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What's your favourite 'look how educated I am' word?
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I consider myself to be reasonably intelligent, but I wouldn't say I'm particularly knowledgeable in many areas and I don't read anywhere near as much as I should.

One thing I've always admired about this place is the way people put together their arguments and their choice of words. Some of which I've not come across before. But let's be honest, there's a degree of 'look how smart I am' when some of these words are rolled out. We all do it. Not necessarily to be a jerk but because we like to sex it up.

So what are some of your favourite words to drop into a sentence when you get the chance? For the uneducated fools like me provide a layman's synonym so Google can take a break. Conversely what words do you see people using incorrectly?

Let the Elitist Tosser 101 class commence. School's in...
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Gunt is a pretty classy, edumacated word.

How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?
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Bigly
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I appreciate any verbiage that includes extraneous, irrelevant, immaterial, superfluous, and unnecessary u's.






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Re: What's your favourite 'look how educated I am' word? [mv2005] [ In reply to ]
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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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I crack up every time andrewmc says whilest.

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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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bard

sometimes
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Re: What's your favourite 'look how educated I am' word? [veganerd] [ In reply to ]
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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.
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Evidently using literally wrong is popular these days.
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Obtuse

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

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You're a fucking pussy.

Civilize the mind, but make savage the body.

- Chinese proverb
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Vulvodynia
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Copacetic
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We have a few that prove our superior educational system

Honour
Colour
Valour
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Re: What's your favourite 'look how educated I am' word? [mv2005] [ In reply to ]
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mv2005 wrote:
I consider myself to be reasonably intelligent, but I wouldn't say I'm particularly knowledgeable in many areas and I don't read anywhere near as much as I should.

One thing I've always admired about this place is the way people put together their arguments and their choice of words. Some of which I've not come across before. But let's be honest, there's a degree of 'look how smart I am' when some of these words are rolled out. We all do it. Not necessarily to be a jerk but because we like to sex it up.

So what are some of your favourite words to drop into a sentence when you get the chance? For the uneducated fools like me provide a layman's synonym so Google can take a break. Conversely what words do you see people using incorrectly?

Let the Elitist Tosser 101 class commence. School's in...

Eschew obfuscation.

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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.
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attenuate: make smaller, diminish
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I am nonplussed by this thread.
Last edited by: MidwestRoadie: Aug 12, 17 6:37
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windywave wrote:
Evidently using literally wrong is popular these days.

It's right, now, though.

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

"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... "
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Leddy wrote:
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.

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

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trail wrote:
windywave wrote:
Evidently using literally wrong is popular these days.

It's right, now, though.

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

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.
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klehner wrote:
Leddy wrote:
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.

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

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