Are you a big word wielding smartypants?
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December 27th, 2013
There’s a lot of smart people here. I kind of want to make a game of this. It’ll be fun!
Write a sentence with as many big words as you can about the jelly below! (TJB)
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Coloma contemplates to her consternation, few big words at 8:04 a.m., post holiday insanity.
That’s all she wrote, for now. Gimme 2 more cups of Java first. lol
The dichotomies observed and discussed on fluther are sometimes conundrums to be contemplated in a less combustible environment.
Tangentially, the aforementioned notwithstanding, by eschewing obfuscation and superfluous, hyperbolic rhetoric, one ostensibly self-appeases innate pseudo-tribal inclinations.
Syntactical proscriptions would ameliorate the grammatical peccadilloes in your declarative exclamatory sentence, @DWW25921. Predicate consistency with the nominative would inculcate cognition by stating There are rather than There is.
Heavens, no. It’s silly and pretentious to bombard a listener (or a reader) with long, obscure words. Intelligent, knowledgeable people are self-confident and have no need to show off.
@SadieMartinPaul It’s just for funzies, big words are interesting. If you play with us I promise not to think you’re a show off! :)
I am just too tired and brain dead to play today, sheesh, it takes a lot for my brain to shut down but 4 days of festivities and partying has flat lined my gray matter. lol
Have you ever seen a humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa while singing Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?
Thanks for the new word, @Kardamom – now if I can just figure out how to casually throw it into a few conversations, I might confuse some annoying people! How did I never hear of this fish?
Rather than providing an anomalistic gasconading circumlocution, I will forthwith declare that several of our fellow jellies are unparagoned sesquipedalians with unencumbered perspicacity.
Whoa dude !
THAT Is tooo much !
I’m a logophile, not a dancing monkey.
Size doesn’t matter, it’s how you use it :P
Anyone foolish enough to want to read my doctoral thesis can subject themselves to as much technical and scientific language as they could want. It was written to be clear to my peers and professors. The kind of language used was expected to be precise and persuasive with considerable reference to the statistical analysis used to substantiate my observations and conclusions. I do not recommend it as enjoyable reading material.
Write about the jelly below? I don’t know who the jelly below will be. I don’t throw around big words. Funny, my husband lately has been using words I am surprised by. “Big” words. LOL. I swear it seems to be happening more lately; he thinks I am crazy. I asked him who he has been hanging around. They are all words I know, they aren’t especially advanced, but not the typical language an 8th grader would use. From what I understand many articles are written on an 8th grade level. If my peers or parents or a jelly for that matter used them it would not surprise me at all. English is his second language and as I said his vocabularly seems to have stepped up somewhat. Maybe he is around more C-level people now and that’s why?
@uberbatman That’s my motto! (pitiful sigh)
@Dr_Lawrence I’ll make it a point to never read it than!
@JLeslie I think the rules are being ignored. It’s fine though. I understood everything you said!
@Dr_Lawrence Are you saying that we won’t be seeing Dr. Lawrence’s Doctoral Thesis The Musical anytime soon?
Bummer, I was kind of looking forward to it
TJB IS A BIG STRONG PERSON WHO CAN THROW AN ELEPHANT FOR 10000000000 FEET AND CAN LIFT THE MOON AND THEN PUSH IT FAR, FAR AWAY INTO THE ENORMOUS UNIVERSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Big enough?
I have no compunction against being erudite in vocalizing my hypotheses regarding the formation and integration of the species or individual into the societal unit.
Yet, I wanna get along w/all yalls!
As an aside, I recently had a student who spoke like this all the time! The difference between what y’all are writing and her is that she had no idea what half the words meant. When she spoke, it was like a thesaurus threw up.
Her ructus of specious speech was terribly bowdlerized, heh?
No musical version of my academic writing is being considered for the stage or screen as a musical. That is something about which even I am grateful!
I can speak on many subjects using obscure technobabble. I have no neurotic need to throw such language around in some vain effort to impress others. If anything, I am more likely to use direct, straight-forward language that empathetically respect the feelings and interests of those with whom I converse.
In simpler terms I like to talk to people so they have the pleasant experience of feeling heard and understood by someone who cares enough to listen while they speak.
If any of you really want to read my doctoral dissertation, you can find and download it from here . It is a concise 180 pages!
It has been downloaded by people in Pirooz, Iran; Beijing, China, ; somewhere in Germany, and a bunch of folks in the USA.
It seems 10 people have downloaded it in the last 6 months! I am amazed!
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