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"Mr Bartender, a moment of you time, sir."

In another thread, you wrote this:

"My intellect, such as it is, is a cherished gift, and not a weapon. If I use big words like "peon" and "fool" to bewilder people, the bewilderment is there because they are stupid, and not because I am smart."

Now I would just like to point something out:

Peon and fool aren't actually big words. They are only 4 letters each.

Up to the end of the last sentence, I used 16 words that were longer than 4 letters. I would also assume that there is a fair number of other words, which are also longer then 4 letters.

Suffice to say that I think you need to increase the scale of your big words because, quite frankly, some of them aren't.

Unbeliever wrote:

> Damn you! I hate that stinking "joke".
>
> *seethes in anger*

Well I've got a whole list of people you can visit and take your anger out on:

That posh girl who made jokes about Iambic Pentameter.
The ignoramus who made jokes about illiteration.
Year 13.
Some bloke who paid me ten quid for a entire day's labouring.
My flatmate who spent 3 months living at our expense.
The kid who broke into our primary school and nicked my pencil case.

Goatboy wrote:
> Onomatapia is a big word.

It's even longer if you spell it properly...

Using 'big' words doesn't make you intelligent, it's the equivalent of walking into a restaurant wearing a top hat and a little monacle.

The sagacious one wrote:
> Smiles is the longest word, according to those pedantic wordsmiths as
> it has a whole "mile" between letters. In fact this sort of
> feeble joke in Eng Lit at school, would often lead me to scribe the
> comedian's name on my "to do" list.

*slaps The Sagacious One with the back of his hand*

Damn you! I hate that stinking "joke".

*seethes in anger*

Your Honour wrote:
> Peon and fool aren't actually big words. They are only 4 letters
> each.


That was my point, dummy. I'm often berated for what people call "big words", even though the words themselves are actually, usually quite small. I went on to mention my repertoire of large words each with fewer than seven letters, yes?

*waits for penny to drop*

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a lung disease which few have ever survived: mainly due to the length of time it takes to write out a prescription for the antibiotics needed to treat it.

Smiles is the longest word, according to those pedantic wordsmiths as it has a whole "mile" between letters. In fact this sort of feeble joke in Eng Lit at school, would often lead me to scribe the comedian's name on my "to do" list.

Your Honour wrote:
> If I use big words like "peon" and "fool" to bewilder people...

Is IB not being sarcastic here?

Woppajoppies is big, but it's not a real word :O[

Good word, that, Goatboy!

It remember reading about it when I studied English Lit.

*shudders*

Onomatapia is a big word.