Alas' is better.

Adamantium · 08-03-2015 06:05PM

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 · 08-03-2015 06:07PM

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 · 08-03-2015 06:09PM

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!

08-03-2015 06:10PM

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 · 08-03-2015 06:20PM

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

AnonoBoy · 08-03-2015 06:22PM

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. · 08-03-2015 06:25PM

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 · 08-03-2015 06:28PM

Titzon Toast wrote: »

What's another word for thesaurus?

I'll get my coat...

Onomasticon. What's another word for coat?

kneemos · 08-03-2015 06:29PM

Disestablishmentarianism.

Now that's a word.

AnonoBoy · 08-03-2015 06:31PM

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 · 08-03-2015 06:31PM

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Masterbatour?

Onanist?

08-03-2015 06:32PM

kneemos wrote: »

Disestablishmentarianism.

Now that's a word.

Antidisestablishmentarianism is another one

kneemos · 08-03-2015 06:33PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Antidisestablishmentarianism is another one

Touche.

Frito · 08-03-2015 06:36PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Antidisestablishmentarianism is another one

Semi-quasi-pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism.

Yes, really!

melissak · 08-03-2015 06:37PM

Billy86 wrote: »

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

I agree. Perfectly cromulant.
:-)

The stop using "big words" comeback

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