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katiebarthedoor said:is that french for cumming?
youre fucking real, dude.
Yes; "the little death."
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katiebarthedoor said:is that french for cumming?
youre fucking real, dude.
MechaBlade said:I loathe the need.
rosco rathbone said:This sentiment is the sine qua non of mastery.
I am what passes for a man of letters around this clownhouse.stirbird said:I was just thinking about how you are one of the few people on this board who gets away with using big words (not just multisyllabalic but ones many people have never heard of before) and even foreign phrases all the time and nobody calls you on it. Maybe it's because you only use one or two at most per message?
How would we call him on it?stirbird said:I was just thinking about how you are one of the few people on this board who gets away with using big words (not just multisyllabalic but ones many people have never heard of before) and even foreign phrases all the time and nobody calls you on it. Maybe it's because you only use one or two at most per message?
because he uses them well and nonpretentiously (that's my $5 word).stirbird said:I was just thinking about how you are one of the few people on this board who gets away with using big words (not just multisyllabalic but ones many people have never heard of before) and even foreign phrases all the time and nobody calls you on it. Maybe it's because you only use one or two at most per message?
rosco rathbone said:I am what passes for a man of letters around this clownhouse.
MechaBlade said:How would we call him on it?
Hester said:and they sound purdy.
rosco rathbone said:I am what passes for a man of letters around this clownhouse.
link pls?stirbird said:I was referring to another thread on the GB that is about, as Hester said, "$5.00 words." The thread starter is getting a lot of shit from the anti-intellectuals (including, of course, the anti-intellectual "intellectuals") and so I wondered why Rosco didn't get the same sort of shit when he tossed around his big words.
see, i thought that was perfectly clear.stirbird said:As usual, your explanation mystifies more than it clarifies. :/
SaintPeter said:Your coworkers must think you are from another planet.
stirbird said:By stating that a person who uses big words is
1. Compesating for being an emotional retard
2. Actually not intelligent at all, just pretentious and faking intelligence
or
3. Ought to be shot (TM Matthew Craig, all rights reserved).
stirbird said:By stating that a person who uses big words is
1. Compesating for being an emotional retard
2. Actually not intelligent at all, just pretentious and faking intelligence
or
3. Ought to be shot (TM Matthew Craig, all rights reserved).
There is a difference between using big words to appear as something you are not or something you want to be and using the right word in the right instance. One obfuscates the other illuminates.
What?stirbird said:Well maybe the fact that it's you (all) has something to do with it. Maybe he limits them to this thread that contains friends and admirerers. Or around people too polite to act like spoiled competitive ninnys when someone uses a big word. Except Rosco doesn't (limit the big words to this thread). He'll toss them in anywhere.
Olivianna said:that's precisely why ro can 'get away with it' here. being a construction worker living in queens, one gets to use as many 5-buck words as one wants.
Sounds complicated.ForeverNAlways said:Stirbird, Rosco's word choice is a charming and intricate part of who he is. None of that other stuff you listed applies in his case. That applies to people who have to try to be a Rosco.
Anyway - back to jacks and jills ~ I woke this morning early (not a normal occurrence for me). Played with the idea of getting up then, just to make tomorrow morning a little easier on me ~ then rolled over and promptly dozed back out again. I dreamed about being in my early twenties, being someone else - yet me - and meeting someone. I dreamed about waking up the next morning in his arms ~ and then I really woke up. Aroused.
I laid there for a long time ~ just daydreaming, not touching myself, just dreaming.
It was a poignant jill when I finally got around to it (with my new toy ~ and climaxing hard). I don't want the dream anymore, I want the real thing. And not just the sex.
pinkladyzz11 said:stirbird said:By stating that a person who uses big words is
1. Compesating for being an emotional retard
2. Actually not intelligent at all, just pretentious and faking intelligence
or
3. Ought to be shot (TM Matthew Craig, all rights reserved).
There is a difference between using big words to appear as something you are not or something you want to be and using the right word in the right instance. One obfuscates the other illuminates.
Already covered. See my #2 above. But I'm glad you agree. A problem frequently occurs when (a) people who don't know what the big words mean but are too egotistic to admit that fact even to themselves, let alone look their meanings up or (b) dislike somebody so make the fatal assumption that this person must of course be obfuscating rather than illuminating (called the "I Dislike Therefore They're Stupid" fallacy) falsely accuse them of #2. That's a little of what my original message, of which you quoted just the first part, was about.
Another common problem comes up when people who don't understand certain big words assume obfuscation is always or often the case (this is the "If You Don't Use The Big Words That I, Great Intellect That I Am, Know, Then You Are Obviously A Stupid Person Being Pretentious" principle) , when actually the person writing the words is doing something completely different for reasons that have nothing to do with pretentiousness.
