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This thread has been on the cards for some time, so here it comes.
Of late, there has been a rapidly growing number of people both on these forums and beyond that seem to have a problem with the way I type and the way I talk. This problem, to anyone reading this who has never read anything from me before, is not what you might expect people to pick on. You see, I don't indulge in lazy text talk, or fill out sentences using backwardly typed expletives to avoid swearfilters. No, the problem is, to me at least, far more puzzling. You see, I use good, solid english words. The type of words most people learn at school, or read in books, at the very least, I use words 95% of which 99% of people should understand, if not from experience then through context.
However, some people seem to have developed a problem with my use of such words. You need only see my thread regarding the use of the word "incompatible", which is an everyday word mind, to see what I'm talking about here.
Other than "incompatible", another word that some people seem to get irritated at me for using is "peon". Now, peon may not be an everyday word, to some at least, and I have to admit that I myself didn't come across during my school years. But a lot of other people did. Anybody who played Warcraft in the early 90's would have come across the word dozens of times, and it was playing Warcraft II in the late 90's that I eventually came across it myself. Having played the game extensively, the idea of being a peon became comical, as they were essentially ignorant peasants forced to work by your command, and they spoke in downtrodden and stupid tones.
To this day, I've never bothered to look up the definition of the word, but I generally know what it means.
The point there is, peon is a gamer's word. This is a gamer's forum. Why would gamers object to the use of a word which was a part of gaming history? Beats me to be honest. The word is a joke, and is almost always said as a joke. Perhaps people have just lost their sense of humour in regards to language, and can only find comic relief watching the misfortune of others.
But anyway, my point is that the vast majority of the language I use is understandable by again the vast majority of users on these forums. Sure, a few words will pop up that some people might not have come across before, but what's the problem with that? They say you learn something new everyday, but in my experience most people do not. The don't learn something new everyday, because they don't try to teach themselves anything. To those people who say to me that I use words they fail to comprehend or even recognise, I say this:
www.dictionary.com
It'll only take a few moments, and you'll be all the wiser for it. You can genuinely claim that you have learnt something that day, perhaps even something you may have cause to use yourself sometime in your future.
If you can't make the effort to apprise yourself of something which, in my opinion, you should probably already know, then, to be quite frank, your opinion already means nothing to me and ranting to me about your lack of terminological flexibility is not only not going to make me change, no, simplify the language I use, but is actually quite likely to make me step up my vocabulary to use what even *I* would term excessively and unnecessarily complicated language. Which is not to say I'm holding back now; I write as I feel comfortable writing - which is the main reason I refuse to change.
Do I make myself feel clever when I use big words? Many of you would likely say that I think I do, but that is not correct. To me, the english language is there to be used. Far too many of you seem to struggle to describe things without resorting to expletives and/or text talking or some other rubbish.
Language isn't clever. Which is why most of us can actually speak it, the majority can write it, but strangely, disparate few actually know how to use it.
Complain all you want when "big" words come along, but at the end of the day, we're all (mostly) english in here, and whether you have pride in that or not, the language is part and parcel of the nationality, and I will not be made to feel like villain for using it.
Have a nice day.
Of late, there has been a rapidly growing number of people both on these forums and beyond that seem to have a problem with the way I type and the way I talk. This problem, to anyone reading this who has never read anything from me before, is not what you might expect people to pick on. You see, I don't indulge in lazy text talk, or fill out sentences using backwardly typed expletives to avoid swearfilters. No, the problem is, to me at least, far more puzzling. You see, I use good, solid english words. The type of words most people learn at school, or read in books, at the very least, I use words 95% of which 99% of people should understand, if not from experience then through context.
However, some people seem to have developed a problem with my use of such words. You need only see my thread regarding the use of the word "incompatible", which is an everyday word mind, to see what I'm talking about here.
Other than "incompatible", another word that some people seem to get irritated at me for using is "peon". Now, peon may not be an everyday word, to some at least, and I have to admit that I myself didn't come across during my school years. But a lot of other people did. Anybody who played Warcraft in the early 90's would have come across the word dozens of times, and it was playing Warcraft II in the late 90's that I eventually came across it myself. Having played the game extensively, the idea of being a peon became comical, as they were essentially ignorant peasants forced to work by your command, and they spoke in downtrodden and stupid tones.
To this day, I've never bothered to look up the definition of the word, but I generally know what it means.
The point there is, peon is a gamer's word. This is a gamer's forum. Why would gamers object to the use of a word which was a part of gaming history? Beats me to be honest. The word is a joke, and is almost always said as a joke. Perhaps people have just lost their sense of humour in regards to language, and can only find comic relief watching the misfortune of others.
