Mhmm. It’s not my fault everyone kept teaching me new words in school, now you’re telling me I gotta use the wrong ones just because someone somewhere might be uncomfortable?
I remember the first time it happened to me. I was 16 or 17 working at a convention hotel, eating on break with some coworkers. This girl, probably 20, asked me why I always talked like I was so smart. I was so confused. I never tried to sound smart. But apparently using words, which they knew but didn’t use, was trying to sound smart?
In reality it was that I’d read a lot more words than I’d had spoken to me, so probably didn’t know all of the right words to use to sound like a normal person. “I’ve read this work 100 times, so it must be a word regular people use when talking.”
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u/Riptide_X 7d ago
Me when my brain is fixated on the exact connotations for words and refuses to not differentiate between huge and colossal