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   briatollah said, 2 months ago

   When I was a kid other kids would tell me “Quit usin’ them big ol’ words an’ talkin’ all smart.”
   Years later I realized that it was only the stupid people teling me to quit “talkin’ all smart”.
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   Tirasmol said, 2 months ago

   I actually know people like this … that’s probably more of a reflection on me than on them though.
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   jukeofurl said, 2 months ago

   I’ve been criticized for using big words & er, um smaller w/say only 4 letters(+/-). The latter provoking the phrase -“only those with limited vocabulary use. . ..” Both complaints are specious. Abe Lincoln had a saying about pleasing people that fits. And I have one too – “f*** them.”
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   Pacopuddy said, 2 months ago

   @jukeofurl

   “. . . and the horse they rode in on!”
   

   
   A friend of mine (a research something-biologist) was criticised for using technical scientific terms when presenting her research at a departmental meeting.
   

   
   “Why can’t you use words we can understand?”
   “I thought I was.”
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   Coyoty said, 2 months ago

   Understanding what offends some people only encourages me to offend them furthermore.
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   Michael Ford said, 2 months ago

   “Ratio” barely has three syllables. I mean, you don’t say "ray-show.‘’ “Family,” however, is a stretch. Doesn’t everyone pronounce it, “famly?”
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   MrJimCos said, 2 months ago

   My oldest son has a voluminous vocabulary, and isn’t afraid to use it. One day after one of his bloviated rants, I asked him why he talked like that. He replied “Because I like the use of intelligent words.” To which I asked “Wouldn’t a better goal be the intelligent use of words?”
   He merely grunted.
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   paha_siga said, 2 months ago

   Doesn’t “another” have three syllables?
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   LizardPriest said, 2 months ago

   This comic exudes deja vu … or as I would say to this guy … has stuff we all seen before.
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    jimmyh43105 said, 2 months ago

    Pure gold as usual!
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    ekw said, 2 months ago

    well, I have to admit – it threw it off when the lunkhead used “inefficient”.
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    kaecispop said, 2 months ago

    What a moron! (That is only two syllables)
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    The Wolf In Your Midst said, 2 months ago

    @ekw

    Yeah, that’s four whole syllables! He should’ve said “wasteful”.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 2 months ago

    Just about anyone I knew, including my Mother, wanted me to speak like other people. I said “no” that words are there to say something and to add nuance. Anti-intellectualism, it is still alive and will in this benighted country.
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    The Wolf In Your Midst said, 2 months ago

    @Night-Gaunt49

    It’s stories like that that make me grateful that my mother encouraged me to learn all that I could- and to put that knowledge to use whenever and however I could.
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