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r00tuuu123
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Re: Why big words and those that use them suck: a superfluous, self-indulgent, incoherent diatribe [Re: morrowasted]
#19396875 - 01/10/14 12:45 AM (10 years, 21 days ago) |
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morrowasted said: do u like it when words become letters? i do. it makes a lot of sense from a phonological standpoint, and that's the last time this post will make any discernible amount of coherent sense. u no wat i hate tho? needlessly big words like "phonological", "discernible", and "coherent". who does that shit? fuckin hipsters. a big word is like a song title that's 10 words words long or a band name with symbols in it. nobody is gonna remember that shit, jackass, just speak like the rest of us self-respecting, honest, people and stop acting like u got something to prove.
do u like cars? if not well too bad, so sad, seƱor fuck-o the first, cuz coming rapidly (that means rly fast) your way is an extra-juicy car metaphor that I hope will succeed in showing you why those big, mean, ugly words that people who don't mind being known as true-grit heavyweight 'intellectuals' shot-put at one another as if they were ego-powered, shot-put-shaped-ninja-stars, (in a brutal[ly boring] competition of legendar[il]y [pitiful] proportions that can only end, of course, when one intellectual uses a word for which the other intellectual can't recite Webster's definition without the use of an iPhone*) are sometimes actually kind of just a wee bit interesting if you like, think about it and shit, or, if not that, then, you know, at the very least, they actually turn out to be ever-so-slightly (aka quite) useful when used the really really specific kinds of conversations that they were created to be used in.**
YOUR extra-juicy metaphor, which, for your convenience, I have allowed to be ruthlessly brutalized by Google's "English->Dumbese" translation software, here and now to be served up fresh and ONLY FOR YOU, THE READER, on an unquestionably appetizing list-shaped silver (or blue, whatever, fuck off) platter:
big, fancy & relatively new words- like, for example, the word "neologism"- much like big, fancy, new cars, very often come with "fully-loaded" with super awesome features such as but not necessarily limited to:
- a relative shitload of interior space (at least compared to old, outdated clusters of small words like "new" and "word"). Very often this space even comes fully lock, stocked, and loaded with a bunch of shit you actually can actually use. Rearrangement of your brand-new useable shit is often much easier to accomplish than it was with your old car! There will always be enough interior room left over so you can put a little more shit in there if you need to, but you might need to move some parts, which brings us to.....
- parts that move in a way that is actually useful because it results in shorter sentences whose meaning is less likely to get lost in the massive and often downright ugly clustering of the old word phrases that would be required to achieve the same effect. for example, the terminologically-dense sentence, "Recursively generated outputs are defined by their subsequent neologistically-determined categorical differentiation." would have to be written in "old/small/dumb words" as something like, "the words my program creates are divided into overlapping categories in a way that you can think of as working like a venn diagram, according to the order of their letters, the ancestral word precedents that inspired their creation, and what they mean, in a sort of process that 'loops back' on itself every time it finishes in a unique way that is the same in the sense that the computer program code but different in the sense that the information being processed through it has changed since the last time it ran, by using the information that was gathered during the just-finished word-sorting process in order to create a completely new word which shares none of the variations of any of the three kinds of properties of a word I made reference to earlier in this sentence in common with any of the words that the program has already created," (breathe), if you wanted to express the same exact idea to someone who has no familiarity with the potentially applicable terminology.
- sex appeal!!! drop a big word at the right moment and dumb skanks will not infrequently make the false assumption you are some type of scientist or doctor or computer nerd (or whatever cuz let's be honest she doesnt really give a shit what you do for a living, her interest has been piqued by the fact that she has just located a potential opportunity to do you for a living).
BUT WAIT. THERE'S MORE! KIND OF. NOT REALLY. ACTUALLY I DUNNO IF IT COUNTS AS MORE OR NOT. I WILL NOW TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO EXTOL WHAT I CONSIDER TO BE THE GREATEST VIRTUE OF THE MASTERPIECE WHICH HAS JUST BLESSED YOUR LIFE WITH ITS PRESENCE.
