It annoys you when you're having a conversation with certain people, and they make fun of you for using "big words"; "Propo- whaat? Proportional? What the fuck does that mean?! You fucking loser...", amirite?

OMG, this happens to me EVERY day! like legit, every day!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

...Then we should totally hang out and be English nerds xD

by Anonymous 13 years ago

lol. yeah, ppl started to call me "the girl who uses big words" in 5th grade, nd some ppl still call me tht in highschool. lol

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Haha, I can't believe I actually used to resort to dumbing myself down for people...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

oh, i did to. i still have to, for those small-minded people. i honestly wonder how small some people's vocabulary is. i really do. lol

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There's nothing wrong with that... (dumbing yourself down that is) I know big words, but I only use them when I'm at work or writing a paper, not when I'm with my friends. Using big words unnecessarily, just makes you sound pretentious and no one likes pretentious people....

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Why does having a big vocabulary have to be "pretentious"? Why should that ever be a bad thing? It's like when people completely desert grammar 'because it's summer'. It doesn't matter what time of year it is, you sound stupid.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Why do you need to prove yourself smart to your friends? I'm pretty sure your friends who know you're on the Dean's list every semester won't think you're a dumbass, because u desided to spel liek dis

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's not proving yourself. I see no point in purposefully avoiding words in regular conversation. If that's the first word that comes to mind, I use it. Also, if my friends starting doing that, I WOULD think they were idiots.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That proves YOU are the idiot... if they get good grades in school, then they are obviously NOT idiots. If you are quick to let a hundred years of work fall in a day, then they aren't the ones you should be worried about my friend. Proper grammar doesn't mean you're smart. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard, there are people way smarter than me in my classes, that can't speak proper English... they might not get A's in English, but they get straight 100s in math classes. They're not American and neither am I, I bet you wouldn't know the simplest word of my language, if tested. I'm not going to hold that against you though.... Besides why make conversations awkward by using words almost no one's ever heard of, except you, because you read it in some book. Not everyone's read the same book and it's probably not a common word.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I never said proper grammar makes you smart, but you can bet a stupid person will say "I did good on that" instead of "I did well", they are somewhat linked. Yes, me not knowing a word of your language totally has something to do with this.... I don't use words almost no one's heard of, I use words that everyone SHOULD be familiar with but aren't because they are DUMB.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There's no point in continuing arguing with you, you're obviously too stupid to understand any other point of view other than your own.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Just because someone says "I did good on that" instead of "well" doesn't mean they're stupid. I get straight A's and say "good" out of habit.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Learn to read. I said 'I never said proper grammar makes you smart, BUT'...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Proportional is a big word?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

exactly.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

^ What she said...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Especially when you can't fathom how dumb they would have to be to think it's a big word.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I always get "ENGLISH PLEASE." or "Do you read the dictionary?"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And then I make fun of them for being DUMB.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The thing about that is though, they're NOT dumb... well you're friends might be, but not every person who doesn't know "big words" is dumb.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Touche. Usually, I won't pick on my friends like that. But if we're talking about the bums in my Spanish class who didn't know what "hypothetical" meant, I think it's justified.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Why are you speaking gibrish in Spanish class?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I fucking hate that. My friend had no idea what latter, indifferent, or xoxo meant. he then told me not to use those "big words" around him. idiot.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"xoxo"? I don't even think that's a word, let alone a big one.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I was told to stop saying "imply" because it's too confusing.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's even worse than when I was told not to say 'insinuate' because, "You can just use other words."

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My sister who is five years older than me didn't believe that impede was a word.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Apparently "outlier" is a big word,, which doesn't make sense because you can tell what it means by just looking at it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Sometimes if someone tells me to stop using "big words" I start spelling eeven longer ones. Like hippopotomonstrosesquippedialiophobia. My friends hate when I do that but it can be fun sometimes.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

OMG! i am going to use tht now! but how do u pronounce it? lol

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My favourite one to annoy people is 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis'. I've used it since I was, like, seven. (I had SO many friends...)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I learned that word like last year and haven't taken time to practice spelling it yet.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yes!! Except my dad thinks it's hilarious, and if he gets bored, especially around other people, he makes me spell it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My favorite is definitely 'floccinaucinihilipilification' and when they ask what it means, I say, 'negligible', then they as what that means, and then I restate 'Of little value; worthless' and they ask why I didn't say that in the first place.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

haha wow. I've never heard of that one though.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I get made fun of for saying "inconspicuous" sometimes...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

same thing w/ me.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I know this girl who doesn't know what "fate" or "society" means. Someone sent her questions using those words on formspring, and she was like "uhh what?" I wanted to kill myself.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Excuse me, I'm going to go crawl into a dark corner and cry about the impending downfall of average literacy rates.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i hate that especially when they ask you to repeat yourselves using smaller words but there really are no smaller words you can think of to use to get your point across.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

a girl on facebook didnt know what superficial meant

by Anonymous 13 years ago

They shouldn't be annoyed by it, they'll hopefully learn something from talking with you. I don't see why it's such a horrific thing in their eyes.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I never understood why people say "chill, we're not at school". So school is the only place where you have to seem like your grammar and vocabulary are more advanced than a 6-year-old's?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I once said the word literally, and someone laughed.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

They must have been a mega-moron becaus even dumb people use literally

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Last year, I said the word "considerate" and someone called me a nerd for using big words.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

they weren't being very considerate *badum tsh*

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Last year I said Beetlejuice three times and then I died. And then people called me a nerd and told me to stop reading the dictionary.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I got told to stop using big words when I used the word "imply". SMH

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I once said, PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS and people told me to stop using big words

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Apparently, "incest" is a big word.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It has less syllables than OMG. I would have thought even dumb teenage girls could wrap their heads around it...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

*witty joke about teenage girls wrapping their heads around it*

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I had someone stop me in the middle of a conversation and ask what an "introvert" was. *throws self out window*

by Anonymous 13 years ago