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[Anonymous No.14169828]

I'm being bullied because I used "ex nihilo" in a sentence
sen hlep frens

[Anonymous No.14169833]

[Anonymous No.14169835]

>>14169828
Congrats on the use of latinate phrases in your speech.

[Anonymous No.14169840]

If you used it right and you're beinf called a nerd you can easily parody them by calling them dumb.

"Me grug! Me no like hard word! Make brain hurt!!!"

Something like that.

[Anonymous No.14169870]

Never use a Latin word when a good Anglo-Saxon one will do.

[Anonymous No.14169878]

>>14169840
>>14169835
tanks fr suprot frens
>>14169870
am no dirty agnlo

[Anonymous No.14169883]

>>14169870
Thanks, Orwell.

[Anonymous No.14169909]

>>14169828
I had this problem in middle school, albeit to a lesser degree. My friends used to complain that they had to think about my jokes and I was terrible at their dumb/crude humor.

I remember one time I said I had a hunger headache while at my friend's house and he was like what the fuck. Really I was just trying to politely tell him that I was hungry and that I wanted to go down to the pantry for some food. Not sure who was the socially dumb one of the two of us in the situation. Probably both of us.

[Anonymous No.14169914]

>>14169835
>>14169840
Stop giving bad advice. Latin words are used by people who wish to obfuscate what they're really saying so they can easily detach themselves from their ideas at the first sign of conflict. Academia has created this great lie that it's more virtuous to be an objective observer than to stand behind your own ideas, and they use the thought grinder that is the Latin language to achieve this end. English is a finely crafted prism, where thoughts come in like a beam of light and come out like a clearly defined rainbow. When you speak Latin I automatically assume you're afraid to say what you really believe and I stop listening. Speak English to English speakers or keep it to yourself. Nobody is impressed by passivity but other passive cowards.

[Anonymous No.14169915]

>>14169828
>>14169909
Don’t associate yourself with brainlets (unless they are women and you’re trying to fuck them)

[Anonymous No.14169936]

>>14169914
>English is a finely crafted prism, where thoughts come in like a beam of light and come out like a clearly defined rainbow
Gay af my dude

[Anonymous No.14169980]

>>14169936
>Gay af my dude
And yet it's the only language in which you can expressly exactly that colorful sentiment of yours in just 5 words. Checkmate, faggot.

[Anonymous No.14170080]

>>14169936
>>14169980

[Anonymous No.14170163]

>>14170080
Shit is gold. Kek

[Anonymous No.14170167]

EX NIHILO
ALEA IACTA EST
T O H U V A B O H U

[Anonymous No.14170174]

>>14170080
Whoa so this is the pow’r of Aenglish

[Anonymous No.14170196]

>>14169828
Some day they’ll think that somebody they know said a sentence with “ex nihilo” in it, and they’ll try to remember who, but they won’t be able to. When they’re on their deathbeds, they will think of all of their triumphs and regrets, and there will be no room for the time that anon said “ex nihilo.” Time will forgive you of every mistake. Take it easy, fren.

[Anonymous No.14170243]

>>14170080
My fucking sides hahaha.

[Anonymous No.14170258]

>>14169914
Faggot who can't appreciate aesthetic qualities in language

[Anonymous No.14170398]

>>14169828
it okay fren don't listen to the bullies

[Anonymous No.14170405]

>>14169914
english is a bug language for bug people

[Anonymous No.14170466]

>>14170405
>>14170258
>>14169828
English is a fag language but randomly dropping latin or other non english phrases into a english conversation is pretentious faggotry

[Anonymous No.14170476]

>>14170080

[Anonymous No.14170528]

>>14170466
Its pretenious if you are an anxious dumb. That's all.

[Anonymous No.14170536]

That’s rough breh. I used burgeoning and even that made me feel like a pseud.

[Anonymous No.14170575]

>>14169828
bullied how
what was the sentence

[Anonymous No.14170611]

>>14170466
sīc vērum est quod dīcis tū, tantummodo Latīnē loquī optumum esse crēdō, sed cum cōnantur istī hominēs sermōnem Anglicam implēre verbīs locūtiōnibusque Latīnīs, hoc pol fit sat pessimum in modum utī opīnor egomet.

[Anonymous No.14171485]

>>14169828

You're better than them and they know it. Bask in the good feeling.

I did a stint in a Wal*Mart during college. One of my co-workers said to another, a construction along the following lines: "[concept x] is like [similar concept y, which does not stand athwart concept x], it's ironic." I was unable to contain myself, and I calmly said "That isn't ironic, it's apropos." She instantly retorted "Okay, joe college!" I felt REALLY good just then.

Same job, another interaction: a manager asked if I wanted to go full time (because I was good). I said I'd like to maintain the status quo. Her: "Status quo? What's that?" This time, I bit my tongue partly out of politeness, but mostly because of the power differential and since I actually wanted to keep the job for a bit: "I'd like to keep things the way they are now, thanks!" Her: "Oh, okay! Got it."

[Anonymous No.14171549]

>>14171485
Have you ever conceived the possibility of hanging yourself till death rather than continuing to live?

[Anonymous No.14171567]

>>14169828
You have us lil zoomer fren
don't be yourself in the real world ever

[Anonymous No.14171601]

>>14171549

You seem upset, like the "joe college" woman. I wonder why.

[Anonymous No.14171884]

>>14169914
> who wish to obfuscate
> obfuscate
> From the participle stem of Late Latin obfuscāre, from Latin ob- + fuscāre, present active infinitive of fuscō (“I darken”).

Why not just say hide? Or are you obfuscating something, anon?

[Anonymous No.14171892]

>>14169828
caring what others think about yourself?
What are you an Immanentist

[Anonymous No.14171919]

>>14171884
o o o f f

[Anonymous No.14171920]

>>14169828
Fuck normies OP