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1599734 No.1599734 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: Words that you use alot, but when you use them, people ask you what they mean.

Hasty, detrimental, passe, recluse

>> No.1599738

bump

>> No.1599746

ramifications, but only when i am drunk, so its damn difficult to explain it.

>> No.1599754

Latter (seriously)

>> No.1599757

>>1599734
>alot

You don't belong here. Go back to /b/.

>> No.1599762

"Well, yeah" and "I mean". Not words, but anyway. Talking to me must be fucking horrible.

>> No.1599768

Preprimipara
Effulgence
Gallimaufry
Epexegetic

Christ, I try to make a bit of conversation with the girl at the check-out and all I get is a weird look :(

>> No.1599775

>>1599768
you are my hero. I've never had the courage to use some uncommon words in that situation

>> No.1599779

inb4, creepypasta, moar, hasanyonereallybeenfarasdecidedtouseevengowanttodolookmorelike

>> No.1599790

It's not so much people ask me what they mean as they think I'm being pretentious. But I don't really give a fuck anyway, so it's fine.

>> No.1599801

this thread is cancer

>> No.1599808
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1599808

I have a feeling you will like this alot...
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

>> No.1599814

>>1599768

Seriously? After 10 minutes of conversing with you, I'd want to pour my drink over your head.

>> No.1600126

Sans. Enrapture. "Of merit".

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1600726

>>1599808

>> No.1600753

>>1600726
>>1599808

what animal is that

>> No.1600759

FLUX

it's my special word

>> No.1600764

>>1599808
i've seen it before. it's one of the funniest articles on the net about bad english.

>> No.1600770

dialectic
perfidious (in writing)
any Latin phrase

>> No.1600787

No wonder you don't have any friends, /lit/.

>> No.1600814

>>1599746
>ramifications

Used this on a Friday night roundtable, my neighbor chimed in with 'the ramifications will never be the same' Our witty banter was rewarded with the girls' best impressions of bemusedowl.jpg

Fucking internet, stay away when chinwags

>> No.1600831

Derogatory

>> No.1600845

dumb kids at playground asking about 'hasty'. spit in their ears, OP.

>> No.1600850

irregardless

>> No.1600851

Asinine
Just had someone ask me what that was today.

>> No.1600853

POSTULATED
Mobilize
euhemerize

>> No.1600864

"acquiesce"

>> No.1602790

bump for amusement.

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>>1600851

>> No.1602833

My written skills are superb and I can read from text amazingly.

But speaking on the spot I am absolutely terrible. I have been noted for calling katanas, Ninja Samurai swords, and fire trucks, Fire Ambluances