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Quit trying to intimidate with big words
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Almost a bingo!! LOL!!
OP just rage quit!!!
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__drmerc__ wrote: »__drmerc__ wrote: »I noticed some posters around here are trying to bully others by using big words we/I don't understand. That's not going to work, we are pretty smart and figure things out too
We should all be here to support each other on our journeys
If we were friends I would be getting you a dictionary for Christmas. Jusssayin.
A crush is one thing. But the way you are stalking me makes me wonder...
Don't be afeared of my considerable ... utterances.
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Just break up.0
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Shouldn't big words be all capital? How else would they be big????0
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'I’ve taken to long-distance walking as a means of dissolving the mechanised matrix which compresses the space-time continuum, and decouples human from physical geography. So this isn’t walking for leisure -- that would be merely frivolous, or even for exercise -- which would be tedious. No, to underscore the seriousness of my project I like a walk which takes me to a meeting or an assignment; that way I can drag other people into my eotechnical world view. ‘How was your journey?’ they say. ‘Not bad,’ I reply. ‘Take long?’ they enquire. ‘About ten hours,’ I admit. ‘I walked here.’ My interlocutor goggles at me; if he took ten hours to get here, they’re undoubtedly thinking, will the meeting have to go on for twenty? As Emile Durkheim so sagely observed, a society’s space-time perceptions are a function of its social rhythm and its territory. So, by walking to the business meeting I have disrupted it just as surely as if I’d appeared stark naked with a peacock’s tail fanning out from my buttocks while mouthing Symbolist poetry'
Will Self, Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place
This man makes me laugh and rage quit in equal measure.0 -
I think they're only capital if they're proper names...like Ouagadougou, Berkina Faso. Otherwise, I think they can be little, even if they're big.0
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There are two kinds of people: those who are intimidated by big words and insecure about it; and those who embrace what they don't know and view "big words" as an opportunity to expand their vocabulary.
Personally I love it when someone uses a word I don't recognize, I'll look it up and "voila!", I've learned something new.
Your muscles aren't the only body part that needs exercise, after all...0 -
Only zombies are into brains.0
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Joannah700 wrote: »Hippopotamus is a big word. It has many letters and many syllables. I feel like we don't talk enough about hippopotamuses around here.
Know what else is a big word?
Abbreviation.
And I think that's funny.0 -
jofjltncb6 wrote: »Joannah700 wrote: »Hippopotamus is a big word. It has many letters and many syllables. I feel like we don't talk enough about hippopotamuses around here.
Know what else is a big word?
Abbreviation.
And I think that's funny.
It's like lisp. Just a sad state of affairs to have a 's' in that word.0 -
jofjltncb6 wrote: »Joannah700 wrote: »Hippopotamus is a big word. It has many letters and many syllables. I feel like we don't talk enough about hippopotamuses around here.
Know what else is a big word?
Abbreviation.
And I think that's funny.
I love that phonetic isn't spelled the way it sounds.
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Some_Watery_Tart wrote: »
Do you speak Swahili? Cause if you don't understand what some guy speaking Swahili says, that speaks more about you than it does about him.FatFreeFrolicking wrote: »TheVirgoddess wrote: »The fact that you think people use "big" words in an effort to make you feel inferior says way more about you than it ever will about them.
I love words. I love reading about words, learning new words and learning the etymology of words.
This. If you don't understand what someone is saying, maybe it's a hint that you should pick up a dictionary or go to school to further your education/expand your knowledge.
Maybe you should go back to school and learn some Swahili. Just sayin'.
I think that this is racialist.
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Of all words, why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?? What kind of cruel joke is that??0
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Some of you people take drmerc so seriously. It's funny.0
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^^oh poop0
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Torontonius wrote: »There are two kinds of people: those who are intimidated by big words and insecure about it; and those who embrace what they don't know and view "big words" as an opportunity to expand their vocabulary.
Personally I love it when someone uses a word I don't recognize, I'll look it up and "voila!", I've learned something new.
Your muscles aren't the only body part that needs exercise, after all...
There is a third kind of people....the kind who buy big trucks and use big words to make up for their lack of size in the (what's the biggest word for pe---???) erectile protrusions department.0 -
also...
antidisestablishmentenarianism0 -
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I'm with you...I find it exceedingly difficult to have a serious hippopotamus conversation these days. I blame the internet.Joannah700 wrote: »Hippopotamus is a big word. It has many letters and many syllables. I feel like we don't talk enough about hippopotamuses around here.
And we should be talking about them!
According to the Internet (which is filled with truth), hippopotamuses kill more people than lions, and tigers and bears each year.
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oh my!0
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Quit trying to intimidate folks that use big words. It's just vocabulary.0
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Kindly elucidate your reasoning for this polemical thread, _DrMerc_, lest people start labelling you a Svengali.0
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__drmerc__ wrote: »
What? No more schadenfreude?0 -
Hummm, one thing we have to realize is that we deal with people all over the World on this socializing network, different ages, culture s and demographics. Along with multiple people who completed college and some are currently attending. I am very open to growing and learning from others bottom line. Other members intellectual superiority doesn't intimidate me one bit. Some things I didn't know I googled to gain better comprehension.
Be yourself, you alright in my book, no Matter what?
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Gets my vote for best word ever.SnuggleSmacks wrote: »__drmerc__ wrote: »
What? No more schadenfreude?
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