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Dan Fogelberg's ([info]llama_treats) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2008-11-18 18:32:00
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Entry tags:community: bad_rpers_suck, dictionaries are for losers, get your ampersands here, if only he ordered decaffeinated, language

Words are hard :(
And now, the newest addition to the short list of words that don't exist: vainglorious.
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[info]singe
2008-11-19 12:54 am UTC (link)
It's a perfectly cro...er, good word!

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(no subject) - [info]llama_treats, 2008-11-19 01:03 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]also_not_a_pipe, 2008-11-19 04:28 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]perfica, 2008-11-20 06:50 am UTC

[info]mooncalf
2008-11-19 01:04 am UTC (link)
YOU USED AN UNCOMMON WORD. YOU. YOU ARE A BAD RP'ER.

I love this wank. ;-;

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[info]veleda_k
2008-11-19 01:27 am UTC (link)
I consider myself fairly well-read

Ok. I consider myself a purple walrus. goo goo g'joob

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(no subject) - [info]issendai, 2008-11-19 01:35 am UTC
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[info]seiberwing
2008-11-19 01:32 am UTC (link)
Damnit, this was going to be mine. XO

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[info]xero_sky
2008-11-19 01:40 am UTC (link)
If at any point you find yourself going "is the average person likely to know what this word is", and the answer is "no"?
Find another way to write it.

Is there a number of syllables I should be shooting for here? Two or three? Is there a limit on the number of letters? Big words are bad, right? Got it. Gods know, I don't want to risk overtaxing the feeble mind of an "average person", especially since none of them can apparently use a dictionary.

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(no subject) - [info]shadowmonkey, 2008-11-19 02:26 am UTC
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[info]criticalcricket
2008-11-19 01:45 am UTC (link)
Don't use such ob-obscu...big words. You're dis-criminy...not being fair to stupid people!

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[info]kookaburra
2008-11-19 01:51 am UTC (link)
LOL, and this is why when I got into TF fandom, I decided to poke around the RP comms....and then ran the other way.

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[info]phosfate
2008-11-19 02:08 am UTC (link)
Poor fellow. I believe his autodidacticism to be insufficient. This may lead to more malapropisms.

Or do I mean autodidaction?

Anyway, dude should read more.

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(no subject) - [info]veleda_k, 2008-11-19 02:29 am UTC
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[info]blue_penguin
2008-11-19 02:10 am UTC (link)
Some people clearly didn't listen to enough Tom Chapin as kids.

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(no subject) - [info]megotelek, 2008-11-19 10:16 pm UTC

[info]hilohello
2008-11-19 02:16 am UTC (link)
Y'know, up until now I thought that "vainglorious peacock" was a fairly common phrase.

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(no subject) - [info]eiviiaru, 2008-11-19 02:44 am UTC
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[info]chaimonkey
2008-11-19 02:46 am UTC (link)
If at any point you find yourself going "is the average person likely to know what this word is", and the answer is "no"?
Find another way to write it.

Did SMeyer consult [info]mattybee when writing Twilight? Is this why she uses chagrin so damn much?

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(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2008-11-20 03:32 pm UTC
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[info]esther_a
2008-11-19 02:56 am UTC (link)
[info]mattybee really ought to do something about that sesquipedalophobia.

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[info]airawyn
2008-11-19 03:10 am UTC (link)
Ha, I knew I'd seen it somewhere recently: The Master Vainglorious, from the series 3 Doctor Who soundtrack.

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[info]hallidae
2008-11-19 03:13 am UTC (link)
::snort:: I once had a character named Vainglory, who was a massively self-righteous prick with a huge ego.

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(no subject) - [info]hallidae, 2008-11-19 03:24 am UTC

[info]tangentialone
2008-11-19 03:15 am UTC (link)
Nobody I know has ever used the word vainglorious or vainglory, and I know plenty of writing-type people.

I guess "writers" is another one of those fancy in-ter-lectual-type words that the average person isn't familiar with.

...Or are they trying to say that they know people who are like writers, but not actually writers?

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[info]catslash
2008-11-19 03:17 am UTC (link)
The upside of stuff like this is that I feel like a supergenius for being able to figure out what "vainglorious" means by, you know, looking at it. Is this a special power that only we select few wankas possess or what?

It also makes me want to start working words like "contumacious" into internet arguments. If "vainglorious" is hard, "contumacious" ought to make their heads explode. The contumacious twits.

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(no subject) - [info]doomsday, 2008-11-19 03:27 am UTC
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[info]laerwen
2008-11-19 03:26 am UTC (link)
Nobody I know has ever used the word vainglorious or vainglory, and I know plenty of writing-type people.

Let's translate:

My world is tiny and I have no desire to expand it. Neither should anyone else, especially "writing-type people"! I am threatened by people who point out my ignorance, which I will disguise with pithy remarks and contempt. My RP is too cool for people who know how to use Real Words!

It'd be sad if it wasn't so damn hilarious, lol.

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[info]the__ivorytower
2008-11-19 03:51 am UTC (link)
I think it's a lovely word. I'm saddened that people think it's fake. :(

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(no subject) - [info]atreyu, 2008-11-19 03:53 am UTC

[info]some_dude
2008-11-19 04:50 am UTC (link)
What gets me about cases like these is that the people complaining are doing so on their computers. I don't know about them, but my browser has a google toolbar right in it. When I encounter a word I don't know, before rather than mouthing off about it, I copy-paste it into the search and usually learn something. If only they would do the same.

In other, shorter, words: GOOGLE MOAR.

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[info]sparkysrevenge
2008-11-19 04:57 am UTC (link)
So much WTF in that post. I can't even read it, because... OH MY GOD. THE STUPID. It keeps on CYCLING. AND CYCLING.

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[info]wankaholic
2008-11-19 04:58 am UTC (link)
I totally posted a metaquote inspired by this wank.

Alas, it has not led to more wank, just people patting one another on the back and feeling superior because they read the dictionary for fun!

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(no subject) - [info]airawyn, 2008-11-19 05:26 am UTC
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[info]brennalarose
2008-11-19 04:58 am UTC (link)
I was wondering if this would show up.

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pastri_archy
2008-11-19 05:13 am UTC (link)
I'm trying to remember...did "vainglorious" get used in a Metallica song or a System of a Down song? 'Cause that's how I knew what that was.

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[info]quantumreality
2008-11-19 05:13 am UTC (link)
I loved that bit about the ampersand. LOLPWNED.

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[info]monty
2008-11-19 05:19 am UTC (link)
Results 1 - 100 of about 300,000 for vainglorious

Hmm...

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(no subject) - [info]vzg, 2008-11-22 01:59 pm UTC
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