In many cases, such a person is simply having fun playing with their toys. In some cases, the writer is performing an act of self-mockery (for some of us--including Rosco, I have noticed--this is immensely entertaining in itself). Another common reason for the words is to do a performance piece. And before anyone starts in on the "evils" of performance pieces, think of all the various non-big-word sorts of performances that occur on this board on a daily basis. Glass houses, you know? There are some hilarious pot-kettle-black examples of this already in Oscuridad's big words thread. I probably shouldn't name names, but Drown is giving me big giggles at the moment.). And there are many other reasons, besides these, for using whatever someone deems a "large word" that have nothing to do with pretentiousness. Some of us are just not aware that we are using highly rarified terminology, as these are words we encounter on a daily basis. Ever talk to Unix technical operations/network engineer in depth about what he does for a living? Should you perform this little experiment, you'll probably get a perfect example of totally unpretentious speech that is, unless you are equally expert in this field, about 100 times as obscure as anything you'll ever read on Literotica by the most florid of prose-ists.
LOL and oy vey ist mir, I didn't mean to start this tiresome and overdone discussion here. I'm already doing it elswhere! I was just commenting on the fact that it's interesting that Rosco gets away with it, frequently, when other people get razzed by the anti-intellectuals. All joking aside, I think he passes through those critics' nets because he uses such terms judiciously (not a lot of salt in his "dishes--as like many good author/cooks, he understands well what his audience, due to local habits and conditioning, can tolerate) and also because he doesn't play as uncontrivedly with them the way some of us enjoy doing upon occasion.
This is not (and cannot be) a value judgement. Of course, everyone chooses their own hobbies, enjoyments, things to play with. Some people like to play with golf balls, some people prefer boobies, a few like to play with words. So what? Live and let live, you know? I do find it interesting, however, that when somebody clearly and obviously "plays" with words around here, the response in many quarters is similar to that which you might see were they, for instance, playing "dolls" with aborted babies. Where does this overdone reaction come from, anyway?
One final question: if someone is being pretentious and obviously using big words just to show off, why not just chuckle and move on, the way you might with any other form of ridiculousness posted in this forum? (Although, hmm, maybe you don't move on for those other forms, as well?) I personally find such examples of highly selective intoloerance (which, to me, comes awfully close to some of the more vicious prejudices based on race, age, and appearance) rather intoerable. Don't you?
stirbird said:it was difficult, but i did manage to jack off to that.pinkladyzz11 said:Already covered. See my #2 above. But I'm glad you agree. A problem frequently occurs when (a) people who don't know what the big words mean but are too egotistic to admit that fact even to themselves, let alone look their meanings up or (b) dislike somebody so make the fatal assumption that this person must of course be obfuscating rather than illuminating (called the "I Dislike Therefore They're Stupid" fallacy) falsely accuse them of #2. That's a little of what my original message, of which you quoted just the first part, was about.
Another common problem comes up when people who don't understand certain big words assume obfuscation is always or often the case (this is the "If You Don't Use The Big Words That I, Great Intellect That I Am, Know, Then You Are Obviously A Stupid Person Being Pretentious" principle) , when actually the person writing the words is doing something completely different for reasons that have nothing to do with pretentiousness.
In many cases, such a person is simply having fun playing with their toys. In some cases, the writer is performing an act of self-mockery (for some of us--including Rosco, I have noticed--this is immensely entertaining in itself). Another common reason for the words is to do a performance piece. And before anyone starts in on the "evils" of performance pieces, think of all the various non-big-word sorts of performances that occur on this board on a daily basis. Glass houses, you know? There are some hilarious pot-kettle-black examples of this already in Oscuridad's big words thread. I probably shouldn't name names, but Drown is giving me big giggles at the moment.). And there are many other reasons, besides these, for using whatever someone deems a "large word" that have nothing to do with pretentiousness. Some of us are just not aware that we are using highly rarified terminology, as these are words we encounter on a daily basis. Ever talk to Unix technical operations/network engineer in depth about what he does for a living? Should you perform this little experiment, you'll probably get a perfect example of totally unpretentious speech that is, unless you are equally expert in this field, about 100 times as obscure as anything you'll ever read on Literotica by the most florid of prose-ists.
LOL and oy vey ist mir, I didn't mean to start this tiresome and overdone discussion here. I'm already doing it elswhere! I was just commenting on the fact that it's interesting that Rosco gets away with it, frequently, when other people get razzed by the anti-intellectuals. All joking aside, I think he passes through those critics' nets because he uses such terms judiciously (not a lot of salt in his "dishes--as like many good author/cooks, he understands well what his audience, due to local habits and conditioning, can tolerate) and also because he doesn't play as uncontrivedly with them the way some of us enjoy doing upon occasion.
This is not (and cannot be) a value judgement. Of course, everyone chooses their own hobbies, enjoyments, things to play with. Some people like to play with golf balls, some people prefer boobies, a few like to play with words. So what? Live and let live, you know? I do find it interesting, however, that when somebody clearly and obviously "plays" with words around here, the response in many quarters is similar to that which you might see were they, for instance, playing "dolls" with aborted babies. Where does this overdone reaction come from, anyway?
One final question: if someone is being pretentious and obviously using big words just to show off, why not just chuckle and move on, the way you might with any other form of ridiculousness posted in this forum? (Although, hmm, maybe you don't move on for those other forms, as well?) I personally find such examples of highly selective intoloerance (which, to me, comes awfully close to some of the more vicious prejudices based on race, age, and appearance) rather intoerable. Don't you?
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MechaBlade said:well, none of those apply to rosco.