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Anonymous Fri Sep 14 09:31:49 2018 No.11783304 [Reply] [Original]

Why do Americans create high syllable count words that are actually just synonyms of low syllable count English words?

>>	ري كظ R Y · Q V S S !KNDY.F27NY Fri Sep 14 09:34:50 2018 No.11783313 >>11783304 YOUR QUESTION IS VIRTUALLY NONSENSICAL.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 09:39:50 2018 No.11783321 >>11783313 Your answer is in allcaps. Cog-ni-zant: 3.5 syllables. A-ware: 2 syllables. Why did Americans invent Cognizant when Aware has exactly the same meaning?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 09:46:07 2018 No.11783339 >>11783321 Their country is basically just larping. >Be British colony >Pretend to be independent >Be protestant >Pretend to be Christian >Be jewish slave cattle >Pretend to be the land of the free

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 09:49:17 2018 No.11783354 >>11783321 >3.5 syllables You’re a fucking retard >>11783304 >Americans You’re a fucking retard too, cognizant isn’t from America, blame the English for it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 09:50:46 2018 No.11783360 >>11783304 >Why do Americans create >>11783321 >Americans invent Cognizant do you even etymology mr trash quality bait

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 09:53:08 2018 No.11783368 >>11783354 The g~ is counted as a half-syllable retard. >>11783354 >>11783360 Okay I see it's from the 14th century but that doesn't explain why Americans use it in preference to Aware.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 10:15:21 2018 No.11783447 >>11783368 Your country doesn't have synonyms?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 10:16:37 2018 No.11783453 >>11783368 Why didn't you use "instead" instead of "in preference to', could have saved yourself 3 syllables.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 10:22:59 2018 No.11783472 >>11783304 Because USA is destroying the west with their return-to-infancy ideology.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 11:28:43 2018 No.11783701 >>11783453 Because "in preference to" conveys more information than "instead of".

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 11:34:06 2018 No.11783714 Because cognizant doesn't mean aware. It's something closer to a materialistic view of world rather than spiritual awareness and so on.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 11:34:20 2018 No.11783717 >>11783304 English is not a curated language

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 11:36:22 2018 No.11783726 >>11783701 ta-da

Anonymous Fri Sep 14 11:37:06 2018 No.11783728

>>11783701
In that respect, 'cognizant' conveys a different sort of information from 'aware.' Generally speaking its ignorant to ask why someone uses big words when they could use smaller words. Language-construction in real-time isn't as cookie-cutter as 'I'm going to use a larger syllable words here...' it's an incredibly complex process and often the size of the word plays no role in the user's choice of the word. Also take into account poetry, where a poet might've wanted to imply 'aware' in a particular case where 'cognizant' fit better metrically.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 13:24:32 2018 No.11784135 >>11783304 >Why do Americans Guaranteed replies kek

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 16:27:21 2018 No.11785015 >>11783304 Gee, it's almost like having more expressions might help clear up interpersonal language semantics.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 16:32:23 2018 No.11785029 seppos need to overcompensate for rabid anti-intellectualism

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 16:39:18 2018 No.11785056 >>11783368 a syllable is a syllable, you can't say it's only a half

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 16:40:30 2018 No.11785060 because it's stimulating to use different words, even if they have very similar definitions to simpler ones

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 16:59:39 2018 No.11785112 >>11783304 YES SUPERFLUOUS (hehe)

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 17:13:02 2018 No.11785173 >>11783321 >3.5 lmao

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 17:26:49 2018 No.11785217 >>11783728 Cognizant is a butchery of a word. They took a perfectly good latin stem, cognoscere, and fucked it up.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 17:32:30 2018 No.11785242 >>11785029 If you think anti-intellectualism is bad in America, wait till you go to Australia.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 17:55:26 2018 No.11785335 >>11783321 > 3.5 Where's the 0.5?

Anonymous Fri Sep 14 18:01:54 2018 No.11785362

How the fuck has no one given a straight answer?

