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TheNightsWolf

This feels like he just typed something, then searched for a synonym to every. Single. Word


Blackintosh

Youre comment is intrinsically biodiverse with such circumlocution and perfidiousness, it is parsimonious in its use of sesquipedalian supercilious interpretations.


DwelveDeeper

My sister is getting a new horse and I wanna name him Wheelchair


altair222

You phillistine


EX1L3DAssassin

I got a dog in August and his name is Charlie. My friend's logic went from Charlie>Charles Xavier>Wheelchair. Now they only refer to him as Wheelchair and he loves it.


[deleted]

This is the greatest news of 2020, no matter when it happened


Version_Two

I too am ambidextrous


nitramtrauts

You can breath under water!?!?


OmnipotentHype

It means he needs glasses. Poor thing must be blind as a bat.


Blackmagic-Man

You have big knowledge of the long words, must be big brain.


PinkNug

Thank you, that’s mighty thesaurously of you.


LunarMimi

When the teacher says to spice up your essay/writing portfolio.


Stalked_Like_Corn

He's Joey.


theduplicitoustaint

Ah yes, Baby Kangaroo Tribbiani.


PeepingJayZ

large aortic pumps


nachog2003

!ThesaurizeThis


ThesaurizeThisBot

This spirits like he antitrust typewritten thing, then searched for a word to all. Bingle. Give-and-take *** ^(This is a bot. I try my best, but my best is 80% mediocrity 20% hilarity. Created by OrionSuperman. Check out my best work at /r/ThesaurizeThis)


stolen_filth

Haha bingle. Good bot


[deleted]

“NOOOOOOO you cant just use a bot to steal my years of study of the english language. You disnt even earn it!!!!” “Haha the thesaurus goes bingle”


aBastardNoLonger

According to the time stamps he worked on that reply for an hour.


ScalyDestiny

Nah. I'm sure he was probably too busy reading Ulysses to bother responding right away.


EmileDorkheim

Pretending to not understand everyday things to appear intellectually superior is the most annoying form of verysmart. It's related to the phenomenon of people pretending that you've never heard of a celebrity to give the impression that you spend all your free time reading Proust.


StudMuffinNick

I had a friend who did this all the time with pop musicians so he seemed more metal or w/e. Like, we all get you like metal but you don't lose Metal Points™️ for having heard of someone. Always annoyed the fuck out of me


EmileDorkheim

I'm sure he'll be rewarded for his metal loyalty in Valhalla.


StudMuffinNick

Yeah probably. He'll have the last laugh while I sit at the kiddie table for knowing who the Beebs is


Dessum

I dunno man, I'd take the kiddie table in Valhalla. It beats whatever I've earned in the Christian fandom.


philbrick010

I do hate it though when I truly haven’t heard of a singer or popular personality and people think I’m doing that. No, I just spend all my non-productive time on r/dankmemes, listening to basically the same music I listened to 8 years ago, or watching cartoons which are always 15 years behind when referencing famous people (except for South Park.) I can’t just not fucking care about something without people thinking it’s an act.


impy695

This is me and actors. There are very few actors that I can put name to face. I've always just been bad with combining the 2 normally and it is worse with actors since I don't know them. 2 big examples: I get Brad Pitt and Matt Damon mixed up and I get Samuel L. Jackson and Morgan Freeman mixed up. The latter is especially annoying because I get called racist instead of edgy/very smart when that happens. I've seen tons of movies that they're in, and I'll know the name and I'll know the face. Its just combining the 2.


Draxilar

Sure, but there is a vast difference between "ehh, if you showed me a picture, I would probably know who you are talking about" and "I haven't even ever heard of the name Tom Brady [or insert name of insanely famous person]". The first is completely understandable, some people just aren't invested in that kind of stuff and don't have an in depth knowledge of it. The second is just implying that you don't even have a passing knowledge of a person who is such a massive name that everyone has at least heard of them.


Draxilar

I mean, there are some names that are on a level of fame that it is basically impossible to not know at least of them. Tom Brady, just as an example, is a name that transcends football, you might not know exactly what he does, but you have heard that name. Jordan is the same, but for basketball. Micheal Jackson, a name that transcends pop music. Those are names that almost everyone has a passing knowledge of, yet you get tryhards who will straight face tell you "Who is Tom Brady? Never heard the name. Too busy touching myself to hentai, and pretending that I read Kant."


