Gunt is a pretty classy, edumacated word.

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

Bigly

I appreciate any verbiage that includes extraneous, irrelevant, immaterial, superfluous, and unnecessary u's.

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Take a short break from ST and read my blog:
http://tri-banter.blogspot.com/

Sesquipedalian is my favorite word. it can be sexed up by adding loquaciousness.

I dont use it to sound smart but i did use it here a while back when theforge was poking fun at my vocabulary.

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who's smarter than you're? i'm!

I crack up every time andrewmc says whilest.

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I'll be what I am
A solitary man

While a transcendent vocabulary is laudable, one must nevertheless keep incessant surveillance against such loquacious, effusive, voluble verbosity that the calculated objective of communication becomes ensconced in obscurity.

(I memorized that gem in middle school to impress girls -- its effectivity was dubious.)

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"100% of the people who confuse correlation and causation end up dying."

bard

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sometimes

When I educated myself on that one I found a link where many people said they came across that word by watching Adam Sandler and Elmo on Sesame Street!

The kids start early these days.

I might challenge myself to correctly use these words in correspondence at work in the next 1-2 weeks and see how much flak I cop.

Evidently using literally wrong is popular these days.

Obtuse

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They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot

You're a fucking pussy.

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Civilize the mind, but make savage the body.

- Chinese proverb

Vulvodynia

Copacetic

We have a few that prove our superior educational system

Honour
Colour
Valour

Eschew obfuscation.

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"Go yell at an M&M"

Dissembling (liar, like mendacious man)
Ineffable (too great to describe in words)
Erudite (smart, although I think this is a douche word used by people overreaching to sound smart or at least educated ; there is a difference between smart and educated)
Sophistry (clever but misleading reasoning)
Vapid (really boring and inane, i.e. 99.9% of social media).

These are just a few, some of which I like. I rarely use any. But when I do, I use them literally.

attenuate: make smaller, diminish

I am nonplussed by this thread.

It's right, now, though.

My pet peeve is using "utilize" instead of "use" just to sound smart.

I used altruistic in a sentence with my neighbor a while back. The confused / you're a DB look on their face had me looking up the word later to see if I had used it incorrectly.

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"I think I've cracked the code. double letters are cheaters except for perfect squares (a, d, i, p and y). So Leddy isn't a cheater... "

Try using "niggard" and see what happens...

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"Go yell at an M&M"

That doesn't bug me that much. I almost punched a guy in the face when he said we can all get together and dialogue this week.

That always makes me shake head at the lack of education in this country

I used pedantic this week this week talking to a guy who runs a group. He asked me how to spell it, looked it up, and then agreed that is what I was being.

I'll nominate sybarite as my word but to be honest I don't use words to look smart i just have a pretty good vocabulary thanks to my dad.

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of "verbing," i.e. using nouns as verbs.

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(insert pithy phrase here...)

Work setting ? That can also fall into a separate topic, "stupid work sayings". Top of my list, "let's circle up later".

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"I think I've cracked the code. double letters are cheaters except for perfect squares (a, d, i, p and y). So Leddy isn't a cheater... "

Yes it was.

covfefe

You dont like the action or the word?

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The word is the action.

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"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

I manage large EPC projects. I was giving a brief project update at a company all-hands meeting and said something like, "The are no more major hurdles, though with any mega project, we will continue dealing with a slew of niggly small problems until completion." There were murmurs from the crowd but i figured it was some sort of inexplicable excitement about my project from the warehouse guys. Afterward the eVP took me aside and pointed out that even though many know what that word means, the less litterate folks dont and may assume the worst.

I was coached to use words more carefully. Having taken his advice to heart, I admited* that flowery words may be a chink in my armour and hence forth I will heep my vocabulary spic n span of words potentially insulting to morons. Then I sniggered at my faux pas and moved on.

*I said al, this silently in my head. I need to keep my job.

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Remember - It's important to be comfortable in your own skin... because it turns out society frowns on wearing other people's

First, it was a joke. Second, the word youre looking for is autological. 😉

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who's smarter than you're? i'm!

Why wait for the opportunity to use a "big" word in English? It's more fun to speak my second language in as if it's an accident.

If you're limiting me to English, 'to wit.'

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

"Assemble" or "construct" would make you sound more eloquent.

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

First, it was a joke.

Aspirationally, maybe.

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"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

 

IMO, 'dialogue' pigeonholes one as a business person. I am not a fan of business speak.

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

You left out the best part of my post which brought it full circle!

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who's smarter than you're? i'm!

Pretty sure i have never written whilest......may have written whilst......

In fact - because i am picky that way - the only occurence of the word "whilest" on the forum is in this thread. So whilst you may have meant whilst, whilest is not something i have written i can be castigated for.........see what i did there

Whatcha talkin' about WhilEst?

