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Anonymous Tue Feb 25 02:03:26 2020 No.14784815 [Reply] [Original]

What are some words I can use to sound smart?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 02:07:31 2020 No.14784830 >>14784815 >bourgeois

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 02:08:48 2020 No.14784834 dialectic

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj Tue Feb 25 02:11:11 2020 No.14784840 Ambivalence Congruent Dichotomy Lugubrious Licentious Bon vivant

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj Tue Feb 25 02:13:36 2020 No.14784849 File: 315 KB, 1080x1350, 1582614816558.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Callipygian

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 02:15:27 2020 No.14784857 Apollonian and Epicurean.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 02:17:33 2020 No.14784865 The way you sound smart isn’t just using flashy words nobody knows, but regular ones creatively/flexibly

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 02:21:53 2020 No.14784876 >>14784857 *dionysian I’m such a retard

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 02:23:50 2020 No.14784881 Salubrious , to quote a certain someone.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 02:26:31 2020 No.14784886 >>14784815 Niggardly

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 02:27:28 2020 No.14784891 >>14784815 Vertiginous is my favorite pseud word desu

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 02:30:08 2020 No.14784898 >>14784830 Opposite effect

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 02:32:35 2020 No.14784903 >tfw people at work think I sound sophisticated >tfw I really just spent too much time on 4chins and started to forget my native tongue, so I constantly replace common words with anglicisms

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 02:33:35 2020 No.14784906 >>14784815 The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 02:37:28 2020 No.14784917 >>14784815 Yes. No. You just gotta know when to say them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 03:00:35 2020 No.14784963 >>14784815 unbeknownst

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 03:03:25 2020 No.14784968 >>14784903 >tfw you think other people think you sound sophisticated

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 03:09:51 2020 No.14784984 File: 1.07 MB, 1920x1080, 71A9BDAA-E09C-428F-9E37-3224710590CD.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14784815

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 03:18:15 2020 No.14785003 Nomenclature.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 09:44:50 2020 No.14786064 Pontificate Inductive In lieu Postulating

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 09:48:43 2020 No.14786083 >>14784849 I'd replace my air conditioner with that ass and breath in her gaseous release all day

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 09:52:21 2020 No.14786100 None of these words works in the daily life. Something you can use to sound smart is >vice versa >et cetera >pleonasm >degringolade And all can be used in normal conversations.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 09:55:33 2020 No.14786108 File: 1.67 MB, 472x360, 1581750237827.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14784857 >>14784876 Thanks for the laugh.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 09:57:32 2020 No.14786111 File: 121 KB, 960x720, 1582453836470.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14784968 >tfw other people think you think other people think you sound sophisticated

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 09:58:42 2020 No.14786115 >>14786100 First two are pretty common though

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 10:02:30 2020 No.14786134 >>14786115 Maybe it's because I'm from Europe, but just about every word posted so far is ordinary.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 10:06:20 2020 No.14786151 I think words like malefactor and turgid are good for this. Most people probably don’t use/haven’t heard them but since they sound like their meaning normalfags will half get them so you will look at once smart and non-obscurantist/pretentious.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 10:26:36 2020 No.14786244 >>14784815 malefactor perspicacious parsimonious queer (nonsexually) indefatigable faggot (lumberjack-sexually)

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 10:28:29 2020 No.14786251 >>14786134 >degringolade Come one really, are you saying that’s an every day word in Europe.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 10:29:54 2020 No.14786259 Intellectuals these days love "parochial", "problematic", and "systemic".

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 10:48:06 2020 No.14786355 >>14784815 chialistic quondam ostensible ipso facto par excellence

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 10:51:19 2020 No.14786366 Pulchritudinous

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 10:56:09 2020 No.14786394 File: 3.52 MB, 750x1334, 2FFA3DB8-1D9A-4AA4-AE06-3A0468773482.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I just critiqued a story for my workshop that used the word psithurism. ...no

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 11:31:49 2020 No.14786529 File: 102 KB, 618x800, 1581957573571.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14786251 It is for me (a smart person)

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 11:40:35 2020 No.14786577 File: 110 KB, 634x482, 1581985228268.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14784815 Nigger.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 11:42:01 2020 No.14786584 >>14784815 Just read the track names from the band Carcass

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 11:43:07 2020 No.14786592 >>14784865 You are right anon, this post is so potato

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 12:03:30 2020 No.14786664 >>14786529 Give me an everyday sentence you would say to a cashier

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 12:08:48 2020 No.14786695 >>14786664 "Hi, I'll go with a g-gringolade" "You mean Gatorade, sir?" "S-shut up!"

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 16:02:54 2020 No.14787849 >>14786695 "Fucking Mexican freeloaders! You're takin' all our jobs!" "We're taking Amexico back, gringolade"

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 16:05:15 2020 No.14787866 File: 376 KB, 2000x1333, armond.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] pick up scrabble and learn some short by uncommon words, they have to be short so people can't call you pretentious by using big words

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 16:06:29 2020 No.14787874 >>14784857 Based butters

Anonymous Tue Feb 25 16:08:55 2020 No.14787884

lets play a game /lit/

I'll say a word, and then you come up with a new word that starts with the last TWO letters of my word. rinse and repeat

the only rule is that the last two letters of your word cannot be both consonants

I'll start: onomatopoeia

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 16:15:49 2020 No.14787934 >>14787884 >onomatopoeia iambize

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 16:15:57 2020 No.14787936 >>14787884 iapetic

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 16:20:05 2020 No.14787964 >>14787849 You tried, buddy. Unfortunately, that just wasn't funny at all.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 16:20:58 2020 No.14787975 File: 81 KB, 1080x1331, Ancient Based..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Unbeknownst

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 16:21:46 2020 No.14787978 >>14787934 >>14787936 nice dictionary you cheaters

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 19:51:01 2020 No.14789190 File: 60 KB, 1024x913, 1582286604267.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14786664 Hello, I want to buy these items. De-gringo-lade over there, with the sombrero, will pay for them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 19:53:50 2020 No.14789200 Orthogonal

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 19:54:46 2020 No.14789207 pastiche

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 19:57:59 2020 No.14789231 pleb chad kek lad kino (the girlies really dig this one) desu brainlet cringe pseud but if you really want to sound smart, use "unironically."

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 20:38:43 2020 No.14789463 >>14784815 Furthermore

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 20:40:15 2020 No.14789472 >>14784815 calling normies loquacious

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 21:30:46 2020 No.14789685 >epistemic >calculus >stochastic >quorum >salubrious >entropy >sesquipedalian >eschatological >balustrade >sacerdotal

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 21:50:13 2020 No.14789792 >>14784815 Based & Redpilled, Cringe, that's about all you need.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 21:51:49 2020 No.14789806 the cats on /mu/ have an impressive vocabulary

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 21:52:19 2020 No.14789808 Lugubrious

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 21:52:38 2020 No.14789812 >>14784815 Neoplatonistic

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 22:03:16 2020 No.14789881 Midwit

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 25 22:12:02 2020 No.14789921 How do I learn to speak like Frasier?

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