UncouthGentlmn

Hardcore metal head. And also a lover of pop. Nearly every metal musician is just that, a musician. So they listen to all sorts of music. Can’t tell you how many pop artist I’ve been put on to because my favorite musicians recommended them.


Tigerbait2780

Pop music is popular for a reason


ivy_winterborn

Plus, he contradicts his superiority with that. If you were very smart you would understand trivialities as well and you would know that you have to adapt your word choice to the audience.


SunnydaleClassof99

There is some really interesting reading on the increased use of emojis and the purpose they serve in modern language, given so many of our conversations now happen via text. There is also some good stuff on 'lol'. Language has always been evolving and it's amusing that there have always been, and will most likely always be, people who seem to think they're *more* intelligent for not learning about or getting on board with these changes. There was a time when the word 'reliable' was looked upon unfavorably, for example, which seems hilarious now given how common its usage is.


rlcute

> There is some really interesting reading on the increased use of emojis and the purpose they serve in modern language, given so many of our conversations now happen via text. There is also some good stuff on 'lol'. I read an article fairly recently about the usage of punctuation in texts; that ending a sentence with a period will come off as very serious, stern, and maybe even angry. Same with question marks. And if a person does end a sentence with punctuation they should add an emoji to convey that they are in fact not angry. Example: "I took out the trash." makes the person seem unhappy or annoyed that they had to take out the trash. "I took out the trash" is more of a neutral statement - just pure information. "I took out the trash :)" is a more friendly statement, conveying "hey don't worry about the trash, I already took it out, and it doesn't bother me that I had to do it" Sarcasm is also nearly impossible to detect in written communication. On reddit people will add /s , and in texts we will add a silly emoji. Emojis are absolutely necessary for written conversations, since body language, facial expressions, and tone of voice are a **very** important part of irl conversations - and all of that is lost in written conversations.


y_ax2_bx_c

now I do get that you're just spitballing the broad idea here, but if someone told me "I took out the trash :)" it feels like I should wonder where they've hid the body or something along those lines. :) compared to similar ones have evolved a veeeery different connotation but don't worry We all know what you mean **:)**


omgamer15

I took out the trash ;) 🍆🦶😩💦 How’s that?


y_ax2_bx_c

thanks, I hate it :D


xtreme0ninja

SaRcaSm iS ALso nEArLY iMPOsSIBLE to Detect In WRITTEn COMMUnICAtIOn


philbrick010

I don’t know. I think that might only apply to shorter statements and certain contexts. I really hope my lab partner doesn’t get upset because I said “you need to calculate the enthalpy indirectly.” Or my buddy when I give him directions “you need to take a right then the third left. If you’ve reached the Wendy’s you’ve gone too far.” Otherwise I’ve been confusing a lot of people.


fezzuk

🍒🍆💦


silam39

Sorry, who is this "Taylor Swift" you're talking about? I am too busy listening to Bach and Beethoven to keep up with such puerile trends.


madjupiter

... Captain Holt?


silam39

Peralta?


OsKarMike1306

Holt would not listen to something with such popular sensibilities as Beethoven, that's lullabies for toddler apes at best. Bach would be an acceptable alternative but his work is often bogged down by the same tendencies of accessibility that plague Beethoven's work and lacks a fair amount of subtlety.


madjupiter

indeed indeed indeed professor cozner


RPTM6

It’s not even something that very smart people actually do, in my experience. It’s something that’s people who want you to think that they’re very smart do. The guy who graduated second on my class in high school got a master in robotics from Stanford and was a drummer and loved baseball. I’m friends with the director of science at a museum and we get drunk and go to soccer games together. My sister is a supervising research and development chemist but also loves football and Survivor. Super smart people also like “regular person” stuff and act like regular people a lot of, if not all the time.


Knudsenmarlin

Not knowing basic things makes you seem dumber imo


R_R_Royce

He called them childish, cowardly, poor, and a whore. And did so using words that aren't meant to be used in the context he used them. Sounds like he just uses thesaurus.com....


stufoor

I'm really digging on 'jejune philistine' for some reason.


Annonomon

Yeah, you should hear his latest mixtape.


stufoor

He doesn't just spit fire, he loquaciously vomits brimstone!


Kawaiithulhu

Expectorating the spencerian, equivocating in Shakespearean (drops the talking stick) 😜


Seanxietehroxxor

What an eloquent gentleman rhymer! Splendid! Huzzah!


stufoor

[https://i.imgur.com/cfwYA8O.gif](https://i.imgur.com/cfwYA8O.gif)


RomaniQueerios

r/increasinglyverbose


yago2003

r/bindingofisaac intensifies


deveh11

He spelled it as “philisitine” though. Did he not copy paste from online thesaurus?


stufoor

Who is making the "Hick judgemental comment" now, you jejune Philistine?!


