It occurred to me the other day that i tend to drop a few multi syllable words fairly frequently into sentences in order to make me seem slightly more academic. The problem is nine tenths of the time i have no idea what they mean, for instance:
-Juxtaposition (what the hell is that)
-unmitigated (opposite of mitigated?)
-Rudimentary (some school age?)
-Vernacular (seriously no idea!)
-Loquacious (??)
–Hippopotomonstrosesquippediliophobia ( I know what this means – fear of long words!)
I use all of these words at least daily. It just sounds good throwing them in a sentence from time to time. Sounds like i make sence!
PLEB!
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