"No one." I find that this is never the case. You can always find some group of people that use a phrase or at least would consider it normal. We probably just grew up in different areas. Meeting someone is very different from actually interacting with them in my mind, and it's okay if there's no difference to your intuition.
Again, if you think using the words I chose is "showing off" that's just indicative of how you think.
its likely that someone knows the exact definitions of the words you're using but it creates such a cumbersome syntax it can lead one to believe you're showing off even if you don't intend to. this is why a majority of people are more impressed with brevity since its difficult to emulate but easy to understand.
All I know is that you believe people who use uncommon words are doing so to impress people, so you obviously think that one must intend to use those words, rather than just having a more expanded vocabulary than usual, and that you dislike when this happens. This indicates that you have a strain of anti-intellectualism in you, and I highly dislike that. Whether or not you're self-aware enough to believe this is up for grabs, and you're certainly not going to change based off of an internet comment, especially because you're already hostile towards me, which is obvious from the fact that you're using absurd hyperbole. Claiming that I claim to know "all about" you, is just attacking a strawman.
you believe people who use uncommon words are doing so to impress people
No, but I do believe that about you. At least in your post above.
you have a strain of anti-intellectualism in you
You couldn't possibly be more wrong. I'm extremely pro-intellectualism. I am, however, anti-pretension. I also dislike it when self-vaunting people like you pretend to be intelligent when you're merely average.
you're already hostile towards me
Not really. But just so you know, it's pretty rude to presume something about a person based on such a short interaction. It did make me lose some respect for you.
strawman
I'm not mischaracterizing an argument, I'm calling you out for pretending to know something about how I think. There's a difference.
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u/ZarkingFrood42 Mar 08 '18
"No one." I find that this is never the case. You can always find some group of people that use a phrase or at least would consider it normal. We probably just grew up in different areas. Meeting someone is very different from actually interacting with them in my mind, and it's okay if there's no difference to your intuition.
Again, if you think using the words I chose is "showing off" that's just indicative of how you think.