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Originally posted by beternU:
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Originally posted by Road Puppy:
In the interest of avoiding collateral damage-That post wasn't aimed at you, blue.
I just figure that if somebody has to use all kinds of archaic words to make their point-There must be a shortcoming somewhere that they are compensating for.
Kinda like Yuppies driving Hummers.
It wears on ya after awhile, dig?
My words were not "archaic"; they were simply not part of your vocabulary. There are words--many of them--outside my vocabulary also, but they are not "archaic" simply because I do not know or use them--yet.
Relish our great English language--the greatest language in the history of the word!
Beter...I know words that you'd hafta unhinge your head to get it around 'em.
Yes, they are 'archaic' because NOBODY, including stuffy Yale professors uses that kind of language anymore. I know because I've hung out in New Haven with a few of them and unless they're reading Shakespeare aloud-They use words that everybody else uses.
In my experience, people who speak using old English are trying very hard to hide the fact that they aren't really as educated as they'd like people to think they are. They're trying TOO hard, usually because maybe at one time they got dumped in favor of one of the aforementioned Yale professors (bigger paycheck, status, BMW, etc.) or maybe because they were once window-lickers or whatever.
I know a guy back home who used to tell everybody he was a teacher. Used lotsa fancy, hifalutin' words for horsecrap and was a general cramp in the ass to have a conversation with....Until it was discovered that he was actually a teacher's
aide. Yup. A gofetchit and official snot-rag-carrier/crayon-reconstitutor.
Nice words though, but very unnecessary.
I notice since I've been down here that a lot of people I run into here and in person tend to try to make people think that they're
JUST SO educated.I'd believe 'em, too if it weren't for the pickup with the ladder racks on it that they just stepped out of wearing a tool belt and talkin' like they got half a pig stuck to the roof of their mouths.
As in: "Didihdidihdidihdidih....POWERK!"
Nobody really cares how many ancient words you know... Just-
Speak English or get the %& out of my country.