What's the most pretentious word?

malmo wrote:

Then there's cacaphony, which is used by people who don't know how to say "my f vcking ears hurt!"

mitote - Instead of just saying "that cacophony is all in your head".

Oops. I misread the rules. I was being pretentious, instead of calling it out.

+1 for Organic

Tossers at my work use it at times when referring to the growth or expansion of something.

Harambe is smarter than you wrote:

Harambe wrote:

I'll openly admit that I can't read minds and therefore won't haphazardly ascribe deceptive intent to something as silly as word choice.

Nobody is talking about reading minds except for you, you fool.

Body language and context go a long way to those who do not ignore them such as yourself.

You are either a troll or a fvcking retarded dipshit, probably both.

People come from a wild variety of backgrounds and education. Even local dialects can determine word choice. I simply don't care what words people use as long as I understand them. The English language has over 500,000 words, I refuse to create a subset that is deemed 'acceptable' for everyday use. It's intellectually dishonest to admonish others for word choice. It assumes that you have some higher knowledge of 'correctness' when language has no such concept associated with it.

Alan Bennet wrote:

mitote - Instead of just saying "that cacophony is all in your head".

nope look at the definition here

The “mitote” (me-toe-tay) as described in The Four Agreements, refers to the cacophony of voices in your head. They are all talking but none of them seem to listen.

The mitote is driven by all those false beliefs, self importance, fears, layers of denial and justifications. As you become aware the mitote can appear to be an endless stream of useless chatter talking over itself. Try to turn it off in the beginning and you get a lesson in humility. As you learn to observe it with neutrality, which is a critical step in dissolving the mitote, you find that it often tricks you by pulling your attention into the conversation.

Yes,,, it is a matrix of illusions. But you can keep it all straight when you are aware that the truth is simple, so simple that it doesn’t need words

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This word as used by this group(or author) seems to describe multiple conflicted thoughts or emotions not actual physical sounds.

Other than this cult definition mitote is just the Spanish word for a specific dance.

The word Malmo used

Definition of cacophony

plural

cacophonies

1- harsh or discordant sound

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dissonance 2; specifically

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harshness in the sound of words or phrases

is about how a sound is perceived.

eclectic

jesus effing christ all over dating profiles it like oh wow lets all use the same word to describe our taste in music. give me a effing break. i hate when obscure words like that catch fire and spread over the internet.

malmo wrote:

"Niggardly"

"Opinionated" which means "you disagree with ME?"

"Uncle Tom" which means "I've never actually read Uncle Tom's Cabin"

"Fly-over state" which means "I'm a narrow-minded urban hayseed"

"Eclectic" which is often used incorrectly

"Condign" steeped in pretence.

Pretentious words come and go. There was a time that writers were all compelled to use "tony" at least once in every article. Then it was "peripetic". Then "serendipity" Currently it's "the conversation" which actually means "what liberals think." As mentioned before "bespoke" is getting a lot of play today. Bespoke? STFU!

Then there's cacaphony, which is used by people who don't know how to say "my f vcking ears hurt!"

ha i clicked on page 5 by chance to look to see if anyone else chose eclectic. thank you.

Forgot two, both of them used by Craig Masback in a single sentence during a track meet broadcast (speaking about three Kenyan steeplchasers):

Triumvirate

Hegemony