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What's a word you've spent a long time not using right? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just recently I was in a conversation with a number of UK mainlanders and we had a debate over what "tories" meant, apparently disproportionately ordinarily it refers to a political party and it's not usual to use it as short for "territories" as I've used it (according to how the debate ended, it was half and half between them). And once again I'm reminded of how people feel to look back at their usage of a word/phrase over the years and cringe.

More tragically, me and a friend were embarrassed once upon realizing everyone was confusing "encephalitis" with "hydrocephalus" when talking to someone about their kid with hydrocephalus. Awkward because encephalitis is caused by HIV.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (5 children)

You have "a massively large vocabulary" and couldn't think of anything other than "massively large"? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was raised by dyslexic wolves in a dixie cup full of turds and was basically educated by punches, so naturally my encyclopedic repertoire of words is aptly humbled by the plentiful platitude of my somewhat planar pronunciation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

ah. youve read the mormon bible.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Come on, that's still super better than all the super unimaginative kids who super use super as a superlative every super single sentence

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I only use latives because of that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I take your point, but please consider: People who like to show off their checks thesaurus prodigious vocabularies are generally insufferable to be around.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I'll clap for prodigious and the insult!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

My vocabulary is big huge!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Doesn't mean he needs to put on airs.