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	kadath 2008-11-19 05:25 am UTC (link)
	I'm impressed at how implacably ignorant mattybee is. Usually when someone gets called out for being unusually dumb on the Internet, they backpedal. Not mattybee! He's drawn his line in the sand at grade-school literacy, and by God, he's going to hold it! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	tachikoma01 2008-11-20 10:20 pm UTC (link)
	I want to see mattybee take the GRE. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	visp 2008-11-23 05:04 am UTC (link)
	Agreed. His whole argument can be summed up as "I'm ignorant, and you should be too! Stop using big words that make me feel stupid." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	galletas 2008-11-19 06:26 am UTC (link)
	As a somewhat related story, I'm in a persuasive speaking class this semester and I got a B on my first speech. (I'm usually an A student.) My teacher told me to my face that it would have been an A if I hadn't used such big words....like "secular non-theocratic government." And it's a 300 level college course. This made me sad. :( (Reply to this)(Thread)

	rachelmap 2008-11-19 10:16 am UTC (link)
	Now if he'd complained that "secular non-theocratic government" was a tautology, then he might have come off as less of a dumbass. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	herongale 2008-11-19 07:05 am UTC (link)
	I missed the stern memo admonishing all writers to follow the Associate Press Stylebook. I guess from now on all stories, poems, novels, texts, papers, and dictionaries must conform to 5th grade reading level standards. ;__; (Reply to this)(Thread)

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kagutaba
2008-11-19 08:52 am UTC (link)

I need to use that word more often.

If writers started worrying about what the average reader knows, judging by my friends/classmates' writing, all books would devolve into "c spot run run spot run" Proper spelling and punctuation excluded because it may scare and confuse those only familiar with text messaging.

Really. Half the time it's easy to figure shit out from context alone. If that doesn't help, just get a friggin' dictionary. Is expanding our minds really so scary?

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	quinctia 2008-11-19 09:43 am UTC (link)
	I'm kinda sad I missed that whole ampersand thing when it came up. Because I can't be the only one who learned that word at about age 4 from Wheel of Fortune. (Reply to this)

	teruhiko 2008-11-19 11:16 am UTC (link)
	"Writing-type people" says it all, really. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	bride_of_lister 2008-11-19 12:41 pm UTC (link)
	I do have to point out that the Transformers fandom is full of words that don't exist, like pedes and energon, and henceforth the fic must fold it's self into a vocabulary black hole. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	panthea 2008-11-19 01:53 pm UTC (link)
	Wait, why is "op is the brp" in the tags? (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	mary_mac 2008-11-19 02:35 pm UTC (link)
	Aw bless. clearly this poor sod has never encountered a Victorian in full flow. honestly did not think anyone had ever actually used* the word 'antidisestablishmentarian' out loud until I found it in Hansard a week back* (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	aeka 2008-11-19 05:52 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe you should try using words that other people, I don't know, actually use? That seems like the real problem here. Hey now, I use 'vainglorious'. It's one of my favourite words to use. :( (Reply to this)

soupspooks
2008-11-19 06:36 pm UTC (link)

You know, I always boggle at how incredibly sloppy some people are with language. Laziness, deliberate ignorance . . . d'you know I've been berated for insisting that no, I'm not taking the bus, I'm taking the subway train. Apparently making the distinction between two utterly different forms of transport is "too picky", and that I "know what (she) means."

Which I don't, of course, because I'm not telepathic.

Actually, that's an interesting point. Maybe all this linguistic atrophy is because humanity is slowly evolving mind-to-mind speach, and words are becoming obsolte.

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	eldritch 2008-11-19 07:42 pm UTC (link)
	He didn't do very well on the SAT, did he. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	talec 2008-11-20 12:07 am UTC (link)
	Oh, and she's talking about Terrorsaur? Terrorsaur is pretty much the definition of vainglorious. :'D (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	napalmnacey 2008-11-20 02:14 am UTC (link)
	Goodness gracious. She's like my polar opposite when it comes to verbiage. I have "Word A Day" emails sent to me because I love finding out new words that I've never heard of before (and get a smug sense of superiority (however false) when I know the word already). (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	silrana 2008-11-20 11:47 am UTC (link)
	I had to explain to my husband last night why I laughed so hard when I came across 'vaingloriously' in a book I was reading (a book published in 2000, I might add, not some ancient tome). He didn't believe me. (Reply to this)

	tachikoma01 2008-11-20 10:19 pm UTC (link)
	Wait, if I don't know what something is, and my friends don't know what it is, that means it doesn't exist?? Awesome! Because I don't know what stupid people on the internet are, and neither do my friends. (Reply to this)

	kelmendi 2008-11-21 07:55 pm UTC (link)
	This is reminding me of the time my brother's eighth grade English teacher marked him down for making up words. The words he made up? 'Pommel' and 'Tome'. (Reply to this)

	criticalcricket 2008-11-21 09:53 pm UTC (link)
	I stumbled across a Vainglory Clan on Gaia a few minutes ago and giggled to myself. If Gaia knows a word, then any naysayers really lost their leg to stand on (as if they had one in the first place). (Reply to this)

	vzg 2008-11-22 01:45 pm UTC (link)
	I'm guessing this is the sort of person who would insist that "gloat" is a big word and would think that he was being insulted if someone called him charismatic. But at least the first few people were just being dorks after the initial understanding, and the second one... well, she has a very nice personality. (Reply to this)

	everstar 2008-11-23 12:49 am UTC (link)
	Belatedly, my ex had to take the GRE, and when he got back from it, he was complaining how difficult the vocabulary section was. "Why does it matter what 'loquacious' means?" he said. I said, "It means 'talkative.'" "You would know that, wouldn't you," he said. (Reply to this)

	cazrolime 2008-11-26 10:01 pm UTC (link)
	I feel like I want to propose to cyberninjasio. Except that I'd probably aim for something like their comment and end up edging out onto the wrong side of purple. ♥ (Reply to this)

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