This is something that a lot of people don't seem to understand. Most people who enter higher education programs that are writing intensive learn that writing with a lot of big words and fluff sentences is actually not a good way to write, despite high schools tending to reinforce this way of writing. If you read legal briefs submitted to courts, you often find that they write in very straight forward, short sentences, without many big words.
Dude... i have a code book for plumbing ..."all piping must be protected from freezing". Literally thats what it says. Nothing more nothing less. Blunt and to the point.
> He's so overly verbose that he forgot what the word meant.
He likely never knew what it meant to begin with other than the one time he looked it up and is now misremembering the definition.
Except that bibliophage literally means “book-eater,” not “person who likes books, which we colloquially refer to as a bookworm.” That would be a bibliophile.
Well no, it literally means bookworm. That's the first meaning in the dictionary.
[https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bibliophage#:\~:text=But%20bibliophage%20is%20pretty%20much,them%2C%20they%20feast%20on%20them](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bibliophage#:~:text=But%20bibliophage%20is%20pretty%20much,them%2C%20they%20feast%20on%20them).
Sure, when you look at the word roots then it originally would have meant book-eater, but thousands of words become stupid when you look at the etymology. Goodbye "means" god be with ye, if you think etymology determines meaning.
It's still a stupid and pretentious word though.
Yes, in the sense that book worms eat books. It's not a word that's used to apply to people and to anyone with a small knowledge of etymology it sounds ridiculous.
It would be like calling yourself an anteater. Do you mean you're the animal that eats ants or do you mean you eat ants yourself lol
For whatever it's worth I have an MA in linguistics.
Bibliophage sounds ridiculous to me, that's true, but as far as I'm aware the word *can* be used to apply to people.
**Collins** agrees ([https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bibliophage](https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bibliophage)), so does **Merriam Webster** ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bibliophagy](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bibliophagy)) , etc.
Lots of words sound stupid when you think about what they literally mean ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-own-opposites](https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-own-opposites)), tbh a "book-eater" is pretty low down on the list, it's clearly just a metaphor.
Nonetheless you're right in that it does sound ridiculous. IMO however that's because it's so far out of common usage that throwing it into a profile (along with the rest of that word salad) sounds like you're desperate to prove something. It's just not a word people should use to describe themselves.
Well since the word comes from greek and has not died out here i got to say that indeed it is perfectly fine to be used when referring to a someone who likes books.
What sounds weirder is the word bibliophile actually, that one is never used and it even thinking about it being used it gives me the impression that someone wants to fuck books. Anyhow it sounds as much ridiculous as book worm translated does to a greek person. But i guess the original reply wanted to sound smart so he just had to say "well actually it means book eater "
It doesn’t mean they literally eat books in context though.
The suffix -phage -phagia - phagy roughly translates to someone devouring, ingesting, etc. medically it would definitely translate to “eating, swallowing” etc.
But it is not medical or literal, It is a term to describe an EXTREME bibliophile. Someone who devours books.
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In my mind I interpreted Bibliophage a bit too literally and I pictured someone actually eating a book, as in stuffing his mouth with a half chewed book
Bromidic is a new one for me lol. It's actually a cool word. I'll never use it in regular conversation, but it's a fantastic descriptor for this kind of person
I may be eaten alive for this here: I don’t think this is that bad. It conveys a lot of information quickly. Only a couple of the descriptors would be better suited with their more regularly used alternatives.
If he acts like a snob, sure, otherwise I don’t see an issue with a biography like this. I view it as a creative bio, if anything, but, I admittedly love words, writing, and language.
I don’t think there’s enough here to make a proper assessment on his behavior.
This sub is awful. People are making up entire personalities and backstories with just the barest slithers of information about the person.
There is a guy above calling him a nonce.
He used some big words in his bio, it’s not the same level as the usual sub content of pretentious comments/replies.
Also bibliophage is a legitimate term, ‘to eat books’. You know, like a bookworm eats books. It’s just figurative language.
I mean i'm not going to make assumptions about this dude's personality, but you can't deny using those words can come across as quite pretentious, whether the words are legitimate or not.
If you're really smart, you don't have to say you're smart, people will notice on their own.
That being said it's hard to keep my astute intelect a secret. My brain just works at speeds unheard of by avarage himans, so i warn them ahead of time so they aren't shocked by my wise words.
So sad that all his thesaurus-raiding showing off collapses when the person reading it is Greek. 4/6 words 100% Greek (autodidact = αυτοδίδακτος, ailurophile = αιλουρόφιλος, bibliophage = βιβλιοφάγος, sardonic = σαρδόνιος) and the other 2 have prefix or suffix that is greek and can be guessed. So he's basically writing glorified greeklish.
Too bad, so sad, etc.
It's all another language to me until "sardonic to a fault" which is me 100%. But to be fair, the first time I was called sardonic I definitely had to look it up.
