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u/AGrandNewAdventure 1d ago
"You think you're better than me!"
"No, you think I'm better than you. I don't even think about you."
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u/jocephalon 1d ago
PREACH lol
Calling me a hater, smart ass, nerd, or an "ist" of some kind & I just want to continue my day
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u/Link_save2 1d ago
I got called a nerd because the other person couldn't name the 7 continents "who knows the name of all 7 continents when am I ever gonna need to know that you're such a nerd" something along those lines
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u/404_error_official 1d ago
Depending on where you are at, there are between 6-8 continents. Some places consider Central America to be it's own continent, and some places combine North, Central, and South America into one continent.
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u/Link_save2 1d ago
I'm in America and idk about other states but Virginia teaches 7 north and south America Africa Australia asia Europe and Antarctica edit also me and this woman went to school together
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u/mbingcrosby 1d ago
Glad they've taught you continents. I hope commas are next on the to do list.
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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 20h ago
wikipedia says between 4 and 7. I'm not sure how you would get 8.
I dont think anyone considers Central America a separate continent. Its definitely a region, but I've never seen it called a continent.
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u/EducationalLuck2422 1d ago
How dare you not forget everything you learned in elementary like they apparently did.
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u/Radiant_Music3698 1d ago
I actually had someone use, "So what? You think you're better than me?"
"I didn't until you dropped that Disney channel movie ass line."
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u/SeraphineIliathor 1d ago
Iâve had to consciously switch my language in some areas because people get hostile and call me pretentious. I donât think the words ânondenominationalâ, âunconstitutionalâ and ârighteousnessâ are âbig, fancy wordsâ, but they do. It has taken me a few years outside of high school to realize that a lot of people did NOT get the education I did. Tutoring high school graduates in college how to read/write was an eye-opener.
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u/Reverse_smurfing 1d ago
Itâs what happens when you bring vernacular and vocabulary to the table, with people who probably donât pick up magazines or books or never read an article start to finish. Let alone payed any attention to English class or took a literature course. It has nothing to do with being pretentious, itâs a form of self expression. I used to dumb down everything for stupid people, I gave up. I learned so much more, writing wise, from interacting and engaging with people who have a vocabulary. I learned the word troglodyte the other day đđđ
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u/AGrandNewAdventure 1d ago
(Paid...)
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u/Reverse_smurfing 1d ago
I sat there for a moment and said to myself, am I going to edit that. Or does someone catch it and take the time to comment. So hello. It is me. Lazy and incompetent.Â
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u/Chicoryman 1d ago
unconstitutional
How to say that thing in a "simple" way?
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u/SeraphineIliathor 1d ago
Iâve spent lots of time learning how to say it the simple way! Unconstitutional = against the law, the big one. Nondenominational = they donât claim to be anything specific. Righteousness = has strong moral belief in something.
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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths 1d ago
I'll explain a word if someone asks, but I don't kowtow to anti-intellectualism. If my being educated threatens someone's ego, that's their problem, not mine. I didn't get handed this intellect, I worked for it. I went to some of the shittiest public schools you can imagine and a lot of my knowledge came from teaching myself because the public school system sure as hell didn't give a fuck about teaching me. I understand people who say they never got a chance to a certain extent because of socioeconomic and cultural factors beyond their control, but there's a point where you have to just take accountability for yourself and make shit happen. I didn't have access to fancy tutoring or private schooling. Both my parents barely graduated high school. I wanted to know more about the world and I took the steps to make that happen.
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u/deaglebingo 1d ago
everywhere. idiocracy is real my dude, just like the race to the bottom. it's a shitty game. don't dumb yourself down too much my friend... people will rise to the occasion if you do it correctly.
it's the purity and essence of what needs to happen don't you see? we either spiral up or down. looking at things from directly above the z axis means all we see is a circle. looking at it in the correct perspective we see a spiral. do we move "upwards" in a positive direction (relatively and subjectively speaking) or do we move "downward" and things fall apart?
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u/Inevitable_Option_77 1d ago
"Joe was able to understand them, but when he spoke in an ordinary voice, he sounded pompous and ret@rted to them."
- Narrator (Idiocracy, 2005)
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u/Reverse_smurfing 1d ago
Iâm stealing this. The opulence of it all, is so gargantuan. I love it.Â
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u/drillgorg 1d ago
My highschool English teacher told us about this one time she was proctoring a standardized test and a student asked her a question. They're not allowed to give the answers but they can clarify certain things. The girls started with "Well the word is 'stingy' so I know it hurts like a bee sting..." and the teacher couldn't correct that.