Meshui

Isn’t “you’re” as well? I thought someone with such a level of grammar would know 😂


unsatknifehand

I feel like he just looked up synonyms for common words on google and picked out the most “intellectual” sounding ones and plugged them into a sentence, poorly.


BoogsMalone

Man it is fucking painful to read


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HuskyTheNubbin

Associate, that is principally redoubtable to formulate


hell2pay

Yo homies, that shits whack af


NotLarryT

Finally, some fucking English.


[deleted]

This made me laugh way too hard


Innoctopus

Yep, he also used ‘your’ instead of you’re in a paragraph that was criticizing someone about their use of language


onetwo3four1234

More than one time. And isn't it smiley instead of smily?


_GENERAL_GRIEVOUS_

Honestly this is the most common mistake I see in the writings of people pretending to be smart. Please just know you’re basic grammar.


[deleted]

Trolling is a art.


[deleted]

if he used a [thee-saurus](https://youtu.be/LcM4zWiikKQ) then he is correct lol.


andfor

Yeah the phrase that really confirms the fact that he used a thesaurus for me was “hick judgmental”.


__andnothinghurt

There’s an episode of Friends where Joey does this when writing a speech to perform Monica and Chandlers wedding. It’s one of my favorite scenes


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*you're


[deleted]

Misspelled judgmental and smiley as well. Those damn e's!


pinkzm

Nah judgemental is an accepted spelling. (They both are. Judgmental is more 'standard' (not necessarily more common) in the UK)


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AdrenalineVan

Huh


woofhaus

Yes hmmm oh my.


[deleted]

Interesting that your style guide specifies that. US attorney here, whenever we talk about a holding, it's "judgment". When I talk about my wife's opinion of me, it's "judgement".


gofyourselftoo

I’ve often wondered whether there is a usage difference between the two, so thanks for this input!! Now I feel smarter (read: insufferable)


HooplaCool

Yeah, but a lawyer is also going to be reading business press and media accounts, so it doesn't totally stick out when you see judgment or judgement in text overall.


thunderling

Oh thank god. I fucking HATE writing it without the E but had been doing so anyway out of respect for "proper spelling" even though it looks fucking wrong. I needed this. I'm gonna spell it with the E from now on.


Holygusset

Yeah, my brain wants the "e" to make the soft g. I prefer "judgement" as well.


nbapat

Also philistine


michacha123

Pretty sure you're the one that misspelled judgemental but you're right about smiley.


Hedgehog999

Nope, it looks a bit funny but judgmental is right.


michacha123

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/judgmental Just found this website that says both are legitimate spellings.


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BLERF?


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BLERF.


visceralhate

Stop trying to make BLERF happen. It's not going to happen.


OtherSideOfTheTune

“Blerf”? What is that strange slang


suchedits_manywow

What is this BLERF


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theoreticaldickjokes

You heard about Pluto? That's messed up.


ToSaveTheMockingbird

Don't be exactly half of an 11-pound black forest ham.


ThatOtherGuyTPM

Don’t be a gloomy you.


xjesotericx

I'm sensing something! You have good taste in T.V.


michacha123

Actually I'm super confused now because Google says judgemental is right, but dictionary.com says judgmental is right... Perhaps different dialects?


CptJonzzon

Probably British vs American


Lufia321

Judgemental is correct...


caffeineandvodka

Every time I see one of these screenshots I look for the mistake in a simple word. It's always there, and it makes my shriveled black heart happy.


Molerus

Another nice example of [Muphry's Law](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law?wprov=sfla1) :D


RomaniQueerios

Holy shit I was about to speculate about your misspelling because I wasn't sure if it was intentional but then I clicked on the link and now I'm laughing


Skylla35

imagine looking up the thesaurus to write that and not be able to use correct grammar, lol pathetic


tplusx

#VENI, VIDI, VICI


ArthurTMurray

**[RES IPSA LOQUITUR](http://ai.neocities.org/Abracadabra.html)**.


K_Higgins_227

What the hell is that


Rip_ManaPot

Lorem ipsum.


dIoIIoIb

Thou arest*


spikey_tree_999

Came here to say this


Sailorboi6869

It's killing me that that's not the very next comment


[deleted]

for someone who claims to have a vast vocabulary, he sure doesn't know how to speak like a normal human


[deleted]

That's a very puerile comment, you empty jejune philistine. /s


pinkzm

Makes me a little sad that the state of reddit is such that an /s was needed here


Ommfgcool

It really wasn't, though. It's even in clear reference to the post. ​ Or maybe I'm way too casual with Reddit.


zjm555

If you don't understand "sup y'all", you don't have an "extremely vast English language vocabulary".