Cognizant entered through Latin. Aware entered through German.

English is a bastard mutt language stitched together like Frankenstein's monster. We use the big French/Latin words when we want to sound smart and the small German/Anglo words when we're speaking casually.

Thus the difference between fuck & fornicate.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 19:07:19 2018 No.11785660 >>11785362 This. English is an amalgamation of other European languages. It’s no wonder semiotics started as a French pursuit and is borderline confusing within an English/American context.

Anonymous Fri Sep 14 21:54:50 2018 No.11786274

>>11785362
This is valid but op is also ignoring subtle differences in meaning between words that ostensibly have the same definition. If I call something a stench, it means a smell. Aroma means a smell too, but what I'm communicating is drastically changed. Cognizant and aware are closer related than that, but if I hear someone say they're cognizant of something it usually means they're more focused on it, and consciously paying attention to it in a way that "aware" doesn't imply. A good sign that somebody is a shit writer is when they use uncommon words like that but clearly don't know those connotations. That's what makes somebody sound like they wrote a paragraph and randomly switched out words with synonyms they found in a thesaurus.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 22:01:36 2018 No.11786305 >>11786274 Good post.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 22:59:07 2018 No.11786530 >>11785056 based

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 23:03:37 2018 No.11786547 >>11785362 >Implying fuck and fornicate mean the same thing >implying any synonym pairs actually mean the same thing You people need to get a fucking education. All of your supposed reading doesn't seem to be getting the job done.

Anonymous Fri Sep 14 23:15:26 2018 No.11786592

>>11783304
because it sounds better.
IE
>These fags are barely cognizant.
sounds better than
>These fags are barely aware.
due to the -ly and the hard consonant sound at the beginning of "cognizant." -ly and the soft vowel sound of "aware" makes it sound like you have a stutter when reading aloud.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 23:16:16 2018 No.11786597 >>11783339 But Protestantism is based on the same ooga-booga sandman writings as Catholicism.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 23:43:10 2018 No.11786711 >>11783304 We should ban aware and cognizant and replace them with consciousfulthereof.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 23:45:22 2018 No.11786719 >>11785362 Every language is a bastard mutt language.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 15 01:07:53 2018 No.11786993 >>11785362 Only rootless Amerimutts say this. English before the “englightenment” was a beautiful Anglo-Saxon and Old Norman pure lovechild qt waifu.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 15 01:19:41 2018 No.11787016 >>11783304 10% of the time they're legitimately used based on differing connotations for different fields and that kind of shit. other 90% is larping of some sort

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 15 01:22:56 2018 No.11787024 >>11783304 It's taken to mean you're inwardly or covertly aware >>11783321 Guy you're replying to is doing satire, idiot

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 15 01:26:17 2018 No.11787034 File: 8 KB, 225x224, 1512299920154.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11783304 holy fuck she's pretty. thanks for the reminder that i'll never get a girlfriend anon

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 15 02:22:24 2018 No.11787194 >>11783304 Some words have the same technical definition but carry different context or imply certain ideas

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 15 02:26:07 2018 No.11787204 >>11783304 because latin and german both own turf on the language, just as anglo-saxons, welsh (and at one point the french) scots and irish own turf in great britain.

Anonymous Sat Sep 15 02:44:37 2018 No.11787247

>>11783304
Americans are active in promoting these nonsense words, but ultimately it's academics in general who invent them. They have to make new words and terms otherwise their simplistic observations or complete nonsense would be far easier to oust.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 15 02:47:34 2018 No.11787258 >>11783304 t. Chinese person https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vExjnn_3ep4

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 15 02:48:36 2018 No.11787262 File: 33 KB, 358x358, 1536932680488.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11786597 >But Protestantism is based on the same ooga-booga sandman writings as Catholicism.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 15 03:40:43 2018 No.11787371 File: 24 KB, 500x500, dden.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11783304 I want to enter all of her holes

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 15 04:53:18 2018 No.11787533 can i smell this cutie????

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