But anyway, my point is that the vast majority of the language I use is understandable by again the vast majority of users on these forums. Sure, a few words will pop up that some people might not have come across before, but what's the problem with that? They say you learn something new everyday, but in my experience most people do not. The don't learn something new everyday, because they don't try to teach themselves anything. To those people who say to me that I use words they fail to comprehend or even recognise, I say this:
www.dictionary.com
It'll only take a few moments, and you'll be all the wiser for it. You can genuinely claim that you have learnt something that day, perhaps even something you may have cause to use yourself sometime in your future.
If you can't make the effort to apprise yourself of something which, in my opinion, you should probably already know, then, to be quite frank, your opinion already means nothing to me and ranting to me about your lack of terminological flexibility is not only not going to make me change, no, simplify the language I use, but is actually quite likely to make me step up my vocabulary to use what even *I* would term excessively and unnecessarily complicated language. Which is not to say I'm holding back now; I write as I feel comfortable writing - which is the main reason I refuse to change.
Do I make myself feel clever when I use big words? Many of you would likely say that I think I do, but that is not correct. To me, the english language is there to be used. Far too many of you seem to struggle to describe things without resorting to expletives and/or text talking or some other rubbish.
Language isn't clever. Which is why most of us can actually speak it, the majority can write it, but strangely, disparate few actually know how to use it.
Complain all you want when "big" words come along, but at the end of the day, we're all (mostly) english in here, and whether you have pride in that or not, the language is part and parcel of the nationality, and I will not be made to feel like villain for using it.
Have a nice day.
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I have no problem with using a wide vocabulary, it's when a sentence is almost all words that you barely ever come across in the spoken language that you start to think the poster is being pretencious.
gerrid wrote:
> In Holland, they put snroot on their chips.
> snroot.
> And if IB can give me an example of a cnidarian, without looking it
> up, I will be greatly impressed.
Fish "N" chips.
> In Holland, they put snroot on their chips.
> snroot.
> And if IB can give me an example of a cnidarian, without looking it
> up, I will be greatly impressed.
Fish "N" chips.
It's no Cnidarian, although it's a nice alternative to snroot.
I don't get why people make critical remarks when you use a more, how can I say, "complicated" vocabulary, if you know what I mean.
All it shows is, is that you can speak the language that you have been brought up in properly, unlike these other fools.
And anyways, if I see a word I don't quite understand, I look at the context surrounding it.
Simple example, and easy word, but it's all I can think of at the mo...
"She was a widow, always attired in black."
If you don't know what attired means, you look at the key surrounding words.
Widow, and black in this case.
You then put 2 and 2 together.
It's simple really.
However, I don't know why I'm giving an English lesson.....
All it shows is, is that you can speak the language that you have been brought up in properly, unlike these other fools.
And anyways, if I see a word I don't quite understand, I look at the context surrounding it.
Simple example, and easy word, but it's all I can think of at the mo...
"She was a widow, always attired in black."
If you don't know what attired means, you look at the key surrounding words.
Widow, and black in this case.
You then put 2 and 2 together.
It's simple really.
However, I don't know why I'm giving an English lesson.....
Using swear words shows a lack of intelligence, and using more sensible sounding words shows that someone is well educated and well read instead of a clueless asinine.
*Looks up asinine in dictionary*
*Looks up asinine in dictionary*
As much as I would like to avoid swear words, more often than not they seem the perfect medium to get across a point I need to make, in both serious and comedic situations.
However, on the whole, I prefer to be slightly more subtle.
And I hate the harshness of the 'F' word. Replace the 'u' with an 'e' if you *must* use it.
However, on the whole, I prefer to be slightly more subtle.
And I hate the harshness of the 'F' word. Replace the 'u' with an 'e' if you *must* use it.
I use normal English.
Its not that hard.
But then again, I really do not mind if people don't. Its up to them if they want to look stupid.....
Hmm. Now lets think up a joking, smiling, concilatory remark thats better than a 'smiley'.
Damn.
:D
Its not that hard.
But then again, I really do not mind if people don't. Its up to them if they want to look stupid.....
Hmm. Now lets think up a joking, smiling, concilatory remark thats better than a 'smiley'.
Damn.
:D
My vocabulary is good because I read a lot. ;o)
I like using 'big' words, it makes you feel all intelligent.
*I'm quite aware that sentance sounded really thick*
Anywho, at the moment I like to use the word 'phallas' becuase no-one knows what it means. Well, a few.
If you have such 'posh' (as thick people call them) words, in your vocab, you can quite easily insult anyone quite serverely without them even knowing what you're on about.
Then they eff and blind all over the place as some kind of comeback.
*I'm quite aware that sentance sounded really thick*
Anywho, at the moment I like to use the word 'phallas' becuase no-one knows what it means. Well, a few.
If you have such 'posh' (as thick people call them) words, in your vocab, you can quite easily insult anyone quite serverely without them even knowing what you're on about.
Then they eff and blind all over the place as some kind of comeback.
Meka Dragon wrote:
> My vocabulary is good because I read a lot. ;o)
Same here.
'Tis very usefull.
> My vocabulary is good because I read a lot. ;o)
Same here.
'Tis very usefull.
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