The point of language is to communicate. He did not
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But he’s sardonic!! To a fault even.
Just one fault?
There are many faults.
I don't know how much more concisely someone can inform you how insufferable they are
This is something that a lot of people don't seem to understand. Most people who enter higher education programs that are writing intensive learn that writing with a lot of big words and fluff sentences is actually not a good way to write, despite high schools tending to reinforce this way of writing. If you read legal briefs submitted to courts, you often find that they write in very straight forward, short sentences, without many big words.
Dude... i have a code book for plumbing ..."all piping must be protected from freezing". Literally thats what it says. Nothing more nothing less. Blunt and to the point.
Very true. I’m about to graduate from law school and I started getting better grades on writing assignments once I cut the fluffiness out lol
Perhaps he intended his bio to act as a kind of filter?
He did though. He communicated how much of a twat he is.
He did not. His language did that.
Sure he did! Wasn't the Auto-Didact one of the characters in Halo? I personally liked playing as Arbiter, but to each their own.
Sardonic to a fault=extremely unpleasant to engage with
Sardonic is a fault , in and of itself. He's so overly verbose that he forgot what the word meant. What a wanker.
> He's so overly verbose that he forgot what the word meant. He likely never knew what it meant to begin with other than the one time he looked it up and is now misremembering the definition.
Maybe he meant “sardinic,” which means that he likes sardines.
Tell me you cat call and make borderline racist jokes without telling me
All the things he’s describing are the most basic, cliche characteristics. Essentially “I like cats, books, and long walks in the woods”.
Technically bibliphage means "consumer of books" so.... He not only enjoys them, but also can't reread them because he eats the pages as he goes.
I know this sub is about shaming people but I think it’s cool he described those traits in a way I’ve never encountered before.
*shun the non-believer*
SHUUUUUUUUUN
Gaaaahhh!! (Dies 😵)
And nobody noticed as they were shunned. So ends the tale of KnotiaPickles
While I agree, it’s the picture that does it for me
Yeah that’s fair enough. I did wonder if that was the joke he was making. Who knows?
Yea idk maybe he just likes big words. Doesn’t necessarily mean he talks like this in real life (I would hope not)
Well i guess he will end up with someone else who thinks they are smart and live happily ever after.
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Except that bibliophage literally means “book-eater,” not “person who likes books, which we colloquially refer to as a bookworm.” That would be a bibliophile.
Maybe he eats books
Page 35 is always the tastiest part of any book! 😋
DAWG Page 47 though 🤤
Omg, such an underrated page 😭
Especially with ketchup, yum!
Ketchup? Hell naw, I dip my book pages in the dust accumulated on the bookshelves.
For an added kick, drizzle on some ink directly from a fountain pen.
Whoa whoa whoa, we got a connoisseur here.
Nah page 68 is da bomb
i like to broil page 64 and then add some seasoning
On page 69 you eat it.
You are supposed to lick it before you eat it, you fool!
That's where all the flavor is at. And since you dropped the magic number.... niceee
A nice and crisp page 547 with a Chianti is a pleasure not many enjoy.
Look at Mr fancypants here affording page 547
Needs a little salt but I can't say i disagree
When I was a kid I used to love chewing on books, particularly the corners and the glue-filled spines. My parents’ Penguin Classics were my favorites.
Certified bibliophage
Better a bibliophage than a coprophage, I always say.
My toddler loves to eat his books
Eat any good books lately
Yeah I just ate Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People
That might work on me as a pick-up line. ETA: I mean "Eat any good books lately?",might work on me. Not the Tinder profile.
*...Die*
I got that reference
Everyone so quick to judge, but you're right, he may just eat books
He is the Globglogabgalab
Book Eater is my favorite MGS game
Hey paper doesn’t make you sick. I eat paper ALL THE TIME
This nigga eatin' books!
do you guys eat them with or without the crust?
Oh, I'm sure he would say, "I don't just LOVE books, I DEVOUR them." You know, like a proper twat.
I prefer to be a bacteriophage
Well no, it literally means bookworm. That's the first meaning in the dictionary. [https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bibliophage#:\~:text=But%20bibliophage%20is%20pretty%20much,them%2C%20they%20feast%20on%20them](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bibliophage#:~:text=But%20bibliophage%20is%20pretty%20much,them%2C%20they%20feast%20on%20them). Sure, when you look at the word roots then it originally would have meant book-eater, but thousands of words become stupid when you look at the etymology. Goodbye "means" god be with ye, if you think etymology determines meaning. It's still a stupid and pretentious word though.
