The Big Words Game

[Djmac1031]

Part of the job as a writer is to come up with new, more interesting ways to say things.

And so, we tend to try to spice things up by adding bigger, more complicated/descriptive/flowery words.

And many of us tend to overdo it sometimes. Especially during sex scenes..

I thought it would be fun to make a game of it.

You can participate in a few different ways:

1: post a simple phrase and challenge others to over complicate it using bigger words.

2: post your own overly complicated phrase and challenge us to interpret it.

It can be a common phrase, famous quote, anything really.

I'll start with an example, one of my personal favorites I came up with that I've used as a meme from time to time:

"Bellowing in mirth until my posterior abdicates its position from my nether regions."

The idea is to have fun and be creative with it.

 

[MrPixel]

His bellicosity is only surpassed by his hyperpolysyllabicsequipedalianism.

I win.

 

[Altissimus]

... hyperpolysyllabicsequipedalianism.

I win.

I'm antihyperpolysyllabicsesquipedalianism.

I win.

 

[onehitwanda]

"He's hemidemisemicephalic."
"He's what?"
"Hemidemisemicephalic."
"I have no fucking idea what you mean by that."
"He has one eighth of a brain. Thick as pig shit, basically."
"You're a Gigamoron."
"That's not how it works."

 

[onehitwanda]

I'm antihyperpolysyllabicsequipedalianism.

I win.

You're a quotidien soliphist

 

[Tio_Narratore]

You're a quotidien soliphist

"Smile when you say that, pardner."

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Why say silicosis when you can say pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?

 

[alohadave]

I got you all beat when it comes to long words.

Smiles. There a mile between each s.

 

[Djmac1031]

I got you all beat when it comes to long words.

Smiles. There a mile between each s.

What a cunning linguist.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

What a cunning linguist.

Perhaps, but I'll have you know I studied Linguistics at the City University of New York. I believe I am the only diplomaed CUNY Linguist here at Literotica!

 

[Carnevil9]

I try to never use a big word when a diminutive one will do.

 

[Djmac1031]

I try to never use a big word when a diminutive one will do.

Just keep in mind it's not the magnitude of your verbiage, but whether one avails oneself of them both efficiently and eloquently enough to provide the desired effect upon those engaged in absorbing them.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I would like to add the IUPACC name for Titin, but this margin is too narrow.

Em

 

[MrPixel]

I would like to add the IUPACC name for Titin, but this margin is too narrow.

Quoting Wikipedia on titin: However, lexicographers regard generic names of chemical compounds as verbal formulae rather than English words.

So, no, it won't be a valid word in Scrabble.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Florid writing serves but to denude the loftiest and most elegant inscriptions of all pulchritude, weighing them down with a Satanic millstone and rendering them merely prosaic and pedestrian.

(from my ABCs of good writing for students)

 

[EmilyMiller]

So, no, it won't be a valid word in Scrabble.

We need a bigger set of tiles.

Em

 

[Bamagan]

"He's hemidemisemicephalic."
"He's what?"
"Hemidemisemicephalic."
"I have no fucking idea what you mean by that."
"He has one eighth of a brain. Thick as pig shit, basically."
"You're a Gigamoron."
"That's not how it works."

Damn... I made a hemidemisemi- joke on another thread a couple of hours ago and a couple of hours after you posted this, which I saw just now. Crazy low odds.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

We need a bigger set of tiles.

Em

And different shapes and colors! We could play Tangram Scrabble or even Tessellation Scrabble!

 

[Bamagan]

We need a bigger set of tiles.

Em

The board is only 15 x 15, so you'll either need a bigger one or you'll have to toggle on 'word wrap.'

 

[Tio_Narratore]

The board is only 15 x 15, so you'll either need a bigger one or you'll have to toggle on 'word wrap.'

Bigger set of tiles for more possibilities, not necessarily sesquipedalianism. We could keep the 225 squares, but allow diagonal plays as well as your word wrap (horizontal, vertical, diagonal, or all of the above if we want bigger words).

 

[EmilyMiller]

The board is only 15 x 15, so you'll either need a bigger one or you'll have to toggle on 'word wrap.'

Stack the tiles.

Em

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Stack the tiles.

Em

Yes! Three-dimensional Scrabble! Great idea, Em. Dr. Spock would be proud of you, and definitely looking for you at pon farr.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

How can we even have this discussion, without someone bringing up this clip?

 

[Bamagan]

Stack the tiles.

Em

I used to love playing Scrabble. But one time I was playing with a friend who took advantage of a triple letter on the edge, despite knowing that it would give me a chance at either of the triple word scores in the corner or middle edge. I wound up taking them both with a bingo, which resulted in x9 scoring. That was basically the last time that person ever talked to me.
(To be fair, I pulled shit like that a lot, if not to that degree, so it was more of a 'last straw' situation than it might seem.)