Never thought about this before but this thread is really interesting if you’ve been bookish your whole life and annoy your friends with obscure words https://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1222618366109798400 …
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I’m not sure I buy this whole “I read so much since an early age that no one was able to understand me” thing. Maybe I just spend more time around people who also read but I’m not seeing this person using obscure ass words that would be a problem for people to understand.
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Replying to @shade_nyc @eigenrobot and
Maybe I just don’t understand the need to be understood by the broadest range of people possible. I have no special message to communicate to the masses. The people I most want to talk with have erudition in the same ballpark as mine, or preferably more so I can learn from them.
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Replying to @shade_nyc @eigenrobot and
i had two babysitters who used to have me define words chosen from a dictionary for their gfs as a party trick (i liked it)
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a frenemy in high school was mad at me about this he would look up obscure words and use them in sentences to try to get the better of me it never worked but he won in the end when he made up some words and got me to define them
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At some point I got to where it’s pretty rare that I encounter an English word that I can’t tell what it means by looking at it, unless it is technical jargon of some kind. Then I found this author who regularly uses legitimately obscure ass words. Trying to remember the name...
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perhaps Tom Wolfe he was a monster loved dropping "sternocleidomastoids" into prose which delighted me after having just taken an anatomy course perhaps John Fowles
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yeah wolfe's a good one - rust on my fowles ooh - pynchon
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