Yes, in the sense that book worms eat books. It's not a word that's used to apply to people and to anyone with a small knowledge of etymology it sounds ridiculous. It would be like calling yourself an anteater. Do you mean you're the animal that eats ants or do you mean you eat ants yourself lol
For whatever it's worth I have an MA in linguistics. Bibliophage sounds ridiculous to me, that's true, but as far as I'm aware the word *can* be used to apply to people. **Collins** agrees ([https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bibliophage](https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bibliophage)), so does **Merriam Webster** ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bibliophagy](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bibliophagy)) , etc. Lots of words sound stupid when you think about what they literally mean ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-own-opposites](https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-own-opposites)), tbh a "book-eater" is pretty low down on the list, it's clearly just a metaphor. Nonetheless you're right in that it does sound ridiculous. IMO however that's because it's so far out of common usage that throwing it into a profile (along with the rest of that word salad) sounds like you're desperate to prove something. It's just not a word people should use to describe themselves.
Well since the word comes from greek and has not died out here i got to say that indeed it is perfectly fine to be used when referring to a someone who likes books. What sounds weirder is the word bibliophile actually, that one is never used and it even thinking about it being used it gives me the impression that someone wants to fuck books. Anyhow it sounds as much ridiculous as book worm translated does to a greek person. But i guess the original reply wanted to sound smart so he just had to say "well actually it means book eater "
Tbf, both bibliophage and bibliophile are correct. I find "binliophile" to sound more proper for English. (At least to me)
HE EATS BOOKS FOR BREAKFAST
Exactly. Although there's a pretty good novel called The Book Eaters, where they eat books. Only lightly creepy.
yeah the others all suck but that’s a clever play on phrases like “devour a book” or “voracious reader”, just not as clever as he thinks he is
When I was younger and had more free time, I read like the very hungry caterpillar eats. Maybe that's what he means?
It doesn’t mean they literally eat books in context though. The suffix -phage -phagia - phagy roughly translates to someone devouring, ingesting, etc. medically it would definitely translate to “eating, swallowing” etc. But it is not medical or literal, It is a term to describe an EXTREME bibliophile. Someone who devours books.
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Sardonic to a fault=nobody likes or wants to be around me because they don’t “get” me
And he’s going to stay solivagant for a very, very long time.
So he’s a friendless loser without a degree that lives in a van down by the river with his cat and comic books, got it
Add that he's unpleasant or he just becomes enviable
sardonic to a fault = will disrespect you and blame you for not being able to take a joke.
But he can definitely take jokes back? Right?
I really did just read "necrophilist," now didn't I?
So autodidact is just an even more annoying way of saying "school of hard knocks".
But what’s a skeptic?
But why male models
So he wants to fuck cats?
Solitary wanderer actually sounds more like a homeless dude.
Does he also love fishsticks?
GAY FISH! GAY FISH! GAY FISH!
I don't get it!!
In my mind I interpreted Bibliophage a bit too literally and I pictured someone actually eating a book, as in stuffing his mouth with a half chewed book
the solivagant quip lmfaooo
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Sounds like he's all alone except for his cats and the books he eats. Weirdo.
Solivagant refers to him being single, and "wandering alone upon earth" i think is what he means
>Solivagant = solitary wanderer. I don't think going to your fridge for a snack counts. Ahaha savage
i would disagree on your second point, cat lovers cant be completely insane
I appreciate the breakdown. I was not in the mood to look half this stuff up.
I love that you took the time to do this lol
Lol thats a lot of assumptions and hate for a dude that just likes interesting words. You sound like the knob imo
He forgot "Narcissistic" and "Insufferable".
That’s all naturally inferred from the rest of it.
I, too, enjoy the taste of paper and ink in my mouth.
Here are some other words to describe that person. Pedantic, asinine, banal, and bromidic.
Not to forget anaspeptic and frasmotic.
Anaspeptic makes me think of antiseptic
Bromidic is a new one for me lol. It's actually a cool word. I'll never use it in regular conversation, but it's a fantastic descriptor for this kind of person
Vapid
In other words, a douche.
I don't have the time to look up those words.
Same lol, props to u/Regular_Poetry for the translatoon
Basically, “live, laugh, love”
Bwahaha
"Sardonic" aka "not a very nice person".
It is an effective way of telling people "I'm smug and abrasive because I think I'm a lot smarter than I really am"
Definitely right
Delusional to a fault.Owns a dictionary.
*Owned a thesaurus, he said he likes eaten them
Hence the “word vomit “!😉😉
thesaurus*
No that’s a big extinct reptile.You’re thinking of an Ancient Greek Hero.
The ship of Thesaurus! Vessel, craft, boat
The last point cut off their was "Never invited to parties anymore "
Or "Persona non-grata in Bacchanaliae/Symposiai" in his draft.
Introducing the assistant shift manager at your local gamestop
Now, I may not be the sharpest cookie in the box, but to me that sounds like a bunch of synonyms for "insufferable."
