Floccinaucinihilipilification

[Mike Gorman]

Posted by petra (here)
I just have to chime in here.. something is happening.

One of the things in my head thinks these are called "big stupid idiot words". I think I agree with him. We don't like big stupid idiot words.. we like to talk in small words because it's less stupid.

Yeah I tend to agree, words are only as valuable as their usefulness, this is language after all, the only means we have to make ourselves understood - these massive constructions obscure rather than illuminate meaning - however the folks are just having fun with them Petra, it is not serious (tell the entity it is like a parlor game)

[Ewan]

I've suspected for some time that folk who use multi-syllabic words in convoluted sentences do so to sound/appear intelligent, whilst in reality they actually have nothing interesting to offer.

Offered to ChatGPT to rewrite.....

I have long harboured the suspicion that individuals who habitually employ unnecessarily polysyllabic lexicons and syntactically convoluted constructions do so primarily to cultivate an ostensible impression of intellectual sophistication, when, in actuality, their verbosity merely serves to obfuscate an otherwise conspicuous paucity of substantive thought or anything remotely intellectually stimulating to contribute."

[petra]

Posted by Mike Gorman (here)

Posted by petra (here)
I just have to chime in here.. something is happening.

One of the things in my head thinks these are called "big stupid idiot words". I think I agree with him. We don't like big stupid idiot words.. we like to talk in small words because it's less stupid.

Yeah I tend to agree, words are only as valuable as their usefulness, this is language after all, the only means we have to make ourselves understood - these massive constructions obscure rather than illuminate meaning - however the folks are just having fun with them Petra, it is not serious (tell the entity it is like a parlor game)

Thanks! They don't really think of us as stupid idiots and know it's supposed to be in fun.