What words are almost never worth using? I'll start >Jejune

>>8311810
Seems like a great word iibh

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>>8311810
obstreperous, arrant (instead of utter)

>ghostword

>>8311858
Arrant is just archaic is all. People who use it now are trying too hard to sound flowery in their prose or speech.

A remember bein like 19 and reading the phrase "post-ontological yet fecund nihil" in a book by Stanley Rosen. 10 years later and working on a dissertation in philosophy and I still have no ducking clue what he is saying.

>>8311893
Actually never mind 10 seconds of thought and I got it. I think I've just associated the feeling wtf with it for too long

>>8311893
After the discussion of nature in spite of growing nothingness. Makes no sense on it's own, what came right before it?

jejune Jesuit
t. Buck Mulllgan

>>8311810
That is a thoroughly jejune position to take.

>>8312139
Thanks for illustrating how shit that word really is

>>8311901
ontological does not mean the study of nature...

>>8311901
Get off this board you fucking pseud; you're a cancer to it.

jejune frogposter

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>ataraxy

"a state of serene calmness"

I don't like it aesthetically bc the word feels like a nervous breakdown

>>8311810
Nick Cave used "jejune" in the song "we call upon the author to explain"

fitted the song perfectly

>>8311810
i like jejune...

>>8312327
thanks for illustrating how shitty op really is.

>>8312377
its a perfect word for the context of the pseuds who use it. they're always nearing a mental breakdown in using ancient words in trying to make themselves look good.