Why..? Dear LORD why...?

confabulating or debating utilizing multisyllabic can be futile one would summize that conversing in a more common idiom would obtain a more disireable sequence and us everyday folk can pick that up as talking down to someone and disrespectfull ya some large words are appropriate but some are not and most can tell the differance a large vocabulary does not make you smarter it just means you have a larger vocabulary.

Originally Posted by GreatwhiteNorth

Did you know these, or did you look them up ?

Had to look em up, i know the definitions, but not the words associated to the concepts I never took an A level in English or read fancy books unlike the rest of my family, so dinner time can sometimes be akward, but hey, swings and roundabouts, they have a better vocabulary than me when it comes to some things, and I where it comes to other things No point getting mad at someone because they're "better than you" at something, especially something so trivial as a vocabulary, else the whole world would just be mad, well, madder than it is. Be happy with what you know, not what you don't, you could always know a lot less than you do

Originally Posted by tip top toker

Had to look em up, i know the definitions, but not the words associated to the concepts I never took an A level in English or read fancy books unlike the rest of my family, so dinner time can sometimes be akward, but hey, swings and roundabouts, they have a better vocabulary than me when it comes to some things, and I where it comes to other things No point getting mad at someone because they're "better than you" at something, especially something so trivial as a vocabulary, else the whole world would just be mad, well, madder than it is. Be happy with what you know, not what you don't, you could always know a lot less than you do

I had to look them up too !

The longest one sylable word is screeched.

Originally Posted by ANC

The longest one sylable word is screeched.

scraunched?

Originally Posted by ANC

The longest one sylable word is screeched.

Scraunched, Squirreled

Broughammed. One syllable; eleven letters. Read'm and weep. cn

Originally Posted by Shannon Alexander

Why do some people feel that you are being a pretentious arsehole if you use more than monosyllabic words when attempting to convey your position on complicated topics..?

Also...

It seems to me that some people are so intimidated by big words that they feel the need to attack your character because of it...

How does a person get to a point in their life where they decide that anybody that has a broader vocabulary than theirs is a dickhead..?

I tend to run into this. I'm not sure why.

It helps that I've developed a thick skin toward the usual insults, which always distill down to a shout of "nneerrdd!"

The tricky part is that I also think and speak this way. it's not an affectation ... in fact I've spent most of my life "unSpocking".

Bottom line ... geek and proud. cn