What can you tell someone who constantly uses big words?
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GiraffeyedDonor-ish
ANSWERS: 47
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Lehman's terms, please!
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That they're being a bit verbose.
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I tell them that using all those .49 cent words is impressive but makes them appear smart-assed to us common folk.
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Next time, in promulgating your esoteric cogitations, or articulating your superficial sentimentalities and amicable, philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communications possess a clarified conciseness, a compacted comprehensibleness, coalescent consistency, and a concatenated cogency. Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement, and asinine affectations. Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity. Shun double-entendres, prurient jocosity, and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent!! ** ** In other words, talk plainly, briefly, naturally, sensibly, truthfully, purely. Keep from slang; don't put on airs; say what you mean; mean what you say. And, don't use big words!"
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grammatically obsessive
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A couple of things, either they are well educated, or want to be seen that way. Either way it's an opportunity for the rest of us to learn new words, which is never a bad thing.
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KISS Keep It Simple Stupid !!!!!
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You can tell them they're using :insert some word: incorrectly. That sufficiently embarrasses people, and is oftentimes the case. My two favorites are peruse (for some reason people think it has the exact opposite meaning) and irregardless (which isn't a word)
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Huh?
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what?
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You can tell them that their lexiphanicism isn't impressive. Lexiphanicism is the use of uncommon, pretentious words. I hate when people try to sound smart by using 'big words' that no one has heard of that they know would require an explanation. They're not trying to really communicate; they're only trying to appear intelligent.
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I guess you could tell them that the important thing in communication is clarity, not maximum word size. ;)
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You could quote Benjamin Disraeli to him: "He is a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself."
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I would try to learn from them.Large words are like sentences.
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I can't tell 'em anything without appearing to be a hypocrite. I keep forgetting that I had a larger vocabulary at age 9 than most American adults.
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English Please
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You slap them hard on the back of the head and when they say ouch, smile and say now that I understood, stop being Mr. Wizard
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Tell them "Slow down professor. Nobody loves to hear you talk, quite the way that YOU do."
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I'd say "chill out dude." Stop the superciliousness and talk some common words. You dig?
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That they're an accomplished linguist, and they have excellent command over their vocabulary.
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Tell them they better stop using such big words....before they choke on one!
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Hm, it doesn't bother me, but I've always had some problems simplifying my language. I'm not saying this to brag, but when I was 9 or 10, I went through a series of tests because my parents feared I might have autism. I didn't, but they did find out that my verbal iq was somewhere around 140. I've been able to force it a bit down since then, but sometimes it kinda clicks for me, and my classmates start to look weird at me :/. Fortunetaly, I'm hindered by a limited vocalbury when speaking English..
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Tell them to shut up mid-sentence. Actually, that'd be a good thing to do to anyone.
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Let me get my dictionary...
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Well, it all depends on the word..sometimes one particular word best states what the person who is using it means..for example, the word "exacerbate"..it means "to make things worse"..now, you have one word that takes the place of 4 words..that is in effect simplifying things, isn't it? I love words...I was an English major...I like to say exactly what I mean, and sometimes that requires the use of words that seem "big-time" or unnecessarily unusual..the fact is, the word communicates exactly what I intend and to know such a word and purposely avoid using it seems cowardly to me. :)
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Hey, pal,..can you translate that into colloquial Yahoo?
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Size really is irrelevant.
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Spell it!
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Do you come with a dictionary?
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stop
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Would you please say that in plan English now?????
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"It's pretty assumptious of you to believe that being a sesquipedalian in your daily vernacular makes us believe you're intelligent!" Thank you!!
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Say what?
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Ok... Now, repeat that so MOST people can understand it.
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I would say - " I find that when you use big words instead of smaller ones I lose the point in what you are trying to say so could you repeat it in clearer English please?"
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Antidisestablishmentarianisim
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Don't choke on them!
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shut up!
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What are you a Chicago alderman? (they constantly use big words incorrectly). Get thee to a Struck & White book! http://www.quilldriverbooks.com/reports/strunk__whites.htm
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ask them what the words mean. Never could hurt to expand your vocab.
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they are smart.
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Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.
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Eschew obfuscations please!!
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speak english or i will defenstrate you ...:)dictionary.com is always handy:)
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Shut up?
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An educated person will try to impress you with big words. A smart person will try to impress you with what he has to say. A wise person will ask you what you have to say.
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An educated person will try to impress you with big words. A smart person will try to impress you with what he has to say. A wise person will ask you what you have to say.
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