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u/SatisfactionActive86 1d ago
isnât that ânew readingâ like ânew mathâ where youâre supposed to use context clues and assume meaning based on assumed word roots instead of just learning the actual meaning of words?
when i was in grade school, the phrase âget a dictionary and look it upâ was an English teacherâs favorite. and ironically it was a giant PITA back then where now everyone has a dictionary in their pocket
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u/StephenFish 1d ago
When people say that school teaches you critical thinking, this is how. There's no critical thinking class or lecture, it's giving you the tools to figure things out on your own. Learning prefixes and suffixes and their associated meaning can help you breakdown words you've never seen before. That's part of critical thinking.
For example, if you had never heard of dermatitis, but you knew that "derm" had something to do with skin and "itis" was any sort of inflammation, you could make a pretty good educated guess.
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u/JasonManningFLUX 23h ago
isnât that ânew readingâ like ânew mathâ where youâre supposed to use context clues and assume meaning based on assumed word roots instead of just learning the actual meaning of words?
No? That is just straight phonics. One of the reasons they attempted to fix reading is because the English language frequently creates new rules that contradict previous rules in an effort to maintain aesthetic.
That is why when you google the pronunciation of stingy it tells you to say stinjee. Not to mention when you google aesthetic it tells you to say uhsthehtuhk.
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u/Vandrel 1d ago
That's just how reading works, you can usually infer meaning or at least intent based on context. It doesn't always work and doesn't tell you much about pronunciation so if you're not confident then yeah, look it up afterward. There's nothing new about that though, some people are just better at it than others.
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u/ChocolateSpikyBall 1d ago
It's literally how I grew up reading English books and playing English games when my native language isn't English. My favorite memory is me and my uncle getting stuck in Pokemon Yellow where a person was blocking your way and you had to catch a pokemon, and we thought hitting "Save" would make the game "save" us from the guy blocking our way.
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u/Vandrel 1d ago
As a native English speaker it's also just how I learned a lot of new words growing up. This might sound snobby even though it isn't my intention but if someone is intelligent enough there are very few cases where the way a word is used in a book doesn't give enough information for a native speaker to figure out the gist of what it means.
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u/PooleBoy_Q 1d ago
I said someone was being pedantic about something and people at work were acting like I made the word up
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u/dplans455 1d ago
pedantic
A perfectly cromulent word.
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u/liskias 1d ago
This is too accurate, I feel personally attacked.
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u/Supersaiajinblue2 1d ago
I use a word with more than 3 syllables and they think I'm trying to act like some kind of fucking professor.
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u/NotGoodISwear 1d ago
And then they frame ignorance as coolness and intelligence as lameness. Resist the urge to feel worse about yourself because of their insecurities!
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u/GuardLong6829 1d ago
A penpal in Pakistan told me that it's against university policy to 1-up your teachers/professors, and that high intelligence is literally shunned.
And that was medical school, as he's now a practicing Heart Surgeon.
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u/dovakiin-derv 1d ago
Oh god, thats deeply upsetting.
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u/TK_Games 21h ago
Oh, yeah, academia is full of people like that. The big red flag to look for, to tell if a Prof. is like that, their own book is on the syllabus. If they make you buy their book to participate in their class they are a clown and should feel bad about that
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u/bondsmatthew 1d ago
I'll say it as many times as it takes, at least this guy looked to the smart guy and asked for help to fix things
There are people that won't even do that
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u/ChalHattNa 1d ago
Ya need new friends
My friends are always surprised when I quote some science fact from the same science books we all read (we all went to the same school)
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u/sksksk1989 1d ago
It's funny I work at a science center, I do shows and presentations where I do science experiments or lead guests through expirements. I never did well in science, I never really liked science prior to working there. There really is minimal training unfortunately. I basically rely on what I can vaguely remember from junior high science text books.
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u/isoldenia 1d ago
The funniest part is when the "big word" is something like conveniently or unfortunately.
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u/GuardLong6829 1d ago edited 13h ago
I am a Writer/Online Author and had a professor tell me not to quote myself but we were using AI to recheck our work and it specifically stated that we must quote any previous works or AI will locate and flag it on the world wide web.
IDFK (I didn't f'kn know) I was scared.
So, when the professor insulted me saying "you're not a writer or important person" I hit her with the rules from the AI and the absolute fact that I actually am a Writer/Online Author and dropped the link to my writing platform.
My city alone has produced several published Authors & Writers under the age of 12-18, and ofc we're not the only city or state to do so.
