I thought the intelligent readers of letsrun could help some of us with our vocabulary. I mean we have all witnessed the grammar critics across numerous threads on this board. Maybe everyone could share some words that can help us all appear to be a little more intelligent.
I'll start.
mendacious: lying, untruthful
My teammate denied all accusations of doing training outside of practice, but his mendacious tendencies caught up to him when I witnessed him doing a tempo later that night.
I thought this could be a little more productive than learning the average letsrun readers @#%I$ size
stupid words/phrases to pop in typical conversation.
rather
perhaps
on the contrary
discourse
predicated
be that as it may
well versed
permeate
as it were
stupid words/phrases to pop in typical conversation.
rather
perhaps
on the contrary
discourse
predicated
be that as it may
well versed
permeate
as it were
henceforth
irregardless
albeit
Indubitably.
superflous
paradigm
qua
niggardly
irony killed the cat wrote:
irregardless
I heard someone the other day use the word irregardless. Immediately after that, he corrected himself and used the proper word regardless. That is intelligence!!
Poopy....
....just admit it. you chuckled a little.
Nice thread.
If any of you get the chance, please watch Meet the Press this coming Sunday morning and listen to these folks' conversation. I guarantee you, you'll hear the word "fundamental" at least 30 times.
In an attempt to sound intelligent and competent, I'm guessing you just can't go wrong when using this word--very easy to interject into any conversation. Try it.
Nonetheless
It's not what you asked, but one sure way to signal a lack of intelligence is to use a bunch of words which plainly fall outside the domain of your ordinary vocabulary. You might as well try to sound fast by claiming a 12:26 PR.
I get a lot of use out of the following words on LRC, as they are befitting for the population of dullards who frequent this web site:
commiserable, deplorable, distressing, feeble, inadequate, lamentable, paltry, piteous, pitiful, plaintive, poignant, poor, puny, rueful, useless, woeful, worthless, wretched
futile, hopeless, idle, impotent, inadequate, ineffective, inefficient, insufficient, unable, unavailing, unproductive, vain, weak
aimless, banal, devoid, fatuous, frivolous, futile, hollow, inane, ineffectual, insipid, jejune, nugatory, otiose, paltry, unintelligent, unreal, unsatisfactory, unsubstantial, vacuous, valueless, vapid, worthless
Vex, exude, sine qua non, dialectic, vastly, obfuscate, bombast . . .
averagerunerrr wrote:
superflous
Was this the sequel to Superfly?
This thread is superfluous.
i wondered the same thing wrote:
niggardly
my personal favorite.
Will Hunting wrote:
I thought the intelligent readers of letsrun could help some of us with our vocabulary. I mean we have all witnessed the grammar critics across numerous threads on this board. Maybe everyone could share some words that can help us all appear to be a little more intelligent.
I'll start.
mendacious: lying, untruthful
My teammate denied all accusations of doing training outside of practice, but his mendacious tendencies caught up to him when I witnessed him doing a tempo later that night.
The problem with using a word like "mendacious" is that the vast majority of the people who hear you use that word will immediately accuse you of trying to SOUND intelligent. Intelligence is not what speech (or writing) portrays anyway. The words you use and how you use them shows whether or not you are EDUCATED. Someone who is educated uses the same basic words more eloquently than someone who is not. Educated people don't typically use double negatives or say "supposably".