Long words
 

Ever had an argument on this site?? Have you ever noticed that when people get all defensive and panic cos they feel they are losing the argument they resort to using long, unnecessary words to make them self sound clever thus correct??

I've noticed it a few times.

It is inexorably funny.....

It's even funnier when they can't spell the aforementioned word.

Paste the word inexerably into google. It is correct.

...or write "them self" instead of "themselves"...

can't say i've noticed it myself :p

maybe i am the exception that proves the ontological rule.

:)

i would favour the conventional spelling:

inexorably.

i think the context of use is incorrect in any case. :)

Prime example. SN is not an English lesson is it. You knew what I meant.

Anyway, I've noticed it....and it is funny. Someone else must have?

I put that and google had a go at me, said I was fick!!

It said "do you mean inexerably". I accepted my error and accepted google as right.

As Brendan said. Unless you're American you would spell it this way:

inexorably.

See my first post edited......

pneumonoultramicroscopicilicovolcanoconiosis, ffs. :mad:



:D

Irrelevant. It's still out of context.

I've seen similar.

"You're wrong senior, I think you'll find that pneumonoultramicroscopicilicovolcanoconiosis is the term to which you inexOrably refer".

Cracks me up.

Must be something to do with the declining standards in this country.

What, those inexorably declining standards? Blair's fault, I'd say, though perhaps we need a poll of 30 people to prove it.

Which? The spelling or using long words?

I find it supercalafragalisticexpialadocious when people enter a discussion just so they can disagree and then try to put over some qualification they've got to back themselves up.

BTW all you're spellings are incorrect, I should know because I came 2nd in a Weetabix spelling competetion when I was 7. ;)

PMSL

Or 70.

92% agree. Maybe they are all wrong and you are right??

aii noticed it a few times, certain people use words that the average person would probably have to look up to understand where they was coming from. probably to make themselves look better :rolleyes:

Another common grammatical mistake....

"I should of done it"

NO NO NO!

It is :

"I should have done it"

Common error comes from people writing it as they think it sounds....must be a term for that, but don't know what it is.

My god, the antidisestablishmentarianism are out in there droves today.

I never knowingly use a long word when a short one is commensurate. :)

Cheers. I had noticed it but it seems more and more common recently.

Silly old me. I didn't realise that 70 people was a statistically significant sample, given a registered user goup of approximately 40,000. But then I'm just an old duffer who doesn't understand this sort of stuff.

I'll be off to find some long words then .......

Shame - if it wasn't for the Olympics, I'm sure Call My Muff is usually on BBC2 about now.

I'd say 92% of 72 people on a poll gives a fair indication of what a general feeling is.

Good luck with finding the words.

That was the fault of that talking bloke on the Amiga 500 software called "Workbench" !!!


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:D

How do you fit this into a scoobynet thread


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This word has appeared in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts and is thus considered by some to be the longest real word.

Thank god for spelling and grammer cheque tools or I'd make loads of mistakes.:)