Comment on How come people don't compliment other people on great word usage? If someone use the word lets say ecclesiastical or something like that they do not get complimented it shows they respect English.

MantisToboggon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Also all the intentional malapropisms and misspellings.

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• Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t really care for compliments tbh but to each their own. But it has become so rare now a days with the dumbing down of society people need a reminder once in a while you notice their intellect.

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  • big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    the use of uncommon words is not a sign of intelligence, it just means you know more words

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    • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      kind of like Malcom X reading the dictionary in prison?

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      • big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        he definitely did know more words if that’s all he did in prison lol

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  • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Doc Savage’s pulp adventures inspired Superman, Indiana Jones, and Batman. One of his assistants was Johnny, who loved using polysyllables. “I’ll be superamalgamated!” was his favorite exclamation.

    Cartoon legend Jack Kirby created The Newsboy Legion. One of the members was ‘Big Words,’ who tried to live up to his name.

    Fats Waller was a singer/song writer. In his comic, “You’re Feets Too Big” he explained that ‘your pedal extremities are too obnoxious.’

    These days, any scientific explanation in fiction is apt to be followed by “slower and in English.”

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, I’m a word nerd, but a vocabulary isn’t inherently about intellect. It’s about putting the effort in, because even people with severe learning disorders can still amass l arge vocabularies. Now, using them appropriately rather than just collecting them does take a little more effort and thought, but it’s also not some kind of feat of genius. Anyone with reasonable capacity can use fancy words appropriately.

    Don’t get me wrong, I fucking despise people that shit on the sheer joy that language can be. We don’t have to limit ourselves to “double plus” thinking or speech, and shouldn’t. And anyone trying to act like having a varied and sizable vocabulary is some kind of flaw can suck the peanuts out of my shit (or whatever varieties of legumes they prefer from my feces, if they feel so inclined).

    But the only thing vocabulary really indicates about a person is that they value their vocabulary.

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