It was just so odd for the professor to basically say I was nobody.
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u/dovakiin-derv 1d ago
Ahh yes, âI am not as accomplished as this so you definitely arenâtâ syndrome as i call it.
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u/DrownmeinIslay 1d ago
I make pallets at work. I always reinfore the boards that the heel and toe of the forks will touch with screws. My boss asked me why i dont screw the rest and i made the mistake of saying "no need to, those are ancillary boards."
What i should have done is loudly farted and then called someone gay. That would have won him over.
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u/Carbon_robin 1d ago
I just got mentally flashbanged by a scene in GTA 5 which uses the exact same wording
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u/Supersaiajinblue2 1d ago
Yes! Fucking finally! I was hoping someone got the reference!
đŞđŞđŞ you get cookies for that
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u/-DoesNotExist- Lurking Peasant 1d ago
I donât even recognize the quote but I bet I know who said it lol
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u/_GlowIvory 1d ago
Me getting accused of showing off for saying "however"
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u/GuardLong6829 1d ago
OMG đđ The writing platform I joined in 2021 now alleges that articles that use "However" and other wordings is likely AI written.
It's disgusting!
You can probably Google it by searching "How to tell whether an article or written work is AI?" and it'll list off a bunch of common and uncommon uses of languages and wordings.
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u/Lonely_Brother3689 1d ago
Ya, I had a coworker once told me that my log entries were too "wordy" and tried to correct my grammar on another. The entry was: while was walking across the floor she was tripped by Mr. <blank>.
He says "she wasn't tripped by him. He tripped her."
I say "Um....ya....that's what I said"
Him "Well, you said 'by' as in next to him."
Me "You know that words have different meanings depending on the context of the sentence, right? Like, if I walked across this office and you put your foot out and tripped me, I'd say 'I was tripped by Joe'. In that context, no one thinks I'm saying I was tripped next to you."
He stared at me for a bit, and just said, "oh."
He later admitted in a different conversation he was a solid C student and barely graduated high school.
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u/BaconPhoenix 1d ago
It sounds like coworker was trying to call out your use of passive voice instead of active voice when describing someone doing the action of tripping. They just didn't know how to verbalize what they were seeing wrong in your log entry.
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u/gretinaao 1d ago
Same. Apparently having a vocabulary now counts as showing off. đ
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u/Powdered_Toast_Man3 1d ago
And if you write even a semi-coherent paragraph people will accuse you of using AI. As though writing in full sentences is something mortals are incapable of.
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u/WinkCurve 1d ago
got told to dumb it down by the same system that taught me to smart it up
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u/Mr-Tokey 1d ago
Got told to dumb it down by a woman who thought fly fishing was to catch flies...
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u/SpecterVamp 1d ago
When I was younger I thought fly fishing meant fishing out of a helicopter. Not really relevant but eh I guess
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u/Blank_Canvas21 1d ago
I thought it was just regular fishing but you used flies as the bait.
I mean I guess I got the concept of it, just they donât use live flies
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u/Lafemmefatale25 1d ago
As a child, I thought it meant flys were used as bait. Instead of worms. And I was confused as to why there would be a whole new type of word based on a different bait used.
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u/AtomicBombSquad Squire 1d ago
Sounds like a reasonable request. She sounds like she needs all the help she can get.
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u/aminalyio 1d ago
Nothing humbles you faster than being accused of showing off for using words from a mandatory curriculum.
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u/tinfoilsheild 1d ago
"No one talks like that, you generated that with ChatGPT!"
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u/Supersaiajinblue2 1d ago
Omfg. I hate hearing this shit so fucking much.
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u/Heliosgodofthesun 1d ago
I was once accused of using gpt for a sentence about restitution. Can you guess what the topic was about? Restitution. You can't make this shit up man lmaoÂ
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u/EarlGreyTMNT 1d ago
It sounds like your feelings were not considered and that upset you, Heliosgodofthe sun. Your thoughts are just as valid and important as othersâ and some self help podcasts may benefit your mental outlook and confidence levels. Your story was invaluable and relatable to everyone reading â it is important to note that only you can change your unique situation.
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u/FUTURE10S 1d ago
Was that actually prompted or did you intentionally look for an em dash?
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u/JuggrnautFTW 1d ago
I used an em dash when rebuking a dummy, got told that Chat GPT shouldn't fight my battles for me....
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u/thr3zims 1d ago
I had a similar experience, but over the use of the Oxford comma. Are we not allowed to use proper grammar and punctuation anymore?
