Has anyone ever used a BIG WORD that you DIDN'T know what it meant???

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mrduckbear
08/16/2017
02:16 AM
#1
Has anyone ever used a big word that you had no idea what it meant?


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as in has anyone ever used a word to you that you had no idea what it meant? let's see if people have.

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SmokeMassTree
08/16/2017
02:16 AM
#2
Plenty of people are using the word nazi lately with no idea what it means
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Syntheticon
08/16/2017
02:19 AM
#3
mrduckbear posted...
as in has anyone ever used a word to you that you had no idea what it meant? let's see if people have.

Once or maybe twice but I'd be surprised if anyone hasn't, you can't possibly know every word or you're not having enough interesting discussions with educated people lol
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Kyuubi4269
08/16/2017
02:21 AM
#4
Not any time recently.
RIP_Supa posted...
I've seen some stuff
Syntheticon
08/16/2017
02:21 AM
#5
SmokeMassTree posted...
Plenty of people are using the word nazi lately with no idea what it means

Good point lol Not to mention socialism in general, fascism, communism/marxism etc.
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J_Dawg983
08/16/2017
02:23 AM
#6
All the damn time in my math courses. There's been quite a few times I've had to look up the shit they're talking about.
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Yellow
08/16/2017
02:26 AM
#7
SmokeMassTree posted...
Plenty of people are using the word nazi lately with no idea what it means

Do you need like a dictionary glued to your face or would that even work

Nazis existed before and after WWII.

Says who? Literally every single definition of the word Nazi.
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dainkinkaide
08/16/2017
02:30 AM
#8
SmokeMassTree posted...
Plenty of people are using the word nazi lately with no idea what it means

Well, first of all, usage evolves with time; that's how language works. Secondly, "nazi" is not, under any accepted usage of the phrase, a "big word": neither a word of immense size, nor one that would cause one to be accused of magniloquence.
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Alexandra_Trent
08/16/2017
02:35 AM
#9
Not really.
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Kyuubi4269
08/16/2017
02:36 AM
#10
dainkinkaide posted...
Well, first of all, usage evolves with time; that's how language works.

The name of a historical group doesn't change over time.
RIP_Supa posted...
I've seen some stuff
Golden Road
08/16/2017
02:37 AM
#11
SmokeMassTree posted...
Plenty of people are using the word nazi lately with no idea what it means

Well, yeah, but it's not our fault you won't listen when we try to teach you =P

To answer the original question, no. I came out of the womb perfectly understanding everything my mom and the doctor were saying.

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dainkinkaide
08/16/2017
02:46 AM
#12
Kyuubi4269 posted...
dainkinkaide posted...
Well, first of all, usage evolves with time; that's how language works.

The name of a historical group doesn't change over time.

No, you're right, the name didn't change. But the meaning did by semantic broadening, which is a thing that happens in language all the time.

Funny how I don't see you and your ilk arguing that people are using "thug" wrong when they're not referring to a member of a historical band of assassins who worshiped the Goddess Kali.
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Greenfox111
08/16/2017
03:01 AM
#13
what a bad topic, of course i've always known what every word means
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Kyuubi4269
08/16/2017
03:11 AM
#14
dainkinkaide posted...
Funny how I don't see you and your ilk arguing that people are using "thug" wrong when they're not referring to a member of a historical band of assassins who worshiped the Goddess Kali.

Thuggish became an adjective which made thug the noun of thuggish, Nazi didn't become a noun of nazish since that adjective never happened. There's also the fact Nazis are within living memory, historical Thugs are not.
RIP_Supa posted...
I've seen some stuff
dainkinkaide
08/16/2017
03:16 AM
#15
Kyuubi4269 posted...
Thuggish became an adjective which made thug the noun of thuggish, Nazi didn't become a noun of nazish since that adjective never happened.

"Thug", as a term meaning "ruffian, cutthroat, violent lowbrow" first appears in 1839. "Thuggish" didn't enter the English lexicon until 1870.

Ergo, "thug" gained its meaning of "ruffian, cutthroat, violent lowbrow" by semantic broadening via an association with the views and behavior of the historical "Thugs" (which itself was a pejorative for the phanseegur that came from the Marathi pejorative " thag ", meaning "cheat, swindler"), which is almost exactly like how "nazi" gained its meaning of "racist, anti-semite, or fascist" by semantic broadening via an association with the views and behavior of the historical "Nazis" (which itself was a pejorative for the NSDAP that came from the German pejorative " Nazi ", meaning "foolish person".)

Don't make etymological arguments when you're ignorant of etymology.
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FrndNhbrHdCEman
08/16/2017
03:23 AM
#16
Naw. Despite mah diction round hurr gotta big vocab.
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08/16/2017
03:43 AM
#17
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wwinterj25
08/16/2017
04:14 AM
#18
I use big words at times but find it difficult to explain what they mean even though I know what they mean.
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Cacciato
08/16/2017
08:15 AM
#19
dainkinkaide posted...
Kyuubi4269 posted...
Thuggish became an adjective which made thug the noun of thuggish, Nazi didn't become a noun of nazish since that adjective never happened.

"Thug", as a term meaning "ruffian, cutthroat, violent lowbrow" first appears in 1839. "Thuggish" didn't enter the English lexicon until 1870.

Ergo, "thug" gained its meaning of "ruffian, cutthroat, violent lowbrow" by semantic broadening via an association with the views and behavior of the historical "Thugs" (which itself was a pejorative for the phanseegur that came from the Marathi pejorative " thag ", meaning "cheat, swindler"), which is almost exactly like how "nazi" gained its meaning of "racist, anti-semite, or fascist" by semantic broadening via an association with the views and behavior of the historical "Nazis" (which itself was a pejorative for the NSDAP that came from the German pejorative " Nazi ", meaning "foolish person".)

Don't make etymological arguments when you're ignorant of etymology.

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BobToxsick
08/16/2017
10:07 AM
#20
To sound smart I sometimes fornicate words into my sentences, even if I don't know what they mean
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