When someone speaks in an overly intellectual manner, you can't help but feel that they naturally wouldn't speak that way, and are only speaking that way to come off as smart and impressive. Really they just come off as pompous, amirite?

I didn't use it as a show. I never looked it up in a dictionary and really did think it meant something along the lines of like all high and mighty or someone who wanted to impressive, or something like that from the context I've heard it used in.

I do that too when it's the only word that fits what I'm trying to say.

This isn't about you, this is about Sheldon Cooper. Get over yourself. And if you had "verbal-linguistic intelligence" you would know not to say someone who is reading your responses and writing back is illiterate. And if you had any logic, you'd know that 1 ad homien insults get you know where and take away your credibility, and 2 that when someone says you possess a negative quality, the quality they commented on isn't a reflection of their own qualities. But you are so right. I am SO uncomfortable and threatened by smart strangers on the internet.

How long did it take you to google all them big words? No one talks like that unless they're trying to prove something. Like you, right now, trying to prove you've got a level of literacy that most internet users are threatened by so they try to knock you down a peg to somehow make themselves less of an idiot. Maybe you are better than the rest of us, but hey, the rest of us have got friends because most of don't run around calling people idiots that are threatened by our superior intelligence for not having huge vocabularies and using them on purpose to appear holier than thou.