I use two:

1) Salubrious - promoting health as in "These carrots are certainly salubrious". That sentence appeared in a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon, which is where I first read it.
2) Pusillanimous - contemptibly timid. Taken from the liner notes of Ministry album describing the "Radio Edit" version of one of their songs

I like that they're big words I learned in the most lowbrow way possible.

Lol

Don't have a favorite word, but my pet peeve is people saying "very unique" or worse, "most unique." You're either unique or you're not. There are no degrees of uniqueness.

Inapposite.

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Axsk or Axsked

Might could (this is a Southern thing like "I might could do it.")

Erudite (smart, although I think this is a douche word used by people overreaching to sound smart or at least educated ;

Ahem."Erudite" does not mean smart.

Thou hast purloined my entry, thou swollen parcel of dropsies.

“Poisonous bunch-backed toad! “

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Be Prepared-- Strike Swiftly -- Who Dares Wins- Without warning-"it will be hard. I can do it"

Consternation.

For those who don't know, this is what I experience when I've had my second cup of coffee and still haven't made the trip to the bathroom.

Another of my favorite words (and one appropriate to the LR) is "contumelious".

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  adj.
  Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful.
  

Used in a sentence:
The average LR poster is a froward contumelious grobian; a wicked mutinous dog.

Apologies to Patrick O'Brian, from whom you can pick up a lot of good vocabulary.

Embiggins is a perfectly cromulent word

You'd have to erudite to know that

Strategize

Why use 4 letters ("plan") when you can use ten.

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II even checked that spelling in the Urban Dictionary.

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Because a plan is a single action to attain a goal, strategies are objectives. Similar yes, the same? Not exactly.

I first read whilest as whitest.

Bugs the hell out of me when someone at work asks me to "reach out to" someone. Sure, let me stretch my arm over 1,000 miles. Sorry, can't reach them.

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Fair enough. My definition was a bit clumsy. Trying (a bit) too hard to simplify. In my own defense, I posted that early in the morning before my caffeine literally kicked in.

The first time I heard this argument it was advanced by one of my professors in graduate school; I was surprised at the time because it simply isn't true--"unique" has a broader definition than you (and he) ascribe(d) to it and is used only infrequently in the popular lexicon in the narrow sense for which this would hold true. The editors of the Oxford English Dictionary said it best, so I'll quote them:

"There is a set of adjectives—including unique, complete, equal, infinite, and perfect—whose core meaning embraces a mathematically absolute concept and which therefore, according to a traditional argument, cannot be modified by adverbs such as really, quite, or very. For example, since the core meaning of unique (from Latin ‘one’) is ‘being only one of its kind’, it is logically impossible, the argument goes, to submodify it: it either is ‘unique’ or it is not, and there are no in-between stages. In practice the situation in the language is more complex than this. Words like unique have a core sense but they often also have a secondary, less precise sense: in this case, the meaning ‘very remarkable or unusual’, as in a really unique opportunity. In its secondary sense, unique does not relate to an absolute concept, and so the use of submodifying adverbs is grammatically acceptable."

Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.

Except "unique" does not mean "unusual."

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"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

I think the point of the OED editors' note is that the word IS used to mean unusual, and has been for some time. Language constantly evolves, after all, and word definitions are by no means fixed.

"In practice... " doesn't make the usage correct. Indeed what I have quoted above is just someone's opinion, so why pretend it's necessarily correct?

On that understanding of language, there is literally no such thing as an improper use of a word.

And I mean literally in the correct sense, not metaphorically.

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"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

If an employer said, "I want to ultilize my employees as best possible" compared to "I want to use my employees as best possible", it sounds different to me.

Utilize sounds like it's about efficiency.

Use sounds like it's about slaving "for the man".

My 2 cents.

In the case of the OED, as with other dictionaries, the philosophy of the editors is to ascertain the definition of a given word based on its usage. Word usage changes all the time, determined entirely by the population using it; take the word "gay," for example--a dictionary editor did not decide that it should mean "homosexual," the people using it did and now it is used in that sense almost exclusively. For another example, the word "symphony" originally meant a musical form, but is now commonly used to denote the group of musicians who play music in that form. There is no tribunal responsible for defining a word like "unique" and then enforcing its correct usage; the word means what people using it want it to mean, and more people apparently share the opinion that "unique" simply means "unusual" than want to be sticklers for its historical meaning. You can fight it if you want, but know that it's a losing battle.

I have no reason to fight anything. But know that if you use "literal" to mean "figurative," or "unique" to mean "unusual," lots of people are going to consider you ignorant, no matter what the OED editors opine.

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"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

No worries. Thanks for indulging my supercilious arrogance.

Pretty certain you didn't

Tell me more, I want to be that dad. Plus my 16 year old is going to be taking the sat soon.

autodidactic - pretty much explains my life.

I'll sometimes use 'hence' in a sentence which I think I got from my father's extensive vocabulary. Its a word that I don't see others using very much on here.

Sure, given that context I'd agree w/ your example, but that's not how the word is frequently utilized just to sound more pompous...

Are uh and um words?