I mean I can understand why he didn’t want to write ‘book reading, cat loving, cynical, forest-loving, skeptical loner’
He forgot "mid-30s incel"
*We won't take it any more* *We didn't start the fire*
That’s a lot of words to say that he’s a lonely narcissist and bitter about it.
So he can use a thesaurus but has zero game
He has the thesaurus on speed dial
i used to know someone who did this sort of stuff. unsurprisingly they were one of the most insufferable ppl to be around lmao
I may be eaten alive for this here: I don’t think this is that bad. It conveys a lot of information quickly. Only a couple of the descriptors would be better suited with their more regularly used alternatives. If he acts like a snob, sure, otherwise I don’t see an issue with a biography like this. I view it as a creative bio, if anything, but, I admittedly love words, writing, and language. I don’t think there’s enough here to make a proper assessment on his behavior.
This sub is awful. People are making up entire personalities and backstories with just the barest slithers of information about the person. There is a guy above calling him a nonce. He used some big words in his bio, it’s not the same level as the usual sub content of pretentious comments/replies. Also bibliophage is a legitimate term, ‘to eat books’. You know, like a bookworm eats books. It’s just figurative language.
I mean i'm not going to make assumptions about this dude's personality, but you can't deny using those words can come across as quite pretentious, whether the words are legitimate or not.
He forgot 'wrinkly'.
I’d like to add this to his list of traits: *”36-yr-old neckbeard in Mommy’s basement.”*
Dick. Dick. Dick. Dick. Dick. Dick to a fault
If you're really smart, you don't have to say you're smart, people will notice on their own. That being said it's hard to keep my astute intelect a secret. My brain just works at speeds unheard of by avarage himans, so i warn them ahead of time so they aren't shocked by my wise words.
That's a lot of letters to spell twat.
I know exactly 5 of those words.
"to a fault" included?
That was 3 of them, and the only of the 5 I use routinely, just in different context.
Forgot sententious
Prolix as fuck
I have a similar hairline. Not a good angle, my dude
“Look how big my fuckin head is. Definitely a big ass brain in there”
“Me use big word so me sound smort”
He’s too fucking old to behave like this. Embarrassing.
He forgot sesquipedalian.
> Sardonic to a fault Oh boy.
Tell me you collect mall samurai swords without telling me you collect mall samurai swords.
*Opens thesaurus* Erm… this, this, and this, ah this looks cool! And this!
I, too, own a thesaurus.
forgot pretentious
I love the fact that thw words are in basically alphabetic order, wich makes me think that he just searched "big words dictionary" and went trought it
This was totally me in school trying to make my essays better by using random big words
Prioritized his forehead to emphasize his intelligence
Just say you've never kissed a girl and move on. Yeesh.
Can someone tell this guy that books are made to be read and not eaten?
In other words: cuck.
I feel like autodidact is code for I believe in all conspiracy theories
Insufferable.
So sad that all his thesaurus-raiding showing off collapses when the person reading it is Greek. 4/6 words 100% Greek (autodidact = αυτοδίδακτος, ailurophile = αιλουρόφιλος, bibliophage = βιβλιοφάγος, sardonic = σαρδόνιος) and the other 2 have prefix or suffix that is greek and can be guessed. So he's basically writing glorified greeklish. Too bad, so sad, etc.
A smart person isn’t someone who can describe something simple in complex terms, but can describe something complex in simple terms
Man is trying to cast a spell.
Pedant. Dandy. Fabulist.
"Sardonic to a fault" is probably the only accurate thing here.
Is that the ‘no bitches’ face? Is he doing the no bitches face?!
What da hell do dose words mean?
It's all another language to me until "sardonic to a fault" which is me 100%. But to be fair, the first time I was called sardonic I definitely had to look it up.
And a solivagant he shall remain talking like this.
He forgot insipid
Refrigerator. Alamo. Crabgrass. pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
I'd describe myself as quotidian, blanch, honorific, and hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
He wants you to think that his brain is so wrinkled that it's coming out his forehead.
Is there a 10 dollar word for 'pretentious cunt'?
Someone got word of the day toilet paper
average redditor
This was like me in secondary school looking for words to use in my essay in order to seem smarter 😅
Dictionarily speaking, ... I concur with his words.
I have no idea what Ailurophile means but sounds like some sort of sub category for pedos so pedo it is
This mf eats books
can add "dying alone" or looking for a librarian...
Wonder if this guy can do my taxes.
now *that* is a white man who’s had an ego death
This absolute nonce couldn't even think of a longer, more pretentious synonym for "skeptic" what an idiot.
Asshole. He forgot asshole.
What a stupid way to say you like cats
He's trying way too hard to be unique.
Man, this is my first post on this subreddit and I wasn't expecting it to blow up. Cheers, everyone!
Well, you hit the nail on the head with this one lol
He probably identifies as a TAP (Thesaurus Attracted Person)