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"Vocabulary"

How impressed are you by someones vocabulary, if someone was to make exactly the same point yet in a more 'artful' way would it impress you more, or can you see through the 'big words'?

Big words rock.

Or, for those of you who actually congregate within this intelligent discussion forum, to converse upon intellectual matters, and why BB is awful: Big words rock.

I do that with stupid people I don't like. Use big words, "Wha." Then shake my head, sadly. Works.

I sometimes use a word without being totally sure it's correct to convey the meaning I want but when I check I find that it was the correct one to use. :D

shut up you raging hiophrate

I like having a varied vocabulary as I often struggle to find the word I mean. Either that or start making up words, which is much more fun

"Tweenager".
Someone who is between the ages of 8 and 12.

Sibelius wrote:
> I have days when words I barely know the meaning of flit into my
> mind, and days when I have the vocabulary of a horse.
> I love language and words in general - I collect them, not
> necessarily to use them but ... just because.
> I visit "World Wide Words" every now andthen to see
> what I can pick up. Today Brimborion - a thing without
> value or use. Ha.

If you would have posted that in any other thread, your post would be brimborion :D

I have days when words I barely know the meaning of flit into my mind, and days when I have the vocabulary of a horse.
I love language and words in general - I collect them, not necessarily to use them but ... just because.
I visit "World Wide Words" every now andthen to see what I can pick up. Today Brimborion - a thing without value or use. Ha.

I just talk differently to different people.
The weird thing is I sometimes use bigger words becuase i can't remember a simpler one.:S

I don't feel it's about making it difficult for people to understand, more a case of why should we all go at the pace of the slowest runner?

Besides, some less common words can say in a syllable what otherwise might take two sentences to explain. Why waste the effort?