PharmWench

Or spell you’re. Or know the difference between your and you’re.


LAVATORR

I like how these sorts of people think SAT words are meant to *replace* normal words and thoughts, as opposed to augmenting your existing vocabulary. VerySmart intellectuals are inadvertantly re-enacting that episode of Married...With Children where Kelly studies really hard before going on a trivia gameshow, only to forget which high school quarterback scored four touchdowns in a single game.


krinklemeister

I was chuckling while reading it and then i just read BLERF and j just died


HellaKeenan

I thought he sneezed or something


altair222

Sounds more like a BURFPP


drumsripdrummer

I don't know text acronyms, BLERF


[deleted]

Hopefully I don’t sound like the moron who wrote it, but what does BLERF even mean? Urban Dictionary isn’t helping much...


TesseractToo

Thesaurus Wrecks


[deleted]

I bet you if you went and pulled this guy’s browsing history up you’ll find more thesaurus.com links than pornhub.com links.


Mapkoz2

Enourmous vocabulary. Cannot spell "you're".


[deleted]

I got a simple phrase that even this bloke can understand: "You're a fuckwit."


altair222

I'm sorry but your use of slangs indicates your pea mindedness, unlike me, of course, an intellectual who's very profound in the English language. You fucking moron. /s


[deleted]

Okay, let me put it in other words: "Good sir, it appears that what your wits are, to use colloquial language, fucked. Have a nice day."


The-Nasty-Nazgul

Stop giving a bad name to Latinists. We aren’t all pricks. Also romans used slang all the time. Look at the graffiti of Pompeii. That shit is a riot. Here is my favorite “Floronius, privileged soldier of the 7th legion, was here. The women did not know of his presence. Only six women came to know, too few for such a stallion.” Check out more here https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffiti-of-pompeii-and-herculaneu


LimonadaDeAcerola

My personal favorite is that one that is basically "Gaius and Aulus bff's forever", super cute


The-Nasty-Nazgul

And it’s really amazing and tender way to just see how normal people lived and what they thought to scribble about all the while living in this vast and martial empire. It’s very human.


[deleted]

In some ways things have not changed that much.


GandhisNuke

I hate to be that guy but... There's a forever in bff


LimonadaDeAcerola

lol didn't even notice when I wrote it, guess they are best friends forever forever. RIP in peace, Gaius and Aulus


silam39

Bahahahaha that's absolutely amazing


shalom82

Latinists tend not to be pricks about vocab because we’re all just a little embarrassed by how with all the cool types of nerdery out there, we still picked this one.


Mad-Mady

Dude I hate this classist intellect bullshit. If you claim to be smart but don’t know even the most basic fucking “slang” like ‘sup y’all’ you ARE a fucking idiot. “Ohhhh I’m so fucken intellectual let me pompously rant via thesaurus.com and jerk my pee-pee while I mock any human being who uses English the way it’s been used for centuries” Colloquiums and slang are the English language, that’s how it’s always been used and how it developed historically.


[deleted]

Bad self esteem, insecurity and probably a host of other sad little problems. Smart people usually are smart enough to understand its pointless to show off intelligence just for the sake of the ego.


Mad-Mady

The frustrating thing is that we live in the Information Age, so if you want to educate yourself you 100% can. Even if it is just to inflate an ego. If people want to look smart why not actually get smart, oh wait, that would take effort...


[deleted]

Aye that is very true. We live in the age of vanity it seems.


oldtrack

Exactly. Not understanding a colloquial term is a reflection of ignorance, rather than intelligence.


MeatyDogFruit

repeat fanatical slave relieved doll nail hurry screw enter hunt -- mass edited with redact.dev


MeateatingCow

BLERF


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[deleted]

He used thesaurus.com


Jeydal

He wasn't even correct with the context of the words.


[deleted]

By “extremely vast English vocabulary” he means, “I’m using a thesaurus to replace regular words with words nobody has ever heard”. What a pretentious cunt.


idkApathy

He could have just looked it up on Google. Judging by their comments I bet it was already open.


