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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'?

There are two types of 'verbose' people. The pleonasmic (talk about quasi-inappropriate word dropping) wanna-be clever folk that want to show off the fact that they once heard a big word, and those that like to offer what they say with a little more finesse than just blurting out the first five commonly used words they think of. I respect the latter, and smile quietly while listening to the former. For my sins, I probably fall somewhere in between....

I hate when people use big words in the wrong context. It makes me sick.

I like learning new words and finding a place for them in writing, but I wouldn't start slipping them in conversation, that strikes me as being a bit grandiloquent and vainglorious ... Oho! :)

Prithee, when didst thou see my dearest mummikins?

No one, anywhere, would understand that.

I use bigwords sometimes, but its usually just to get a point across. Or confuse some annnoying dumb lad who won't shut up.
Either way is okay.

"Can I have a packet of salt n vig-in-er crips peas?"

NO! Lets just hope my stepbrother doesn't impregnate anyone from southern spain!

Ah yes, washing up liquid. My brother used to say 'fairy lick quick'

And getting anyone from Southern Spain to say Crisps is hilarious. My wife hates it. They just can't manage that second S and end up saying 'crips'

My parents laughed at me as I used to call Fairy Washing Up Liquid "Fairy-up-liquid" and Winnie the Pooh "Winnie-Up-Pooh"!

My stebrother was class though, he used to say "vig-in-er" (looks dodgy this way, but it's meant to be vinegar) and he used to put his chips in PH sauce.

Oh, there was the "Harmonica Manouever" if he saw anybody choking...

You would have to pick on one of the worse words there!!

Com-pro-mise

or as I still say occasionally - com-promise :)

Yeah, I know how to say it now but it amuses my other half to have me tell people in the pub what I used to say.

I think it's a question of compromise.

You can make something sound more important (or make yourself sound more intelligent) by the words you use, but these words do not have to be long words. It depends on how you order words and how persuasive they are, so if you use words that people don't understand they may just 'switch off'.

Not impressed at all, especially if I haven't got a clue what they are talking about.

I like words though and never, ever, use 'txt' talk. The only problem I have is I struggle to pronounce anything longer than three syllables :)