Certainly by now you have already realized that you have just encountered a masterpiece of metaphor- you know the type. Metaphorical crafting of this caliber has been known to shock poets into their first genuine existential crisis, in response to which they are not infrequently found driving in cars and wearing shoes that cover the entire foot. Alas, my friends: the fuckedness of your mind is about to increase by many orders of magnitude.
You have, in fact, and without realizing it (since you are undoubtedly a neophyte of neologism at best and, quite honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if some of you were to lose in the previously described intellectual battle-royale against Hodor himself) just read and perhaps even managed, thanks to my gracious willingness to translate it into Dumbese, to partially understand a metaphor which exemplifies respectable usage of a new word using a word which itself means "newly created words, often created for use in specific contexts."

Ur damn right u gatdamned hooligans.

ACUALY THEIR IS MOAR! just a bit tho
moral of the story: dictionaries are heavy and thus make highly effective (and more importantly ironic but i don't think god himself could explain the meaning that intellectual douchebags intend when they use the word irony) weapons for heaving at great velocities (that means rly fast) in the general direction of anyone you see who appears to get his jollies doing anything that involves books or schools unless it also involves fire.
*(The winner of the intellectual battle-royale celebrates his win- alone, to be sure- by basking in the sublime & radiant glory of his intellectual..ness, having temporarily squashed his insecurities into the shadows with the unquestionably empowering self-assurance which has of course resulted from his superior demonstration of that oh-so-vital skill where you use the most obscure word possible inside of a context that is specifically counter-productive to using that word. this skill so incredibly vital that humans, of course, long ago crafted a word for it... oh wait. my point is obv. that all intellectuals are ego-driven douchebags who are continually in need of gentle reminders of that fact in the form of a severe ass-beating).
**You may have overheard this type of conversation taking place between small groups of overweight neckbeards whose complexion would demand SPF60 in the unlikely event that their skin were ever to come into contact with sunlight.
 MISTER T SAYS: I pity the fool who whittles his life away reading a hundred posts that say shit like "LOL" and replying to this thread with TL;DR
Somebody got a Roget's for Chritmass. sorry but I cant afford all the 50 cent words, so I'll just buy ya a beer. Now STFU AND RTFM Now Settle down there sparky!
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Re: Why big words and those that use them suck: a superfluous, self-indulgent, incoherent diatribe [Re: r00tuuu123]
#19397562 - 01/10/14 06:57 AM (10 years, 21 days ago) |
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more like i got a free bag of meth a couple days ago lol
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Re: Why big words and those that use them suck: a superfluous, self-indulgent, incoherent diatribe [Re: morrowasted]
#19397597 - 01/10/14 07:07 AM (10 years, 21 days ago) |
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i remember at my high school graduation the validvictorian (sp??) was this kid who didnt have many friends and was kinda weird. well he got to do a speech in front of all of us and our families and he tried so fuckin hard to sound smart. like he used way too many big words and he did it so much taht nobody understood what he was trying to say, even the adults
a lot of people kinda started laughing and were looking around like "wtf is he saying?"...if anything he deserved to be laughed at for desperately trying so hard to sound smarter and better than pretty much everyone at the graduation
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Re: Why big words and those that use them suck: a superfluous, self-indulgent, incoherent diatribe [Re: morrowasted]
#19398070 - 01/10/14 09:39 AM (10 years, 20 days ago) |
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Goddamn, that zodiac post was nordering incomprehensible even with a dictionary. I gave up after the second paragraph
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morrowasted
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Re: Why big words and those that use them suck: a superfluous, self-indulgent, incoherent diatribe [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
#19400054 - 01/10/14 04:34 PM (10 years, 20 days ago) |
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Bodhi of Ankou said: Goddamn, that zodiac post was nordering incomprehensible even with a dictionary. I gave up after the second paragraph 
The ideas in it actually make a lot of sense they're just very poorly organized and require a lot of background in linguistics
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