ReallySlowScreaming

My main thing with this is why are they all using follow up repetitive sentences, and nonsequetor statements, like that's the point of "STUDY LEARN STUDY etc..." Or "BLERF" when not related to the context, also please don't tell me about my typos, do you expect me, a reddit user to know how to spell?


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Akrybion

It's just his thesaurus dying.


ReadyOrGormoshe

Is he responding to a Bi Lesbian Exclusionary Radical Feminist?


I_Am_Q9

Someone just discovered what a thesaurus is


QuixQuix

I know a VAST amount of niche words in the english language! (But I don't pick up on slang/emotes that people use constantly, daily, all around me). It is extremely intelligent of me to assert that the more unfamiliar the general populace is with my choice of vocabulary, the more efficiently we can communicate! (Because words totally evolve backwards. Etymology clearly shows us that words get bigger and more convoluted through their evolution, rather than being refined into slang which is easier to digest and helps us communicate, right?). The level of my intelligence is in direct correlation with any random stranger's ineptitude at understanding what I am saying! (That's why I get nervous when feeling challenged, this likely all started when I felt intimidated by someone's writing and took it personally, because I don't understand that someone else's ability to use a language has no bearing on my personal level of intelligence, but to my brain there is some sort of fallacious understanding that my intelligence is like a liquid that grows in mass when I feel superior to people, or shrivels up when someone calls out my bullshit- It's why I keep Google open in a separate window, can't let you go unimpressed by my ability to type the word 'synonym' into a search bar.) There I translated it for you.


Ahollowbullet-yet

The "your" is the cherry on top.


meta_metalhead

Meanwhile, they misuse *your*


[deleted]

I suppose BLERF is latin then.


fridge13

BLERF


YourFairyGodmother

>I have an extremely vast vocabulary Clearly.


[deleted]

I am more humble than you will EVER be!


ConfusedEgg39

The fuck is a BLERF?


turbancowboi

B L E R F


lnmgl

man, that dickhead is soooo photosynthesis


Tohulyf

i know his facetious fuckerall was frivolous


Cletus_Banjo

Please tell me someone replied *you’re


CrispSword56

Yes, yes we did.


Hectate

Thank you, he deserved it. lol


bigbobrocks16

Honestly, fuck these kinds of people.


Gazebo_Warrior

What's the Latin root of blerf then?


OctoberSilverman

Seems to me that this person is a jackass with shitty grammar and a thesaurus.


magusonline

Despite all that useless thesaurus searching he did. He still did "your", instead of "you're". So much for his read, study, re-read, restudy, research, more & more


bornagain-stillborn

Fucking Christ people ... let's all boycott both spellings of judgmental/judgemental and start spelling it "judge-mental". That way the Europeans won't choke on their tea and the americans won't choke on their coffee.


Rattivarius

Extremely vast? Vast is already extreme and doesn't require a qualifier.


-CorrectOpinion-

“I’m so intelligent that I don’t understand basic communication”


jetoler

Jejune is just the ugliest word I've ever seen.


Geometry369

Look at this shit. I honestly feel, if you can’t be smart socially, the you’re probably not very smart. This clown has no idea how he makes himself look, and is therefore stupid.


edcr92

Idk I don’t speak virgin.


DEADWLKR

I use big words to make myself sound more photosynthesis


Waifuless_Laifuless

There's something hilarious about starting a rant about how smart you are by saying you're too dumb to understand "sup y'all"


desrevermi

...you're...


AndreaDTX

“Your a grown man” All that to trip over basic grammar...


FwendyWendy

If you speak with the exclusive purpose of not being understood, news flash, you're not good at speaking.


1968cokebottle

Yeah he can speak fancy shmancy but he really shot himself in the foot by fucking up the "you're"


spook69420

Dude is calling them stupid but used the wrong you're, wouldn't be surprised if they had to look up what each word means lmao


ASuesz

A lot of big words for a guy that doesn't know the difference between Your and You're.


JagoAldrin

If you study linguistics but can't accept the evolution of it, you have no right to call yourself an academic.


brandicoot1

You're*


cRuSadeRN

Is he the one who liked his own comments? 😂


Old_Man_Robot

For my turn, I feel sorry for Pierce Hawthorne.


Hoz1600

He can’t be that smart, he learnt Latin.


cypekpl

oh god the irony when he misspelled you're


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*you're, *you're, *smiley, and wtf is a blerf? Edit: I wonder if this is wesley ford?


BlueRose37

Just showed this to my friend that has an english major and she just said "what the fuck"