how often do you alienate people with your vocabulary? i don't

>>9267981
>asked a friend about his preferences and he didn't know what "preferences" are.
Americans are weird

I'm pretty sure preschool playgrounds aren't a very lit friendly environment

>>9268012
neither of us is american. to be fair, she's a new age moron. that might explain it.

>>9268015
you might be surprised.

>>9267981
Preferences in what?

>>9267981

when i was in a high school i had to tutor the dumbest kid i've ever met. regularly had to define words like indifferent, consult, moreover. the best was when he mispronounced unique as "uh-knee-kuh"

such an ego-trip, not gonna lie.

>>9268447
she's pregnant and i asked if she has any preferences for the baby's gender...

>>9268479
how can people survive like that?

>>9268492
she thought i asked if she has a hunch about the gender

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>>9268492
>this person is breeding

>>9268511
it's her fourth. she's a good girl. but not the brightest. but she's probably happier than most.

>>9268479
My own sister is patronising when she had never heard of "condiments" and "ambivalent". She also makes the ketchup bottle do the most disgusting spluttering sound, sometimes i wish i was Niles Crane

>>9268558
who's that?

my sister sometimes tells me to cut it out if i'm using normal words. i even try to avoid words that might not be in everyone's vocab when she's around but it's obviously not enough.

>>9268012
>>asked a friend about his preferences and he didn't know what "preferences" are
Holy shit this is autism
TO PREFER ---> PREFERENCE

And then they say "start with the greeks"

But please...

I memorized the dictionary and i sub consciously use a lot of the obscure words I picked up while speaking. Makes me feel superior if at all honest

>>9268582
my boyfriend's sister does this all the time if someone says something barely outside the everyday bracket of necessities. i remember we were walking to our car at the parking lot, he said "this new place is so good, we don't have to circumnavigate the whole city to find a parking spot" using the term circumnavigate in slightly ironic fashion. she had a wild embarrassing anger sprout yelling at him to stop trying to do the philosopher about a parked car. she has an insipid sentence with the world culture with the capital C as her whatsapp status update lol

>>9267981
They should add Euskera as the sun

I try not to be ostentatious. It's ostensibly one of the worst characteristics and usually full of vacuity. I find that exiguous words suit colloquial conversation best.

I said flippant twice in the course of a conversation and the second time they asked me: "heh, word of the day?"

>>9269744
So did Dave. But he really want people to know he thought that.