@peepeed420 :grinning_face: idk just try it, who knows it can help you to acquire a natural and native sounding accent
Is it COOL or UNCOOL to have a large vocab?
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@Indrid-Cold It's cool enough if you know how to use it, correctly and respectfully. It's not cool if you just use it to bamboozle and filibust 😉
I think wankshafts like BJ have a misplaced sense of being better than other folk purely because they can spout shit, yet how many times has an intelligent interview caught him out?
There have been times when I have accused of deliberately belittling people, by supposedly using big words I know they won't understand. I found it quite hurtful at the time. I didn't choose to be aware of the words I know. I never swap a word out unnecessarily, and if there is a specific word available which is more accurate then that's the word I will use. I feel kind-of obligated to the language to use whatever is most fitting, and if that happens to be a more obscure word then that's just how it is. Perhaps because I am autistic I view that as better than being less accurate. I certainly don't think I'm better or cooler than anybody else when I do it. If anything it sometimes makes me uncomfortable, I can get anxious about whether people think I'm trying to be smug. I feel people like BJ are smug.
So long as someone isn't patronising with it, it's okay right? We have a rich language and want to embrace it, surely? I do hope so. I worry about the dumbing down of society (I'm not suggesting that narrow vocabulary is a sign of lower intelligence, it definitely isn't, but I feel there is a disposition where there is lower intelligence to have a disinterest in furthering vocabulary. Hope that makes sense).
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@Indrid-Cold Very, very cool. I find it attractive, and that isn’t necessarily in a sexual way. I feel drawn to people who are interesting, intelligent and have a bold, vast personality, and I feel like vocabulary enhances one’s personality a lot; they become less dull. However, there are extremes. If you don’t know what the other person is saying at all then it’s not so cool. 😂
Plus, I feel like a lot of vocab is only good if the rest of your personality is good. As in, if you’re a nerd who doesn’t do anything other than reading and use long words, it’s a put off. However, if you’re really cool and funny, and have good traits but also good vocab, it’s just better.
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You've got to the nub of the matter, MA. Richness of language is everything. It's like, if you were drawing a comic, and you weren't inclined to draw interesting backgrounds behind the fisticuffs superheroes.
As to Bozjozz, I'm just worried. Now I know how the Yanqui's feel with Trump. For entertainment purposes, he's a bargain, but he's still gonna cause a ruckus.
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@Issyogurlll I know, right? The balancing act between my wonky personality and my willingness to use alt. words is a constant headmuck, like I've got to find just the right level of nuance, nuance, nuance or I'll get RUMBLED and put in the stockades by people I was hoping to impress.
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I love Dancing with words, so Id say it's cool although I'm p lame so Idk whether my opinion is valid xD
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@Deimat I'm the sole arbiter of what's valid, and I say your opinion in very valid ind(ri)eed.
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It's entirely uncool. We should reduce our vocabulary to a set of 300 words, to avoid confusion for people who don't know the rest :triumph:
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@petrapark3r This could be a good thing. If there were fewer words with which to justify and internalize our frustrations, we might just have to let our emotions run riot, like cavemen. Captain Caveman had a very small vocab and those three floozies The Teen Angels luv'd it.
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Okay @Indrid-Cold got all the information they could ingest. A good collection of responses. I am adding nothing that has not already been said.
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@Sabo-go-thud Yes, but yr response still counts as a piece of performance art, and performance art is KOOL.
