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Quit trying to intimidate with big words

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  • Posts: 5,481 Member
    Almost a bingo!! LOL!!

    OP just rage quit!!! ;)
  • __drmerc__ wrote: »

    A crush is one thing. But the way you are stalking me makes me wonder...

    Don't be afeared of my considerable ... utterances.

  • Posts: 239 Member
    Just break up.
  • Posts: 723 Member
    Shouldn't big words be all capital? How else would they be big????
  • Posts: 786 Member
    '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.
  • Posts: 239 Member
    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.
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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...
  • Only zombies are into brains.
  • Posts: 34,415 Member
    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.
  • Posts: 2,665 Member
    jofjltncb6 wrote: »

    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.
  • Posts: 18,781 Member
    jofjltncb6 wrote: »

    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.

  • Posts: 5,860 Member
    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.

    Maybe you should go back to school and learn some Swahili. Just sayin'.

    I think that this is racialist.
  • Posts: 248 Member
    Of all words, why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?? What kind of cruel joke is that??
  • Posts: 15,573 Member
    Some of you people take drmerc so seriously. It's funny.
  • Posts: 34,971 Member
    arditarose wrote: »
    Some of you people take drmerc so seriously. It's funny.

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  • Posts: 15,573 Member
    ^^oh poop
  • Posts: 22,281 Member
    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.
  • Posts: 22,281 Member
    also...

    antidisestablishmentenarianism
  • Posts: 22,281 Member
    nadnerb61 wrote: »
    Of all words, why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?? What kind of cruel joke is that??
    A hilarious one.
  • Posts: 5,276 Member
    lorib642 wrote: »
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    :laugh:
  • Posts: 2,665 Member
    feralX wrote: »
    I'm with you...I find it exceedingly difficult to have a serious hippopotamus conversation these days. I blame the internet.

    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.


  • Posts: 542 Member
    oh my!
  • Posts: 523 Member
    Quit trying to intimidate folks that use big words. It's just vocabulary.
  • Posts: 451 Member
    edited November 2014
    Kindly elucidate your reasoning for this polemical thread, _DrMerc_, lest people start labelling you a Svengali.
  • Posts: 3,731 Member
    __drmerc__ wrote: »

    Like one poster here likes to throw around french words like "de novo lipogenesis" to get you to give up your argument

    What? No more schadenfreude?
  • Posts: 8,588 Member
    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? :D
  • Posts: 5,276 Member

    What? No more schadenfreude?
    Gets my vote for best word ever.

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