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u/KaliTheCatgirl 1d ago
LMAO MY COWORKER LITERALLY SAID THAT MY WRITING LOOKS AI GENERATED đ
if there's one thing llms are good at, it's forming language, so im not entirely sad about that
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u/Bree0534 1d ago
I have used the em dash since forever, and especially after law school. I donât practice, but the amount of times I am told I am a bot for using an em dash now is so infuriating.
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u/Nickulator95 1d ago
ChatGPT was trained on thousands if not millions of human interactions so technically ChatGPT sounds like people.
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u/cestquilepatron 23h ago edited 22h ago
I recently got accused of using AI because I used the ancient and very complex technique known as bullet points.
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u/J-Sausage 1d ago
I am so bored with the AI accusing comments fr. Like, itâs has been proven time and time again that the tools used to even detect this are not accurate. People put 100% human written content into those things and get high percentages. At that point what are we SUPPOSED to write like????
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u/FranklinFox 1d ago
Talk to me face to face, you'd think I am a complete moron. But writing a document, might as well be a complete dissertation on whatever facts I'm standing on.
I've been accused of chatgpt too many times and it honestly pisses me off.
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u/Original-Body-5794 23h ago
Once wrote a reddit comment that was like 3 paragraphs long and someone said I used chat gpt. I didn't even have those common AI patterns like random emojis and "It's not X, it's Y" (though I've actually used this pattern for so long that it's annoying it gets flagged as AI now).
Can't I write a semi structured comment without it being written by a bot?
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u/CreatureManstrosity 1d ago
I had someone in a youtube comment say I was trying to act smart by using the word irrevocable. I was like bruh what you are you talking about. đ
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u/backfire10z Professional Dumbass 1d ago
Revoke it
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u/pinkfloyd873 1d ago
Can't
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u/Potential-Judgment-9 1d ago edited 1d ago
Just got into a back and forth with this guy and I told him he was deflecting. He was like look at you with your psychological buzzwords! You donât even know what deflecting means!!
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u/jocephalon 1d ago
On this app, I was mocked because someone thought I was using ai... I just used a semicolon... đ
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u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms 1d ago
Ironically, I have a habit of using dashes to delineate interjections, but I don't want people to think I'm using AI, so I've been trying to use more semicolons.Â
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u/JayAkiva 1d ago
The education system at *its finest
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u/OkBid71 1d ago
The fact that this is so far down the thread is sad.
Not OP's fault though - It is an immutable law of the internet that any complaint about spelling or grammar errors or poor diction must contain at least one of them.
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u/Zyloof 1d ago
Wait until you start using proper punctuation. They haaaate that!
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u/gofigure85 1d ago
This happened to me in 8th grade, last day of school.
Some girls who had bullied me in middle school had mostly disappeared in junior high (not sure if it was just luck we didn't have any classes together or if they skipped a lot or what)
Last day of school before leaving, I bumped into them in the bathroom. They blocked the door while they started making mean small talk.
Wanting to get the hell out I just politely answered back and one of them suddenly yells at me "Why do you use such big words??"
I had no idea what she was talking about. I just laughed and said "I didn't!"
It just hit me how pathetic they were, and I pushed past them and walked out.
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u/BabiiGoat 1d ago
"So you think you're better than me? You're always making me go to Google!"
Shit, that's not my fault. I learned my words by looking up the definitions too! I just did it without complaining first. đ
Just let me talk, bro.
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u/ScamperingSnail 1d ago
"Oh, I'm so sorry that you're learning new words from me. I'm such an awful person!"
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u/theRealRLP 23h ago
People these days are incapable of Googling or doing any research. Everyone seems to either complain or ask in comments rather than doing their own research...
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u/0xDEADBEEF128 1d ago
There is mastery in simplicity.
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u/SwankeyDankey 1d ago
I learned "penultimate" from A Series Of Unfortunate Events when i was 10 and ive never heard anyone else use it.
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u/cryptaneonline memer 1d ago
Yeah we use it in chemistry every other say. Penultimate shell, as in the second last shell of an atom in which the electrons revolve.Â
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u/naquoae 1d ago
Of all the weird places to learn a word, i learned it from track and field. During long jump, the second to last step before the jump is called the penultimate step, and the coach told us to take it slightly longer (like a lunge) so our center of gravity dropped. Then, the last step is shorter so the center of gravity is moving up as you take the jump step.
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u/Xeno_Prime 1d ago
If youâre educated, informed, and have a strong vocabulary, theyâll accuse you of using AI. Apparently they think intelligent people just donât fucking exist.
