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1673592 No.1673592 [Reply] [Original]

What purpose do big words serve if people can't understand them?

>> No.1673604

In this day and age, it has become a form of antidisestablishmentarianism.

>> No.1673607

They make you look smart,so you can feel better than other people.

>> No.1673608

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

>> No.1673611

oh god stop i have hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

>> No.1673614

You can confuse your foes.

>> No.1673633
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1673633

To be more accurate, comprehensive and not cliche'd way.

Your ignorance towards vocabulary shouldn't be a concern of the author.

It is the eternal desire, nay, the duty! of the author to be as flagrantly magniloquent as he wishes.

>> No.1673656

>>1673633
you are a massive faggot, and thesaurus-ed that last word

>> No.1673663
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>>1673656
>>1673656

>thesaurus-ed
>atrocious grammar
>didn't know what 'wishes' meant

>> No.1673679

>>1673633
look at this dumbass kid

>> No.1673681

Stephen R Donaldson is so guilty of this faggotry OP. I think he has a word a day calendar or something, his later books are just ridiculous.

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>>1673679

Another meaningless flail from the worst tripfag on /lit/.

>> No.1673701

>>1673684
just shut up truman.

>> No.1673705
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>>1673701
>>1673701
>>1673701

>> No.1673710

>>1673705
it is imperative that you stop posting ugly pictures.

>> No.1673712

>>1673592

Perplexing, indeed. The incomprehensibilities that people are inevitably plagued with do, in fact, seem to bring the purposefulness of lengthy words into question. However, the simplification of the actual definitions of the words in question present, perhaps, the more intriguing perplexity.

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>>1673710

>ugly pictures remind her of how socially dysfunctional and physically unattractive she really is, shattering her self-deceived idealised reality where she is the sexually empowered and confident female intellectual surrounded by immature, misogynist Neanderthals.

>> No.1673739

>>1673736
i am at least 8/10 but very sickly

>> No.1673742
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>>1673739

So maybe you're just socially dysfunctional because of some developmental disorder.

how come you're sickly? you mean like thin?

>> No.1673746

>>1673701

>start argument
>can't finish so "JUST SHUTUP LOL"

lolwomen indeed

>> No.1673748

>>1673739
pics or it didn't happen

>> No.1673750

>>1673742
heart problem and pneumonia when i was young. doing okay now, kind of.

>> No.1673751

>>1673746
there is no argument. i am merely dictating my thoughts from a position of superiority.

>> No.1673753

>>1673739
is that you in the screencap from the other board as well? the brown one? or is it included as another example of a female behaving like you?

>> No.1673755

>>1673753
direct all your inane questions at truman i have nothing to do with this

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>>1673750
>>1673751

Being forced to retreat into the world of intellectual creativity may make your feelings of superiority amongst materialistic younger american girls legitimate, but here it's just a complex.

>> No.1673758

>>1673753
>>1673753

>http://booksandpals.blogspot.com/2011/03/greek-seaman-jacqueline-howett.html

Jacqueline Howett isn't Onionring, but she might as well be.

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>>1673757
>implying i measure myself against others to gain any sense of what i am

i am multitude

>> No.1673769

>>1673758
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDtj4uT2eCg
isn't truman but it might as well be.

>> No.1673803

>>1673769
I don't think Truman is that good at training pigs...

>> No.1673804

>>1673803
well, it does say smartest pig not the pig with best leadership skill

>> No.1673806

>>1673804
Ah, so you were referring to the pig...
Your point?

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>>1673769

Pigs are actually quite intelligent ...

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>>1673806
open wide

>> No.1673826

>>1673816
I'm all ears.
Say it, be explicit about what kind of defect you were trying to point out. I think Truman was pretty explicit (and right) about what he found funny of your comments.

>> No.1673831 [DELETED] 

>>1673814
oh of course.

>>1673826
hahaha oh wow okayyyy maybe i'll construct a formal proof of truman's stoopidness in my free time!

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>>1673814
oh of course..

>>1673826
hahaha oh wow okayyyy maybe i'll construct a formal proof of truman's stoopidness in my free time!

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>>1673831
>>1673834
oh wow.

>> No.1673843

>>1673836
you are not helping, hon

>> No.1673852

>>1673834
>You're "stoopid" for laughing at my inability to respond with proper arguments when I'm butthurt and compare me to another hysterical cunt who reacts just like me.

>> No.1673856

>>1673852
lol what a retard.

>> No.1673870

>>1673856
why argue to prove wrong when you can just call people "a retard" or "stoopid"?
Philosophy ftw

>> No.1673877

>>1673870
your prove me wrong attitude is the death of philosophy in case you dont understand, which is obviously the case because you dont understand etc etc

>> No.1673881

>>1673870
>why argue to prove wrong when you can just call people "a retard" or "stoopid"?
Believe it or not people who know how to argue sometimes don't want to explicate their point to clueless retards. It is an act of good faith so someone like Truman wouldn't get away with this because no-one has any reason to think he knows the slightest thing about anything, whereas sometimes Onionring can get away with it, knowing one or two things. Any time I do it you can be sure I am essentially saying "I would be quicker inclined to spell it out to the shit on my shoe than waste my time on your moron ass" because I have a reputation as being the most intelligent individual on the face of the planet.

>> No.1673890

>>1673881
cute, but replace 'thing' with 'philosophy' in your post.

>> No.1673895

>>1673877
omg I killed philosophy :(
>>1673881
I understand but that's funny to see someone wasting his time reacting like a child when he just could ignore the stupid ones.

>> No.1673897

hhahahahaha BOOBS

>> No.1673901

>>1673895
>he just could ignore the stupid ones.
Or laugh at them and call them names, which is both cathartic and entertaining.

>> No.1673903

>>1673895
just shut up too

>> No.1673908

because intelligent people like to use words that describe what normally several words would with other intellectuals. to save time. and to express certain ideas that are otherwise not expressed. some big words are useless and pretentious. but not all.

>> No.1673913

>>1673903
No. U mad?
>>1673901
Well, if you're going to waste your time with the intellectually inferior to laugh at them you can do it with some style, making obvious how your greatness eclipses their mediocrity instead of acting like them.

>> No.1673921

>>1673913
>f you're going to waste your time with the intellectually inferior to laugh at them you can do it with some style
Like I need to wipe my ass with style every time I take a shit

>> No.1673935

>>1673921
that's pretty funny.

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1674452

How can you know that that anon wasn't capable of understanding your expanded point?

What evidence is there that he is a dismissible piece of shit? And if you regard all anon as dismissible pieces of shit then why do you even come here?

>> No.1674457

>>1674452
i dont care

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>>1674452
for the tripfags.

>> No.1674491

>>1674452
asking that question is about as appropriate as asking a pro striker whether he'll make his next penalty shootout

>> No.1674495

intimidation

>> No.1674901

>>1674457
>>1674457

I don't care isn't a reason for coming here.

>> No.1674982
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1674982

cadence, timing, inflection...words don't always have to primarily convey meaning...they may need to serve as rhythm..and I don't just mean poetry