+208 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?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You can tell when someone is using big words as a show. It doesn't come as naturally and eloquently as it would with someone who regularly speaks using an extensive vocabulary.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

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.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I didn't mean you. I was referring to the same people your post was. I don't consider pompous to be a big word at all. To be to honest, though, its usage in your post did feel a little awkward.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm kind of weird like this. I randomly throw a big word into my everyday vocabulary because at the moment it's the only one I can think of to accurately describe what I'm trying to say. It's really random though because everything else I'm saying will sound really stupid and all of a sudden "authoritarianism" right in your ass. Unless I'm really mad and debating someone. Then I go into douchebag smart guy mode. I feel bad because afterward I realize I just completely belittled someone and crushed what they were trying to say. (not so much on this site as on facebook. the average user on here is actually intelligent) It's why I try not to get into too many debates on facebook anymore.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

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

by Anonymous 13 years ago

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by Anonymous 13 years ago