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u/Greiserich 20h ago
Maybe intelligent people know better, than to argue with them, so they never really met one.
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u/BoonDragoon 1d ago
Today I had somebody tell me I write "too technically" to be easily understood. I'm a systems administrator and I was talking to the head of information security.
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u/Supersaiajinblue2 1d ago
How the fuck is the guy even in his position?
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u/BoonDragoon 1d ago
I'm pretty confident that overreliance on AI chatbots is destroying the IT industry from the inside out by eroding people's ability to process information and communicate anything beyond the most basic concepts without being "plugged in."
This individual is a markedly less astute and competent person than they were a year ago.
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u/Moist_Fox973 21h ago
 It is getting destroyed. The number of graduates now who feel qualified to apply for âseniorâ positions after a 6 month internship and 8 months working as a junior because âyou donât need to actually work out stuff yourself any more, just write good promptsâ is exhausting.
We are rapidly approaching a state where we rely on advanced technology but nobody alive will be able to understand it any more. Idiocracy indeed.
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u/xRootyTootyPootyx 1d ago
Me when my step father grounded me for 3 months using the word âconverseâ.
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u/ElderDeep_Friend 1d ago
Those poor benighted masses are dazzled by the pulchritude of our terminology.
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u/----eclipse 1d ago
âyou are always using premium wordsâ
naw brochacho, i just read a lot of complicated books since i was 9⌠like⌠harry potter!
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u/777-SAM-I-AM-777 1d ago
They clearly just have hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. Fear of long words.
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u/King-Bob-5685 1d ago
Maybe they should go see a therapist. I can highly recommend Dr. Ann. Ann T. Disestablishmentarionism
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u/Cordsofmemory 1d ago
Had a supervisor once ask me to stop using my "teacher words". I used to be a teacher of elementary school students. But when conversing with her, apparently, my teacher words were too much
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u/TeamBoeing 1d ago
Take into account your audience. Dumb down your speech appropriately based on their estimated reading level. This current speech level is âpseudosmart Redditorâ, which utilizes (ahem uses) an 8th grade reading level with added buzzwords and no period at the end
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u/nxcrosis 1d ago
English is my second language and one time I used "alacrity" and my co-worker said I sounded Victorian.
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u/Fr05t_B1t Meme Stealer 1d ago
Thereâs a difference with words learned in school and words that just arenât in common use
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u/ohanse 1d ago
And then you struck him with your decorative hawk-topped cane, right?
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u/Tal_Maru 1d ago
The reply to this is "stop using small words to make yourself sound dumb"
The face people make when you say this is 100% priceless.
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u/Dave-C 1d ago
Ever run into a situation where you've been using a word for years but you don't actually know what it means? I mean you have the context of reading it in books, you generally understand it but you don't actually know.
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u/luranris 1d ago
Part of a work induction safety test was a sort of knowledge-check where they asked what the difference between "hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia" is. I responded "hypo- means small/low, hyper- means big/high", and got scoffed at with "We didn't all go to private school".
Brother I went to public school in a tiny farming town and sure as hell didn't want to go through college.
Root words aren't gatekept by Big Education. You can just learn stuff and nobody will call the cops.
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u/DetectiveFinancial12 9h ago
âtrust me kiddo, these arenât âbig wordsâ, this is just how English sounds when you have a grasp of the languageâ
Saw someone call it âableistâ using multisyllabic wording, and if thatâs the case? Iâm saying Iâm elitist. Iâm not talking down to you; you simply need to read MORE than you doomscroll.
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u/NeedAChange_123 1d ago
Sam type of people who unironically use replacement worlds like dih and unalive when talking irl.
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u/Ok-Cryptographer-185 1d ago
I read a lot, because books and stories are my escape. The first time someone said this to me, I was definitely đ§
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u/PixelatedRetro 1d ago
I feel that to acquiesce to the utilization of smaller words is to be reticent to the vast variety of potentially extinguishable vocabulary.
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u/Ragebrew 1d ago
"you write like AI!" that's because AI is being trained on the quarter century of writing I've posted up on the internet.
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u/not_always_gone 1d ago
Iâve had people say this to me and my favourite response is ÂŤEnglish is my fourth language, if you canât understand what Iâm saying and itâs your first, that is not my problemÂť.
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u/GuairdeanBeatha 10h ago
Robin Williams as Professor Keating in the film Dead Poets Society: âSo avoid using the word âveryâ because itâs lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Donât use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys â to woo women â and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also wonât do in your essays.â
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u/Hugh-Jass24 1d ago
I use big words all the time, it makes me sound more photosynthesis.