When do words become simply unfashionable? How dated are words

>>9386430
Because humans do anything to not feel left out and alone. Including submitting to a blander language.

Is that Tolstoy?

>>9386580
It doesn't even look like Tolstoy, bud.

>>9386430
They're not unfashionable in the context of you using them as long as you use them because they are appropriate rather than primarily because they are rare, as a conscious anachronism.

>>9386645
Is it Spengler?

>>9386580
Yeah, he's actually been living in a cave in Moldova for over a century.

>>9386430
These words were used by a more beautiful, healthier, and greater world ; but such a world did not believe in equality; and its words are words of oppression ; and the old world was a world of oppression. So I say ; let this old world burn, and ride on with equality : down with all tyrants, both in mores and arts !


Yes, your words are inappropriate ; they represent the oppressions of the past.
Ours are the days of the average, mediocre man ; speak an ever more vulgar language ; live your freedom ; espouse your century ; enjoy sprite.

It's all yours ! SEIZE IT !!!